Bakeries
Cucking stool or baker baptism was in the Middle Ages a form of punishment for the baker which bread manufactured with insufficient weight or of poor quality.
Such a punishment was often celebrated by the population as a kind of folk festival in which the baker was publicly pilloried . The guilty person was plunged into water or rubbish a few times in a basket of shame (Schupfe, Prelle) or by means of a seesaw, in addition, he was pelted with stones and humiliated by those present .
A corresponding device for carrying out a historical anecdote about such a baker can be seen in Roth near Nuremberg and in the mill museum in Gifhorn .
Web links
- Measure of bread and bakeries - poetry and truth. On: Art and culture in Wien.at
- Entry on Bäckerschupfen in the Austria Forum (in the ABC on Austrian Folklore)