hannover-l - Nachricht 2008-02 00135

[Hoppe <ahnen(a)hoppe-schmiechen.de>]

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  ( Württemberg 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:

> svcygnus(a)pocketmail.com schrieb:
>  
>
> > 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
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