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.Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Vollständiges Taschenbuch der Münz-, Maß- und Gewichtsverhältnisse. Book 1, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, pg. 463
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 4,100–6,200 4 Vierlinge or 16 Quärtli Swiss Plateau (traditional) Juchart 2,700–3,600 4 Vierlinge or 16 Quärtli St. Gallen (traditional) Tagehri 1,738 St. Gallen, Graubünden, Vorderrhein (traditional) Mal 1,050–1,760 Graubünden Rhein valley (vineyards, traditional) Mal 1,100 Ticino (traditional) Pertica 700–850 Spazzo (4–5 m²), Staggio (7–33 m²) Valais (traditional) Fischel 380–850 Neuchâtel (traditional) Journal 2,700 perche or émine Valais (traditional) Journal 6,200 Fribourg (traditional) Béquille 135 Moutier (traditional) Chaîne 106 Wooded land (traditional) Juchart 3,360–4,460 Meadows (traditional) Mannwerk/seiteur or faux 2,900–3,900 Vaud – Meadows (1822) Fossorier 4,500 Vaud (1822) Pose 4,500 8 Fossorier or Ouvrier Ticino (1826) Pertica 500 Tavole, Gettate, Once or Quadretti German Switzerland (1838) Juchart 3,600 4 Vierlinge or 16 Quärtli
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