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Joch [German]

In Lower Austria, a unit of land area. Article 4 of the law¹ establishing the metric system in Austria specified that the niederösterrisches Joch was equivalent to 5,754.642 square meters (about 1.422 acres). Literally, “yoke” (of oxen), originally the amount of land that could be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen.

		Joch
	Metze	3
square Klafter	533 1/3	1,600
3.597 sq. m	1918.21 sq. m	5754.64 sq. m

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 Österreich.
Volume 13 of Taschenausgabe de österreichischen Gesetze.
Vienna: Munz'sche k. u. k. Hof- Verlags- und Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1900.