Landmesser's cubit

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The Landmesser-Elle was a measure of length for measuring country estates in the Russian Liefland and Courland . It was different from the Riga Elle , because it was only 537.99 millimeters long .

The Landmesser-Elle measure was valid from 1804 and was incorrectly referred to as "Swedish Elle". From 1822 the measure became legal.

Length measure

In 1822 the measure changed

  • 1 surveyor cubit = 270.2283 Parisian lines = 609.58 millimeters
  • 1 measuring chain / chain = 25 land knife cubits = 50 feet (Russian and English)

Area measure

If this surveyor cubit in the square was used as a field measure, then in 1822 corresponded

  • 400 surveyor squares = 1 cap / cap = 1.4846 ares
  • 10,000 land knife squares = 25 caps = 1 new loof place = 37.1599 ares

The old Loofstelle from 1804 was 37.4544 ares, i.e. 0.2945 ares larger. Zur Tonn (en) stelle, already in law in 1815, also as a measure of area for arable land, was on the condition that a cap with 400 Landmesser squares was required

  • 1804: 1 old ton (s) place = 35 caps = 52.4361 ares
  • 1822: 1 new ton (s) place = 35 caps = 14,000 Landmesser-quadratellen = 52.0238 ares

literature

  • Anton Wach: Non-profit building advisor for all work and material calculations in the building sector, Verlag Friedrich. Lempsky, Prague 1863, p. 433.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1849, p. 1013.
  2. August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 63.