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Juchart [German, Dutch]

Various units of land area, in concept the amount of land a team of oxen could plow in a day. Also Jauchart, Juchert, Jauchert. See also Joch.

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In Switzerland, a unit of land area = 400 square Ruthen = 3600 square meters (about 0.89 acres). This was the legal definition from 17 August 1848 (when 11 cantons, mostly German-speaking, signed the Koncordat über eine gemeinsame schweizerische Mass- und Gewichtsordnung), later extended on to all of Switzerland on 13 March 1851. By a law of 1875 (effective 1877), Switzerland adopted the metric system, replacing the Juchart with the are.

Prior to the Concordat, cantons usually had their own values, for example: (Notice that the Ruthe itself varied)

Locale	Used for or name of unit	Equivalents	Area sq. meters
Bern	woods	= 450 sq. Ruthen	3870.01
	open fields	= 400 sq. Ruthen	3440.00
	gardens	= 360 sq. Ruthen	3096.00
	pastures	= 350 sq. Ruthen	3010.00
	small pastures	= 320 sq. Ruthen	2752.00
	smallest Juchart	= 312½ sq. Ruthen	2687.50
Fribourg		= 500 Werklafter = 50000 sq. pied	4300.01
Lausanne, Vaud		Please see pose.	4500.00
Lucerne	grand		3635.52
Lucerne	petit		2524.66
Zurich	land	= 400 sq. Ruthen	3600.61
	gardens	= 360 sq. Ruthen	3240.55
	vineyards	= 320 sq. Ruthen	2880.49

1. Doursther, page 180.

2. Noback

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In Bolzano (Bozen) and Tyrol generally, = 1000 square Klafter = 36000 square Viennese Fuss, 3599.57 sq. meters.

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In Amsterdam, = ½ morgen = 300 square roede = 50700 square voet, about 4063.57 square meters. (Doursther)