Loket (unit)

Czech Elle, plaque at the town hall in Litomyšl

Loket was a measure of length in Bohemia , Moravia , the Prague region and Silesia . The measure corresponded to the cubit .

• in the 17th century 1 Loket = 24 Palců / inch = 0.5914 meters
  • 1 Palec = 12 Čárska / line (1 Č. = 0.00219 meters) = 0.0246 meters
  • 3 lokty / cubit = 1 sáh / fathom = 1.7742 meters
  • 4 lokty / cubit = 1 latro / lachter = 2.3656 meters
  • 52 Loktů = 1 Provazec = 30.7528 meters
• in the 19th century 1 Loket = 0.777 meters

literature

• Edward Wight Washburn : International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology. Volume 1. Mc Graw-Hill, New York 1926, p. 4.
• Šefců Ondřej: Architektura: Lexikon architektonických prvků a stavebního řemesla. Grada Publishing, Prague 2012, ISBN 978-80-247-7689-7 , p. 244.