Matt (unit)

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The matt , also called mat, was an old, large measure of area and stood for the measure of great acres . There was also small morning (small morning had 200 square rods) or grazing . Both measures were primarily used in the Jever rule . In detail:

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 mate = 1½ grazing = 3 hundred = 300 square rods = 4292 square meters
  • 1 grazing = 200 square rods of 14 × 14 rhineland. Feet = 36.633 Parisian square feet = 272½ rhineland. Square rods
  • Polder or Grodenland 1 Matt = 120 square rods = 1716.8 square meters (large acres)

Polder - or Grodesland was diked land reclaimed from the sea. Examples are Schillinger Groden (signed 1542), Dovensfelder Groden (signed 1551), Schillinger Groden (signed 1569) and Neufelder Groden (signed 1574). The last dammed land had 360 grazes.

The rod was calculated here with 14 Rhineland feet . But 18 or 20 Rhineland feet per rod were also common, which showed significant differences when surveying the field.

literature

  • Friedr. Alb. Niemann (di: Johann Friedrich Krüger ): Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. For merchants, bankers, money changers, coin collectors, trading schools, state officials, artists, travelers, newspaper readers, and everyone who is concerned with knowledge of nationalities and countries or who want to apply the regulations in the works of foreign countries to the arts and sciences. In alphabetical order. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg a. a. 1830, pp. 115, 185.
  • Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist. Volume 1: Which of the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. The fifth or fourth time improved and considerably enlarged new edition. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 294.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 374.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Kohli: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg including the inheritance of Jever, and the two principalities of Lübeck and Birkenfeld. Volume 1, Wilhelm Kaiser, Bremen 1824, pp. 165, 202
  2. ^ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight for bankers and merchants. Fourteenth edition. In the Sandersche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 180.