Jugerum

The yoke is a traditional, well-known since ancient times square measure. It is preserved in southern Germany and Austria today in the use of language and - depending on the region - 33-58 Ar, ie 3300-5800 m.

Designation

This surveyor is largely synonymous with the so-called day's work or daily work. Its scientific name is jugerum.

The yoke is the area that can be plowed by an ox or oxen in one day. Depending on the regional soil conditions, this value is between twenty-five and sixty acres. The respective yoke measure was, of course, always in accordance with the respective local measure.

In German the names Yoke type, Jauchart, Jauchert, itching, or Juchart Juckert for the yoke are regionally partly still in use today. The morning is generally half of a yoke. The courts have been taxed since the 8th century and then beyond the end of the 19th century after the addition hooves (or Hube, its equivalent for Southern Germany ). They corresponded often twenty-four yoke, so about six to fourteen acres, formerly the area of ​​a full-fledged Subsistenzbauernhofes.

Regional Jochmaße

It should be noted that the English acre is considered with its 40,47 Ar as ox -day work.