Street rod

The street rod , occasionally also construction and street rod , was a German measure of length and was used in the Kingdom of Saxony . A definition for the street route was made on April 23, 1869. The measure was the basis of the square route street measure .

• 1 street rod = 16 feet (Leipziger) = 8 cubits (Leipziger) = 4.531 meters

The Leipzig foot was calculated as 125.537 Paris lines , which corresponded to a length of 0.28319 meters.

The area of ​​the street square rod was 20.53 square meters .

literature

Felix Blocken: The new dimensions and weights in tables and illustrations with all legal provisions for Bavaria. R. Forchthammer, Regensburg 1871, p. 293.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statistical Office of the Min. Of the Interior: State Handbook for the Free State of Saxony. C. Heinrich, Dresden 1870, p. XLIV.
2. ^ Oscar Mothes: Illustrirtes Bau-Lexikon. Volume 2, Verlagbuchhandlung Otto Spamer, Leipzig / Berlin 1866, p. 494.