Dutch term – Schepel

24 August 2015 by Leave a Comment

A schepel is a measure of surface as well as of capacity. One schepel of land used to be the amount of land you could sow with one schepel of grain. You may encounter the term in land records or tax records.

The size of a schepel differed from one region to the next. For example, in Gelderland, a schepel of land was about 1450 m2, or 0.36 acres. In Twente, a schepel was about 887 m2 or 0.22 acres.1

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Bredevoort schepel, 1800. Credits: Rijksmuseum (Public Domain)

Source

  1. “Schepel (oppervlaktemaat),” Wikipedia, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schepel_(oppervlaktemaat), 8 August 2013 18:36.
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