Juchart

The one or more Juchart ( also Jucharte or Juchard ) was in Switzerland until the early 20th century, in the agricultural vernacular to this day, in use Size of land. It is called in other German-speaking areas yoke Yoke type, Jauchart, Jauch, itching or Juckert and twice the one north and central Germany in the morning or the Bavarian day's work. A Juchart designated typically the size of a plowed in one day piece of farmland. With the pose Juchard in the Canton of Vaud has been called and the values ​​were:

Different size

Since landmass mostly based on estimates of work processes, a Juchart was not always the same size. It arrived on the location of the measured piece of land.

If a Juchart defined on the basis of a fully performed in a day's work, the Juchart varies depending on the terrain. In the midlands, the unit of arable land lay from 27 to 36 Aren, in areas with predominantly cereal was a Juchart 32-36 arene, with predominantly meadow land 27 to 34 acres.

The hilly and steep the country, the smaller the Juchart. In viticulture mass of Juchart between three and four acres.

However, the size of a Juchart also depended strongly on the local use. Even at a few kilometers distance, significant differences could arise between otherwise similarly structured settlements. For example, in a mass Emperor chair Juchart 36.09 Aren, in Zurzach only 32.41 acres.

Unification with Swiss Concordat of 1835

With the Concordat establishing a common Swiss weights and measures order of 17 August 1835 metric system was in some cantons of the then Federal States introduced and the old units on simple relations to this. Here, the Juchart was, with effect from 1836, set to exactly 36 acres. Valid the Concordat was mainly in German-speaking cantons: Zurich, Lucerne, Glarus, train, Fribourg, Solothurn, Basel (city and country), Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Aargau and Thurgau.

Conceptual history and derived proper names

For this surface measure various names such as Jauch or Juchart derive. The latter name is in southern Styria and today's northern Slovenia - still relatively common, however, to find in Germany only sporadically - in formerly predominantly German-speaking areas. It is believed that the name of the settlement policy of Maria Theresa in the former " Lower Styria " related, where the (probably mostly from southern Germany being) one or more settlers Tagwerke ( = Jucharten ) land was promised.