Defenestration
Defenestration ( lat. De "from ... down" and fenestra "window") or window lintel describes the falling of a person out of a window .
Defenestrations occurred in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period , such as the first Prague lintel in 1419 at the beginning of the Hussite Wars or the Bamberg lintel of Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier in 1815 . The second lintel in Prague , which triggered the Thirty Years War in 1618 , is particularly well-known . The Cologne lintel of March 3, 1848 was not a defenestration in the true sense of the word.
In the Old Testament , the hated queen of the northern kingdom of Israel , Jezebel , was thrown to her death from a window of her palace at the behest of Jehu .
Defenestrations represent a form of violence that stands between lynching (often preceded by a formal “condemnation” by the perpetrator ), divine judgment and communal murder .
Nowadays, falling windows are also a type of accident at work , especially on construction sites , as well as in leisure time or occur with suicidal intent.
Web links
- Stefanie Last: Fatal falls from heights in the state of Berlin from 1988-2004 - Injury pattern depending on the fall height Berlin, Univ.-Diss. 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Federal Labor Court, judgment of February 19, 2009, 8 AZR 188/08 ( Memento of the original of July 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- Jump up ↑ Death: Police assume accident from Mittelbayerische Zeitung , July 16, 2015
- ↑ Intentional self-harm by falling into the depths ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ICD-10 (2006) X80.
- ↑ Ulrich Schilling-Strack: Rex Gildo - death of a pop singer . In: Der Westen , October 24, 2009.
