Rhineland foot
The Rhineland foot , also referred to as the Rhenish foot or Prussian foot , was a German measure of length. The foot was divided duodecimally , that is, it was 12 inches by 12 lines . Many historical measures of length have been compared with the Rhineland foot. The term Rheinischer Fuß was also used as a coin foot measure. The measure was not the same everywhere. The Rhineland rod was also reckoned to be 11 feet plus 7 inches plus 1 14/25 lines, giving a foot length of 313.7502 millimeters .
- 1 Rhineland foot = 139.13 Parisian lines = 313.8535 millimeters
- 12 Rhineland feet = 1 Rhineland rod = 1669.5 Parisian lines = 3.766 meters
- 1 meter = 3.187249 Rhineland feet
The dimensional chain was
- 1 Rhineland rod = 12 Rhineland feet = 144 Rhineland inches = 1728 Rhineland lines = 20736 Rhineland scruples
The length measure for surface area and room size served as the basis. The dimensional chain for these two dimensional groups was similar, except that everything is square for the area and cubic for the room.
literature
- Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 14, Altenburg 1862, p. 109.
- Carl Ludwig Heinrich Rabe: Collection of Prussian laws and ordinances, which refer to the general depositary order, to the general land law, to the appendix to the general land law and to the general court order, to the landscape credit regulations and to provincial and statutory rights to have. Volume 11, Bookstore of the Halle Orphanage, Halle 1823, S. LIV.
- Benhard Wittstock: Legal and administrative regulations of the Prussian property tax cadastre 1820-1945 . Berlin 2001.