Storm spike

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Reconstructed storm spike based on an original from the Emden armory

As storm spit , even storm rod (French (le) Baton au feu ) or fire (French (le) Baton de flame ) or unlucky lance are skewers referred to as an incendiary weapon in the siege were used and storming of towns and fortifications.

description

Burning storm spike (reconstruction)

The storm spike consists of a wooden shaft, which is equipped with a metal tip with wide barbs. Depending on requirements, different payloads could be attached between the shaft and the tip, consisting of a ball of fire or a sack filled with powder and shot. There were different charges that could be selected specifically for the respective use, with the powder charge and incendiary material varying. For the user's own protection, there was a shield between the charge and the shaft in the form of a plate forged from iron or turned from wood.

The incendiary device (the actual charge) could also be armed with spikes and iron blows (self-shot elements).

In a book from 1686 there is a list of the weapons and ammunition required for the siege of the city of Ofen, today's Buda , which includes, among other things, 500 storm pikes . The price for an incendiary charge at that time is given as 36 guilders , that for the spit with 5 guilders.

swell

  • Hans Georg Schirvatt: Art and artillery book . Southern Germany 1622, p. 22r, 25r ( online [accessed on February 6, 2016] Bayerische StaatsBibiliothek Munich, BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 232. Images of storm spikes).
  • Sylvius Nimrod: storm barrel (85), storm pot (86), storm spike (87) . In: Different New Types of Artificial Fewerck, in addition to briefly introduced vndt instructions for artillery; From a lover beyderley creates knowledge first, but iezo ... 1657, p. Fig. 37 ( Online [accessed on February 10, 2016] Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), call number: Milit.B.35).
  • Fire lance that. In: Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Volume 2. Leipzig 1796, p. 133.
  • Storm spike that. In: Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 484.
  • Storm spike. In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 17. Altenburg 1863, p. 15.

literature

  • Alfred Geibig: Storm pistons, fire lances and storm pikes . In: The power of fire - serious fireworks of the 15th - 17th centuries in the mirror of its neuter tradition . Art collections of the Veste Coburg, Coburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87472-089-2 , p. 135-156 .
  • Auguste Demmin, The War Weapons in Their Historical Developments from the Earliest Times to the Present: An Encyclopedia of Arms , Supplementary Volume, Verlag P. Friesehahn, 1893, page 174

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Rudolph Faesch: war engineering artillery and naval Lexicon ... In addition to a geographical Anh from countries ... Ingleichen a message ... of which Müntz etc varieties. . tape 2 . Friedrich Hekel, 1735, p. 76 ( online [accessed February 11, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Victorious-Teutsche-weapons been such a world-famous fortress removed or Außführlicher report from the many blood conquered city where dead Like Türckische bloodhounds ... . Prague 1686, p. 4 ( Online [accessed on 11 February 2016]).
  3. ^ Friedrich Münich: History of the development of the Bavarian army for two centuries . Lindauer, Munich 1864, p. 13 ( Online [accessed February 11, 2016]).