Juchart

A Juchart (also Jucharte or Juchard, in French Pose, in Italian Pertica) was a unit of area measurement used in rural Switzerland until the early 20th century. In other German speaking regions it was known as a Joch, Jochart, Jauchart, Jauch, Juck or Juckert. The Juchart was a measurement of the amount of farm land that a man could plow in one day. It is similar to the northern German traditional measurement of a Morgen, which was approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in the morning hours of a day. In the French speaking Canton of Vaud a related unit of acreage, the Pose was used.^[1]

Size

As with most units of this type, the size of a Juchart varied widely. It depended on the productivity and shape of the land.

Size of the Juchart

Region (timespan)	Name	Size in m²	Size in acres	Subdivisions
Plains (traditional)	Juchart[2]	4,100–6,200	1.0–1.5 acres	4 Vierlinge or 16 Quärtli
Swiss Plateau (traditional)	Juchart[2]	2,700–3,600	0.67–0.89 acres	4 Vierlinge or 16 Quärtli
St. Gallen (traditional)	Tagehri[3]	1,738	0.429 acres
St. Gallen, Graubünden, Vorderrhein (traditional)	Mal[4]	1,050–1,760	0.26–0.43 acres
Graubünden Rhein valley (vineyards, traditional)	Mal[4]	1,100	0.27 acres
Ticino (traditional)	Pertica[2]	700–850	0.17–0.21 acres	Spazzo (4–5 m²), Staggio (7–33 m²)
Valais (traditional)	Fischela[2]	380–850	0.094–0.210 acres
Neuchâtel (traditional)	Journal[5]	2,700	0.67 acres	perche or émine
Valais (traditional)	Journal[5]	6,200	1.5 acres
Fribourg (traditional)	Béquille[6]	135	0.033 acres
Moutier (traditional)	Chaîne[7]	106	0.026 acres
Wooded land (traditional)	Juchart	3,360–4,460	0.83–1.10 acres
Meadows (traditional)	Mannwerk/seiteur or faux [8]	2,900–3,900	0.72–0.96 acres
Vaud – Meadows (1822)	Fossorier[8]	4,500	1.1 acres
Vaud (1822)	Pose[2]	4,500	1.1 acres	8 Fossorier or Ouvrier
Ticino (1826)	Pertica[2]	500	0.12 acres	Tavole, Gettate, Once or Quadretti
German Switzerland (1838)	Juchart[2]	3,600	0.89 acres	4 Vierlinge or 16 Quärtli

Notes ^a Also a unit of grain volume, approx. 12.3–29.7 liters