Ropes
The Thaue , more rarely ropes, was a regional German area measure and was used as a pasture and meadow measure. Thau was the name given to an area that a mower could cut in a day. It was a so-called daily work measure.
- 1 rope = 1 ½ Juchart = ¾ acres = about 2400 square meters
- 4 Thauen = 3 acres (1 Rhineland morning = 3,176 m 2 )
literature
- Carl Christian Adolph Neuenhahn, Justus Ludwig Günther Leopold: Instructions for agricultural trade. Volume 1, Georg Adam Keyser, Erfurt 1806, p. 41
- 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. 363