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In Bohemia, a unit of length, = 3 Bohemian Ellen, about 474.1680 centimeters. 
In Switzerland, the Konkordat of 1835, agreed to by 12 cantons, made the Ruthe = 10 Fuss = 3 meters.
The Ruthe was widely used as a land measure, primarily in German-speaking areas. Below are some values recorded in the 19ᵗʰ century. (Warning: Every pied on this list needs to be checked to see if it was really a Fuss.)
| Location | Equivalents | Value (meters) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Aix-la-Chapelle | = 16 pied d'arpentage | 4.511658 | |
| Ansbach | = 12 pieds | 3.597596 | |
| Augsburg | = 10 pieds, Bavarian legal perch | 2.918592 | |
| Baden | = 10 pieds | 3.00000 | |
| Basel | = 10 pieds | 3.04536 | |
| Bavaria | = 10 Fuss | 2.91859 | |
| Berlin | = 12 pied | 3.766242 | |
| Bremen | = 16 Fuss (of Bremen) | 4.6297 | |
| Breslau (now Wroclaw) | = 15 pieds | 4.319349 | |
| Brunswick | = 16 pieds | 4.565798 | |
| Carlsruhe | = 10 pieds | 3.000000 | |
| Celle (Hannover) | = 16 Hannover pied | 4.671912 | |
| Creveld | = 16 Fuss of Köln | 4.601600 | |
| Danzig (now Gdańsk) | = 15 pieds | 4.303276 | |
| Dresden | = 16 pieds | 4.529705 | |
| Emden (Hannover) | = 12 rheinische Fuss | 3.766242 | |
| Erfurt | = 14 pieds | 3.963492 | |
| Halle an der Saale | = 10 pieds d'arpentage | 4.329500 | |
| Hamburg | Geestland-ruthe or Geestruthe, = 16 Fuss | 4.583845 | |
| Marschland-ruthe or Marschruthe, = 14 Fuss |
4.010864 | ||
| Hannover | = 16 Fuss | 4.671912 | |
| Hildesheim (Hannover) | = 16 pieds | 4.482784 | |
| Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) |
= 15 pieds | 4.615426 | |
| Lausanne | = 10 pieds | 3.000000 | x |
| Leipzig | = 16 pieds | 4.522486 | |
| Lübeck | = 16 Fuss | 4.606403 | |
| Lüneburg | = 16 Hannover Fuss | 4.671912 | |
| Munich | = 10 Fuss | 2.918592 | |
| Nassau | = 10 pieds d'arpentage, after 1818 | 5.000000 | |
| Nuremberg | = 16 pieds | 4.861763 | |
| Oldenburg | new measure = 18 Fuss | 5.335487 | |
| old measure = 20 Fuss | 5.928319 | ||
| East Frisia | = 12 rheinische Fuss | 3.766242 | |
| Pomerania | = 16 pied | 4.674078 | |
| Prussia | = 12 Prussian Fuss | 3.766242 | |
| Rostock | = 16 pieds | 4.606403 | |
| Stettin | = 16 pieds | 4.561106 | |
| Strasbourg | = 10 pied de ville | 4.656031 | |
| Stuttgart | = 10 Württemberger Fuss. earlier = 16 Fuss, when the Fuss = 12 Zoll and the Zoll = 12 Linien |
2.8649 | N1191 |
| Sweden, Stockholm | = 16 fots | 4.749874 | |
| Vienna | Ingenieur-Ruthe = 10 Fuss (1 Fuss = 10 Decimalzoll = 100 Decimallinien) | 3.161026 | N1459 |
| Wiesbaden | Feldruthe = 10 Feldschuhe | 5.00 | N1486, 1489 |
| = 10 Fuss (1 Fuss = 0.3 m | |||
| Weimar | after 1809, = 10 Decimalfuss, for measuring land, and = 16 ordinary Fuss (of Weimar) |
4.511658 | N1378 |
| Württemberg | = 10 Württemberger Fuss | 2.8649 | |
| Zurich | = 10 Fuss | 3.000253 | N1523 |
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