Swiss foot

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The Swiss foot was standardized and metrically defined in 1835/1838 by the intercantonal concordat on a common Swiss system of measures and weights ; at the same time the conventional duodecimal system was replaced by the decimal system . This Swiss footing was in place until the end of 1876.

Before the Concordat (and even after its introduction) there were numerous different foot sizes. Generally, the foot was divided into 12 inches by 12 lines and these again into 12 lines .

Kanton Aargau
  • City of Aarau 1 foot = 133 Paris lines = 0.30003 meters (The Bern and Vienna feet also counted here .)
  • Bathing 1 foot = 1 Zurich foot
  • Brugg 1 foot = 1 Berner foot
  • Laufenburg 1 foot = 1 Viennese foot
  • Lenzburg 1 foot = 1 Bernese foot
  • Rheinfelden 1 foot = 1 Viennese foot
  • Zurzach 1 foot = 1 Zurich foot
Canton of Appenzell
  • 1 foot = 1 Prussian foot = 139.5 Paris lines = 0.314688 meters
Canton of Basel
  • 1 foot (factory shoe) = 12 inches = 135 Parisian lines = 0.30454 meters
Canton Bern
  • 1 foot = 12 inches = 144 lines = 130 Parisian lines = 0.2933 meters
  • 1 stone crusher foot = 140.8623 Paris lines = 0.3177 meters
Canton of Friborg
  • 1 foot = 12 inches = 130 Parisian lines = 0.293258 meters (= 1 Bernese foot / shoe)
Canton of Geneva
  • 1 foot = 216.3 Paris lines = 0.4879 meters
Canton of Glarus
  • 1 foot = like canton Zurich
canton of Grisons
  • 1 foot (Chur) = 133 Paris lines = 0.300 meters
Canton lucerne
  • 1 foot = 12 inches = 139.13 Parisian lines = 1 Prussian foot (for wood and hay mass)
  • 1 stone shoe or stone foot = 126 Parisian lines = 0.2842 meters (for building and field measurements)
Canton of Neuchâtel
  • 1 foot / Landfuss / Pied du pays = 12 inches = 144 lines = 1728 points = 130 Parisian lines = 1 foot (Berner or Freiburg) = 0.2932579 meters
  • 1 foot / Pied du champ / field foot = 127.292 Parisian lines = 0.2871479 meters = 47/48 land feet
Canton of St. Gallen
  • 1 foot = 12 inches = 144 lines = 136⅓ Paris lines = 0.30754 meters
Canton of Schaffhausen
  • 1 foot = 132.045 Paris lines = 0.29787 meters
Canton of Schwyz
  • 1 foot = like canton Zurich
Canton of Solothurn
  • 1 foot = like Canton Bern (ordinance of May 31, 1424)
Canton of Ticino
  • 1 foot / Brazetto = 221.648 Parisian lines = 0.5 meters
Canton of Thurgau
  • 1 foot = like canton Appenzell
Canton of Unterwalden
  • 1 foot (general) = like Lucerne
  • 1 city foot (old Lucerne) = 126 Paris lines = 0.2842345 meters (stone breakers and bricklayers)
  • 1 foot (Lucerne carpenter) / shoe = 134.6999 Parisian lines = 0.30386 meters (corresponds to the Nuremberg foot)
  • 1 foot (Parisian) = 144 Parisian lines = 0.32484 meters (carpenter, locksmith)
Canton of Uri
  • 1 foot = like Zurich
Canton of Valais
  • 1 foot = like Vaud
Canton of Vaud
  • 1 foot = 10 inches = 100 lines = 1000 lines = 132.9888 Parisian lines = 0.30 meters
Canton of Zug
  • 1 foot = like Zurich
Canton Zurich
  • 1 foot = 12 inches = 144 lines = 133.6005 Paris lines = 0.30138 meters

literature

  • Anne-Marie Dubler: Measures and weights in the state of Lucerne and in the old Swiss Confederation. Lucerne 1975.
  • Anne-Marie Dubler: Measures and Weights. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Hans Kläui, Otto Sigg: History of the municipality of Zell. Zurich 1983 (for Zurich).
  • Carl LW Aldefeld: The dimensions and weights of the German customs union states and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relationships. J. W. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1838, p. 244.
  • Anton Wach: Non-profit building councilor for all work and material calculations in the building sector. Friedrich Lempsky, Prague 1863, p. 450.
  • Harald Witthöft: Johann Christian Nelkenbrechers pocket book of a banker and businessman. St. Katharinen 2003, ISBN 3-89590-142-3 .

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