In 1816, king Frederick William III of Prussia adopted the Danish mile at 7,532 m (24,711 ft), or 24,000 Prussian feet. Also known as "(Dänische/Preußische) Landmeile". Prohibited by law in 1908.Ģ4,000 Prussian feet. 'imperial mile' – New mile when the metric system was introduced. After the introduction of the metric system in the 19th century, the Landmeile was generally fixed at 7,500 m (24,606 ft) (the Reichsmeile), but before then there were many local and regional variants (of which some are shown below):Ĭonnected to a 1⁄ 15 equatorial degree as 25,406 Bavarian feet. A common German mile, land mile, or post mile ( Gemeine deutsche Meile, Landmeile, Postmeile) was defined in various ways at different places and different times. An elle of textile material brought in Frankfurt would get you 54.7 cm of cloth, in Mainz 55.1 cm, in Nuremberg 65.6 cm, in Freiburg 53.5 cm.” Length Meile (mile) Ī German geographic mile ( geographische Meile) is defined as 1⁄ 15 equatorial degrees, equal to 7,420.54 m (24,345.6 ft). “.the measure of cloth, for example, was elle which in each region stood for a different length. Supposedly by 1810 there were 112 different standards for the Elle around Germany. For example, the front wall of the old city hall of Rudolstadt (still standing) has two marks which show the “Rudolstädter Elle”, the proper length of the Elle in that city. Often towns posted local definitions on a wall of the city hall. Some obsolete German units have names similar to units that were traditionally used in other countries, and that are still used in a limited number of cases in the United Kingdom ( imperial units) and fully in the United States ( United States customary units).īefore the introduction of the metric system in German, almost every town had its own definitions of the units shown below. The metric system became compulsory on 1 January 1872, in Germany and on 1 January 1876, in Austria. For example, some customers ask for one pound ( ein Pfund) of something when they want 500 grams. Some of these units are still used in everyday speech and even in stores and on street markets as shorthand for similar amounts in the metric system.
The obsolete units of measurement of German-speaking countries consist of a variety of units, with varying local standard definitions.
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