Forest step

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The forest step was a measure of length for hunters and was used to measure the forest. The purpose of this step measure and the region of distribution of the measure cannot be clearly determined. The hunters probably made the nets and fences with the small measure or hung cloths for the hunt according to this measure. The forest cut , the same length of 2½ feet , probably had the same use by the hunters.

  • 1 forest step = 2 ½ feet (Nürnberger)
  • Bern : 1 step in the forest = 3 feet = 0.8798 meters
    • '1 cut of forest = 2 ½ feet
  • Kingdom of Hanover : 1 forest step = 2 ½ feet (Calenberger)
    • 6 steps in the forest = 1 rod (Osnabrück)

literature

  • Johann Ferdinand Roth : Non-profit lexicon for readers of all classes, especially for those who have not studied: or short and clear explanation of the idioms, expressions and made-up words used in oral conversations and in written essays, in alphabetical order. Volume 1, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, Halle 1807, p. 560.
  • Encyclopaedic dictionary or alphabetical explanation of all words from foreign languages ​​that are accepted in German: as well as all art expressions common in the sciences, the arts and crafts. Via to zymotechnie. Volume 10, Wilhelm Webel, Zeitz / Naumburg 1803, p. 72.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Stinglwagner , Ilse Haseder , Reinhold Erlbeck: Das Kosmos Wald- und Forstlexikon. Kosmos Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-44015-524-0 , p. 950.
  2. ^ A b Christian Ludolph Reinhold : Geometreia Fornsis or the art of measurement applied to law, which contains the legal, the Cammeralistic and the economic. Part 2, Verlag Philipp Heinrich Perrenon, Münster / Osnabrück 1781, p. 83.