Hello Jo,
the numbers are house not farm numbers. The houses and farms were numbered at one time in a village or town, and the next one to be built received the next number.
64 ha = 64 Hektar; 214 T = 214 Tagwerk
This surface is counted in two different ways: 1 Tagwerk is roughly about one third of a Hektar (1ha =10 000 square meters) and corresponds to the surface that could be ploughed in one day by one person. So 64ha should correspond to 214 T.
Another old measure you may come across is Morgen: surface which could be ploughed in one morning.
Regards
Colette (Llorca)
www.llorca.ovh.org
Oh, I thought it was like a house number (location) but this makes sense
that it was given a number when it was built. So if I understand correctly,
it could be a house or a farm .. or was each house on a large farm given
different numbers?
If the farm has one number, I wonder what happened when part of the farm was
sold off ... or if two farms merged?
Bonita
My understanding of a "Morgen" was that it was a measure of productivity of a
piece of land ... i.e. the ammount of land that would produce a certain number
of bushells of wheat, and was not a fixed area, but depended on the fertility
of the soil and the topography of the land.
Perhaps it originated with the ammount that could be plowed in a morning.
Don Roddy
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My understanding of a "Morgen" was that it was a measure of productivity of a
piece of land ... i.e. the ammount of land that would produce a certain number
of bushells of wheat, and was not a fixed area, but depended on the fertility
of the soil and the topography of the land.
Perhaps it originated with the ammount that could be plowed in a morning.
Don Roddy
Hello,
look here:
http://www.genealogy.net/privat/flacker/masse.html
1 Morgen = 0,26 Hektar = 0.64 acres
The word "Morgen" has two additional meanings:
- morning
- tomorrow
Greetings from Hannover
Harald
Hi,
the German word means:
morgen = tomorrow Morgen = morning, old word for east ( "In morning the is rising", a German song for children )
Morgen = 0,25532 ha ( in Pressia )
= 0,36000 ha ( in Baden )
= 0,34073 ha (in Bavaria ) here also told "Tagwerk"
= 0,25000 ha ( in Hessen and Hessen-Nassau )
= 0,27671 ha ( in Saxonia )
= 0,31517 ha ( W�rttemberg and Hohenzollern )
= 0,25016 ha ( Brunswick, only the "Landmorgen", means country )
= 0,33354 ha ( Brunswick, only the "Waldmorgen", means wood )
Greatings from Bavaria
Burkhard (Hoppe)
Harald Tobias schrieb:
The No's. had been given in former time by fire insurance.Big farms
first, smaler later.Regards Karl "LadyBonita (USA)"
<mailto:ladybonita@usa.com> schrieb: