Distance (unit)
The route was a German area measure in road construction. The size of pavement was determined by an area of 6 rods or 72 feet in length and ½ rod or 6 feet in width. The underlying rods are the Rhineland ones.
- 1 route = 3 square rods (= 14.185 square meters) = about 42.56 square meters
literature
- Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 355
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Heinrich Ludwig Bergius: New police and camera magazine according to alphabetical order. Volume 2, MG Weidmanns Erben and Reich., Leipzig 1776, p. 108