Donkey ride

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Donkey ride (right), drawing by Christoph Weiditz , around 1530–1540

Detail from the painting "Neumarkt in Dresden"; You can see the gallows, stake and donkey on the Neumarkt in Dresden around 1747

The donkey ride was an honor punishment known since the 9th century and mainly used in the Middle Ages . The punished man was led through the town on a donkey , sometimes backwards and naked. The punitive procession was used for public disgrace and abuse.

This form of delinquent shame could z. B. meet adulterers , perjurers , traitors , prisoners and both women who beat their husbands and men who were beaten. Even anti-pope John XVI. was subjected to such a disgraceful procession.

Donkey rides took place in the Orient as well as in European countries ; the last in Germany is from 1814.

The donkey ride was often given along with other punishments such as disgraceful masks and pillory .

The disgraceful donkey , also seat pillory or disgraceful chair, was a wooden frame that stood in a public square. The victim had to sit on it.

See also

• Disgrace

literature

• Volker Plagemann: Eselsritt , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 5, 1967, Sp. 1529–1536

swell

1. ^ Sonja Steiner-Welz: The German City , Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86656-319-3
2. ^ Gerhard Köbler: Pictures from the German legal history , CH Beck Munich, 1988, ISBN 3-406-32880-6