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Stunde [German]

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A unit of itinerant distance. “Stunde” is also the German word for “hour,” and a Stunde is in principle the distance a person can walk in 1 hour.

Locale	Equivalents	Kilometers
Switzerland	= 16000 Fuss	4.8
Bavaria (Wegstunde, Poststunde, before 1846	= 12703 Fuss	3.7075
Bohemia		4.632
Westphalia		5.559
Baden		4 4/9
Deutsches Reich and Austria, for maps		4.8
Hesse-Kassel		4 4/9
Northwest Germany	about ½ Meile	3.710
Saxony	= 8000 Dresder Ellen	4.530400
Saxe-Gotha	= 1100 Feldruten	4.429320

Jansen (1900) page xxxv.

Latimer Clark.
A Dictionary of Metric and Other Useful Measures.
London: E & F.N. Spon, 1891.

A unit of plane angle = 15 degrees (24 of which make 360 degrees, thus the Stunde is the number of degrees through which the Earth turns in an hour).