Oldenburg Police Mile

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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

  1. ^ 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.