Rasta (unit)
The Rasta was a Germanic measure of length. It was the largest measure and was in the range of today's miles . The measure, like the leuge, existed alongside the current Roman measure.
The dimensional chain was:
- 1 Rasta = 2 hours = 3 miles (Roman) = 24 stages = 120 Juctus = 125 Juchart (Gallic) = 277 rods (of the St. Germain monastery) = 833 rods (1 Carolingian row = 18 feet) = 1,500 rods ( Roman) = 3,000 double steps (passus dextrus) = 6,000 steps (gressus) = 10,000 cubits = 15,000 feet = 60,000 insteps = 240,000 inches (fingers) = 4,444 meters (or 4,400 meters)
The Rasta is roughly like a French Lieue .
literature
- Max Wirth: German history from the earliest times to the present. Volume 1, Verlag der Expedition des employers, Frankfurt / Main 1862, p. 329.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Johannes Hoops: Landscape Law - Loxstedt. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 978-311016-950-8 , p. 299.