Talk:German units of measurement

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This article was tagged disputed but with no comments on the talk page. I therefore changed it to a tag for needs references. RJFJR 01:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know when Germnay adopted the Metric System? (For the intro paragraph). RJFJR 01:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Germany adopted the meter in 1870, and as far as I know, was among the initial 17 countries signing the metric convention in 1875. (Source: German Wikipedia, [1]) 212.149.48.44 10:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] German? What German?

> “German system

Before the introduction of the metric system in German, almost every town had its own definitions of the units shown below, and supposedly by 1810, in Baden alone, there were 112 different standards for the Elle around Germany. The metric system was a much-needed standardisation in Germany.“

It isn't clear to me - is this article about units used in “Germany“ or used in all these areas? Think the latter, because Vienna (Wien) and Switzerland are given, too.

The 1st paragraph of the article in german WP gives:

“Das Lemma führt historische Maße und Gewichte des deutschsprachigen Raums vor allem des 19. Jahrhunderts auf. Zwar unterscheiden sich die Einheiten örtlich und zeitlich teils erheblich, aber die Beziehungen innerhalb eines Systems sind einigermaßen gleich bleibend. [...]“

Only the 1st sentence is important - “deutschsprachiger Raum“ means german speaking areas/regions, where this language is spoken (at that time) like Autria (then part of Habsburg monarchy), the (holy) german empire (some sort of “union“, later on the empire based on the prussian monarchy), switzerland for ex..

So the lemma/headline of your article could be sthing like this:

(Old) German units of measurement - austrian, swiss ones etc. included, or

(Old) Units of measurement in Germany - only for the territory of what was “Germany” at that time (say until the 1870s). And of course separated articles for others countries/regions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.166.249.45 (talk) 08:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)