Bamberg ordeal
The Bamberger ordeal was in the Diocese of Bamberg invented and applied torture in the early modern period to the 17th century, as a mild kind of embarrassing questioning was.
The torture practiced throughout the Holy Roman Empire was part of the legal system and should only be used if the accused had not previously been convicted by a confession called the Urgicht or by the procedural method of evidence. In addition, there had to be an urgent suspicion, so the embarrassing questioning could not be used arbitrarily. The accused was tied to a wooden trestle with his bare back and then whipped with a rod , carbachian or whip during interrogation , or beaten with a stick by the judge .
literature
- Franz Helbing : The ordeal - history of torture in criminal proceedings of all peoples and times . Langenscheidt Verlag, Ost-Lichterfelde 1910, ISBN 3-8289-0317-7 (facsimile edition)
- Bamberg . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 1 , Issue 8 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1962, OCLC 934824402 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - first edition: 1931 or 1932).