Post office (unit)

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Poststation was called a Bavarian measure of length, which in the Palatinate was only allowed to be used in retail and private trade since 1812. Under the definition that one meter was equal to 3.425 old Bavarian feet , the following applied:

  • 1 post station = 2 post miles = 50,812 old Bavarian feet = 14,830 meters
    • 1 post mile = 2 post hours = 25,406 old Bavarian feet = 7,414 meters
    • 1 post hour = 12,703 old Bavarian feet = 3707 meters

literature

  • Sebastian Haindl : Machines for road, hydraulic and bridge construction, commercial, factory, agricultural and military, then mining and steelworks. Volume 1, Wolf'schen Buchdruckerei, Munich 1849, p. XXVI