In Lower Austria, a unit of length used to measure the height of horses, = 4 Zoll. Article 4 of the law1 establishing the metric system in Austria specified that the Faust was equivalent to 10.53602 centimeters.
1. Gesetz of 23 July 1871, R.G.B 1872, No. 16. The law is reproduced in
Georg Thaa.
Das Mass- und Gewichtwesen und der Richdienst in �sterreich.
Volume 13 of Taschenausgabe de �sterreichischen Gesetze.
Vienna: Munz'sche k. u. k. Hof- Verlags- und Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1900.
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