“Stunde” is also the German word for “hour,” and a Stunde is in principle the distance a person can walk in 1 hour.
| Switzerland | 19th - early 20th century | 4.8 kilometers. |
| Bavaria | 3.7075 km, 2.304 miles | |
| Bohemia | 2.878 miles | |
| westphalia | 3.454 miles | |
| Baden | 2.76 miles |
Latimer Clark.
A Dictionary of Metric and Other Useful Measures.
London: E & F.N. Spon, 1891.
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