Hello!

I am looking for zweihander/bidenhander dimensions, specially looking for dimensions Livrustkammaren two handed sword [ Linked Image ].

Thanks in advance!

Here you go!

http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html

In particular, this sword is "Ceremonial Two-handed sword. No: LRK 16370",

The details:

Ceremonial Two-handed sword
(Germany) end of Sixteenth C.
Length: 1422 mm (55.98 inches)
Blade 1029 mm (40.51 inches)
Weight: 2700 gr (5.95 lbs)

It, and other swords, are also featured here: http://ejmas.com/jwma/articles/2004/jwmaart_shore_1004.htm

It's possible to get detailed measurements for late 16 century zweihander like on zornhau.de ? (http://www.zornhau.de/source/schwertexkursion/ZEF-1.pdf)

Can anybody explain me this thing - what means "klingendicke - 20 mm vor Ort" in zornhau measurements (http://www.zornhau.de/source/schwertexkursion/ZEF-1.pdf) ? Klingendicke means sword width, but what means "20 mm vor Ort - 5mm" ?

I suspect that in this case they wrote Klingendick as to mean "blade thickness" 20mm from the point, as opposed to blade width. The word dick works either way like that I soppose since it just means "fat" as far as I remember.

Self-edited out for stupidity (see below)

"20 mm vor Ort - 5mm" - so that means "20 mm from the point blade thickness is 5 mm" ?!

This data is very interesting, however I have some concerns about it. A 2-handed sword 6 mm at the crossguard and 5 m for most of the blade with almost no profile taper? Well that should be a whippy blade! I have a reenactment zweihander that is 4.8-4.9 mm thick for its whole length but has a pretty strong profile taper (from 50 mm at the base to 30 mm at the point, proportions very similar to the sword in the first post). The whole sword is 156 cm and weight is around 2900 g. This sword definitely lacks stiffness in the forte and in the handle (and it has a full-width tang). Increasing round bar diameter 2 times would increase its stiffness 8 or even 16 times so 1 mm does matter here, but I still don't think that 6 mm would be enough. Round numbers add even more suspicion, though other measurements are made with good precision. Creating a replica with exactly same measurements would faithfully reproduce the sword's behavior, but one should remember that there were swords that handled poorly and there were swords that handled perfectly for their intended use but would seem too whippy or poorly balanced or heavy to us.