Oldenburg Police Mile
The Oldenburg police mile was a German measure of length. It was valid in the rule of Jever , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , Delmenhorst , Bremen and Hamburg . Reference was made to the Oldenburg foot or the Oldenburger Elle . In the regions, the Jever foot, Hamburger foot, Bremen cubit and Prussian or Rhineland cubit were valid. The size was determined by a ducal law of September 1, 1794.
- 1 Oldenburg police mile = 1500 rods = 30,000 feet (Oldenburg) = 1.1963 mile (German) = 8876.37 meters
The Oldenburg foot can be set at 131.162 Paris lines or 0.295879 meters. The simple Oldenburg mile was a bit larger and with 1 ⅓ German mile (German) was around 9870 meters.
- 1 Oldenburg mile = 33,357 feet (Oldenburg) = 9,869.6 meters
The same applied to the smaller post mile
- 1 post mile / geographic mile = 25,079.53 feet (Oldenburg) = 7,423.63.4 meters (25,077.34 feet (Oldenburg) 7,419.86 meters other source)
literature
- Friedrich Noback : General Börsen- u. Account book: Contains the entire stock, fund, monetary system, bills of exchange and Bid rates, exchange law, measures, weights, usages, etc. Appendix: Telegraph, postal u. Insurance. Volume 3, Adolf Gumprecht, Leipzig 1862, p. 29.
- 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, p. 201.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noback: General Börsen- u. Account book: Contains the entire stock, fund, monetary system, bills of exchange and Bid rates, exchange law, measures, weights, usages, etc. Appendix: Telegraph, postal u. Insurance. Volume 3, Adolf Gumprecht, Leipzig 1862, p. 29.