Complex sentence: Before the introduction of the metric system in German, almost every town had its own definitions of the units shown below, and supposedly by 1810, in Baden alone, there were 112 different standards for the Elle around Germany.
Split into simpler sentences: Before the introduction of the metric system in German, almost every town had its own definitions of the units shown below. Supposedly by 1810, in Baden alone, there were 112 different standards for the Elle around Germany.