Lazy maid
The Lazy Maid is a medieval stone box from Saxony from around 1410-1430. The gun barrel, which was originally manufactured as a lay-up, was mounted on the mount that is still preserved today in 1511. The lazy maid is in the restored state in the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden.
technical description
- Type of gun: main rifle
- Gun class: Heavy stone rifles
- Type: wrought iron bar ring gun
- Tube length: 233 cm
- Tube weight: 1383.3 kg
- Caliber: 34.5 cm
- Ball weight: approx. 48 kg
literature
- Manfred Lachmann (Ed.): Eyn Rohr aus Eisenstangen: on the history of the barring gun "Faule Maid" . Army Museum of the GDR, Dresden 1987.
- Dieter Nissel: A curiosity from the Dresden arsenal. For the research and restoration of the stone box "Faule Magd" (= Saxon homeland sheets . No. 5 ). 1991, p. 262-273 .
- Volker Schmidtchen : Military technology in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era, taking into account military, socio-economic and political aspects. The development of heavy wall breakers into siege artillery in the Renaissance . Bochum 1976, p. 98 (dissertation).
- Bernhard Rathgen: The gun in the Middle Ages . VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1928 ( online at archive.org [accessed on January 14, 2020]).
Web links
Commons : Lazy Maid - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- German photo library: "Lazy maid" from Dresden
- Detailed photos of the "lazy maid" on www.schirrmeister-online.de
Individual evidence
- ^ All information from: Verband Deutscher Schwarzpulver Kanoniere: Heeresgeschützen ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )