Fire loop
A fire loop (also fire sledge , fire runners) was a medieval device for extinguishing fire. It was a tub filled with water on sled runners that was always on the edge of the market square near the town hall . In the event of a fire, this vat could be pulled immediately to the fireplace.
literature
- Gerd Althoff , Hans-Werner Goetz and Ernst Schubert : People in the shadow of the cathedral. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998, p. 300
- Friedrich Schmidt: History of the city of Sangerhausen. Volume 1, 1906, p. 318 ( excerpt )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marie Luisa Allemeyer: Fewersnoth and flaming sword. City fires in the early modern period. Göttingen 2007, p. 117
- ↑ Fire in the Lederer-Vierteln "July 16, 1645" ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
