Stick (unit)

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The stabel , also Bergstabel or just stabl , was a measure of length in the southern German and Austrian salt mines . The measure could be divided to eighths.

1 stick = 300 fathoms (Wiener = 1.8965 meters) = 568.95 meters

literature

Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence. Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871, p. 458.