Big Bochse
The Grose Bochse (large rifle) was a giant medieval gun of the Teutonic Order . It was cast in several parts between June and September 1408 and probably had a plug or screw construction to connect the flight and the powder chamber. The dimensions of the non-preserved gun even exceeded the Faule Grete, which was completed shortly afterwards, and should have been in the order of magnitude of the Pumhart von Steyr .
Other well-known giant guns from the 15th century are the bronze-cast Faule Mette von Braunschweig and the rod ring guns Dulle Griet from Gent and Mons Meg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schmidtchen (1977), p. 235, fn. 88
literature
- Volker Schmidtchen: giant guns of the 15th century. Technical top performances of their time. Part II. In: History of technology. Vol. 44, No. 3, 1977, pp. 213-237 (235, footnotes 88, 108).