Forest foot

The forest foot was a length measure and a measure used for forestry only to measure wood. The measure was also the basis for square forest feet . The measure applied in the Principality of Saxony-Koburg and Gotha with its capital Gotha and in Trier . This forest foot in Gotha was originally the same as the Leipzig factory shoe.

• Gotha 1 forest foot = 125.3 Paris lines = 0.282655 meters
• Trier 1 forest foot = 137.4 Parisian lines = 309.95 millimeters

Here the factory shoe had 130.22 Parisian lines and 293.75 millimeters.

• Trier 1 Waldklafter = 12 Waldfuß = 1648.8 Paris lines = 3.72 meter
• Hildburghausen 1 forest foot = 127.5 Parisian lines = 0.28762 meters
• Saxony-Koburg 1 forest foot = 1 Rhineland foot

See also

• Room foot

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 302.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 371.