Rahel (unit)

The Rahel , also Rachel, was a Viennese square measure and found its special application in the measurement of vineyards and vineyards .

The measure named as Little or Ordinary Rachel was

• 1 Rachel / Rachel = 1 eighth = 400 square fathoms = 14.38936 ares

The great Rachel was 600 square fathoms, or 21.58404 ares

• 2 Rahel = ¼ vineyard = ½ yoke = 12 pounds

The pound here meant 66 ⅔ square fathoms or 1/24 yoke, which corresponded to 2.398227 ares.

• Rachel had six pounds and nine pounds

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratio. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, pp. 1461, 1891.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 472.