Revolving house
A rotating house , even Driller , Drilles , rotating cage , Trillhaus , trills or Switzerland also Trülle called, was a tool for the display and punishment of persons and is a special kind of fool cottage .
Structure and use
The rotary cottage was as closed iron cage or wooden cage - though similar to a hamster wheel, with a vertical axis of rotation - constructed. The outside of the cylindrical structure of the cage was provided with vertical bars. The sentenced person was standing in the cage. The cage was mounted above and below so that it could be set in rotation around its own axis from the outside. The upper axis found its counter bearing in a kind of gallows. The bailiff or passers-by could continue to torment the convicted person by turning the cage.
In the driller, for example, “women with a loose mouth” or field thieves or criminal offenders were locked up and put on display. It was used to punish minor crimes in public places such as marketplaces or town halls .
Lore
"Drilles im Spilles" in Enkirch on the Moselle
At the upper end of Drillesgasse, at the intersection with Königstraße, in Enkirch on the Moselle, you can still find the Drilles under the stairs of the former playhouse ("Spilles"). It is probably the only preserved historical rotating cage.
Around 1567, the bad custom had become common in Enkirch that the girls of the village were auctioned off by a marshal . The boy who had bought a girl at auction had to keep her boy free for a year at festivals and celebrations, only on Kings Day, which was celebrated for three days, the girls kept their boy free. Citizens and authorities saw this practice violated the moral standards of the time. In 1602 at the latest, the drill emerged in which anyone caught at such an auction was locked up for a day with the active participation of the population, regardless of whether they were boys or girls. This practice of punishing young people with the drill for indecent behavior has been passed down several times in southern Germany and Switzerland.
In the Moselle Franconian dialect , the toy spinning top is also known as a "drill".
Trill in Mainz
The current intersection of Weintorstrasse and Schlossergasse / Gallusgasse was called Triller until April 2, 1876, there was a rotating cage for bakers who had baked bread that was too light.
Trill in Saarbrücken
The trill is the district No. 114 of the city of Saarbrücken in the district of Alt-Saarbrücken . The name of this district is probably due to the fact that a trill was placed there in the 18th century. Another interpretation says that the district was named after Daniel Wilhelm Triller , the personal physician of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich .
Trulle in Zurich
The Zurich “Trülle” was on Bahnhofstrasse opposite the Rennwegtor . The old "Haus zur Trülle" was the residence of Mayor Melchior Römer and was demolished in 1897. The current building at Bahnhofstrasse 69a was also built in 1897 by the architects Pflegehardt & Häfeli.
Bacchus in the trill
Friedrich Schiller's anthology for 1782 contains the poem Bacchus in the trill . It is a poem about the wine god Bacchus , who is mocked as a “Lokrer woodpecker” and “wild bird” because he spoils people with his drink.
- That we are God's yellow sun
- For the Heidelberg bin
- Mountains, trees, towers, castles,
- Respected for glasses,
- Do you learn it izt, you local woodpecker?
- Learn it right in your cage.
Excerpt from Schiller's Bacchus in the trill
Individual evidence
- ^ Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate: The Justice in Ahrweiler in the Middle Ages , accessed on May 17, 2008
- ↑ German legal dictionary: Drille , accessed on May 18, 2018
- ↑ Database of cultural assets in the Trier region: Enkirch rotary cage, Enkirch municipality, Drillesgasse , accessed on May 18, 2018
- ↑ Municipality of Enkirch: Drilles im Spilles , accessed on May 18, 2018
- ↑ German legal dictionary: Drille , accessed on May 18, 2018
- ^ Karl Schramm : Mainz Dictionary, Mainz 1993
- ↑ Charly Lehnert: "Come on, ma play ebbes" in nemmeh dehemm - International newspaper for the friends of the Saarland , No. 101/27. Volume / spring 2013, p. 7.
- ↑ Why the trill is called a trill . Saarbrücker Zeitung of August 11, 2015, p. C2
- ↑ architektur-technik ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Friedrich Schiller: Anthology on the year 1782. Metzler publishing house, 1782, p. 12. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Gabriela Zgrzebnicka: Dionysus as a pre-configuration of modern images of masculinity. ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 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.
- ↑ Max L. Baeumer: Dionysus and the Dionysian in ancient and German literature. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-19074-2 , p. 249.
literature
- Diether Blüm: If stones could tell ... Publisher of the weekly newspaper "Der Bensemer"
- Revolving house . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 5 . Altenburg 1858, p. 301 ( zeno.org ).
- Punishment . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 16 . Altenburg 1863, p. 886-893 ( zeno.org ).