In Bohemia and Prague, a unit of dry capacity used for cereals, about 93.5829
liters, stricken measure.
In heaped measure, 107.6 liters. It was
sometimes called a Scheffel.
In Regensburg (the former Ratisbon, in Bavaria), a unit of dry capacity used for flour and meal, about 26.66 liters.
Doursther, 1840, page 509.
In Bohemia, a unit of land area, = 800 square Klafter, about 2877.32 square meters. It was half the size of a Lower Austrian Joch. In concept a seed measure of land, the amount of land that would be sown with a Strich of seed.
In Germany, a unit of length = 1 millimeter.
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