Ripe (unit)

Reif was a German measure of length in Goslar . In various places, frost was another name for the fathoms in the firewood trade . It was the length of the circumference of a bundle of wood. In North German the term stood for the measure of Reep .

In the canvas trade, frost was only used as a measure of length in Goslar. Although every place used a different yardstick for the yardstick , here the yardstick of the Kingdom of Hanover should serve to understand the size of the yardstick .

The cubit was included in the calculation

• 1 cubit = 2 feet = 258.9689 Parisian lines = 0.5842 meters .
• 1 hoop = 10 cubits = 5.842 meters

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 278.
• Johann Christoph Adelung: Excerpt from the grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 3, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1801, p. 1039.
• Theodor Heinsius: Folk dictionary of the German language. Volume 3, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1820, p. 1119
• Christian August Heyse: Concise dictionary of the German language. Volume 2, Wilhelm Heinrichshofen. Magdeburg 1849, p. 488.
• Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 228.