Ton land
Tonland ( tons of land or tonne of land ) also Tonstelle Finnish Tynnyrinmaa or Tynnyrinala , Swedish Tunnland , Danish Tønde land and Norwegian Tønne or Tønneland was an old area measure that was mainly used in Scandinavia. The word "ton land" in the various languages describes how much a measure ton filled with seeds, distributed over arable land, represents a measurable area. In individual countries, the information on the size of the measuring barrel and the area involved differ in some cases.
- 1 ton land = 0.49364 hectares
See also
literature
- St. Petersburg Calendar. P. 117
- Velle Espeland (2006): "Åtte potter rømme, fire merker smør - Om gammalt mål og gammal vekt" - Språknytt, No. 4/2006, p. 10.
- August Petermann, Ernst Behm, Alexander Supan, Paul Max Harry Langhans, Nikolaus Creutzburg, Hermann Haack: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Volume 14; Publisher H. Haak. 1868 Google Books
- Tunnel land . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 30 : Tromsdalstind – Urakami . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1920, Sp. 340 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- tunnland - tynnyrinala in Ruotsalais-suomalainen sanakirja: Svensk-finsk ordbok
Web links
- Units of measurement in Pieni Tietosanakirja / III. Masku - Sanomalehti
- Ton land . (PDF) riksarkivet.se, user manual for digital source output - GEORG database - older geometric maps 1630–1655
- Old systems of measurement. (Finnish) palvelut.virtuaaliyliopisto.fi
- Tønne ( Tønne land ) in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Tønde ( Tønde land ) in Dansk biografisk leksikon (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Justus Perthes: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' geographical institute about important new researches in the total area of geography . Volume 14, Volume 17. 1868 Google Books
- ↑ Schleswig-Holstein: a statistical-geographical-topographical representation of these duchies according to printed and unprinted sources . Statistics of both duchies: with 26 tables, Volume 1, Google Books
- ^ Carl Gustaf af Forsell, Albert G. Freese: Statistics of Sweden, according to public documents . 1835, 366 pp., Google Books
- ↑ Tonstelle on sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de
- ↑ Suomenmaan Virallinen Tilasto. (PDF) Doria.fi (Finnish) accessed on September 3, 2013
- ↑ Suvianna Seppälä: Grain, Skins, Dried Fish. Crown Taxes Paid By Peasants In Finland During The Years 1539-1609 . Academia.edu, p. 195 (Finnish). Retrieved September 3, 2013