Wente (unit)

The Wente was a measure of area in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . The measure depended on the seed rate of grain .

• 1 wente = 9 bushels of oat seeds , about 55 ares
• 1 acre (Oldenburg) = 6 hunte = 18 bushels = 356 square rods (old)

The dimensional chain was

• 1 acre (Oldenburg) = 2 2/9 wente = 6 hunte = 350 square rods (old) = 122.56 ares (= 122.5714 ares)

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 778.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moses Heinemann: The well-trained clerk and businessman. Verlag Wilhelm Schüppel, Berlin 1834, p. 280.
2. ^ Wilhelm Hoffmann: General encyclopedia for merchants, manufacturers, business people, commercial, industrial, commercial and secondary schools. Or a complete dictionary on trade, factories, manufactures, arts and crafts, ... Volume 2, Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1848, p. 379.
3. ^ Oscar Mothes: Illustrated Building Lexicon. Volume 2 (F – M), Verlagbuchhandlung Otto Spamer, Leipzig / Berlin 1866, p. 493.