Karnhaus

As Karnhaus or Karen house an attachment is at a church buildings referred to in which the faithful, with a penance were occupied, during the worship had stopped. Church penance was usually a public atonement for serious sins .

In the Protestant Church in particular, church penance was used as a discipline for violating church ordinances and moral codes.

The term Karnhaus comes from the Old High German char ( Middle High German kar ), which denotes penance, cf. Karner in the Alps.

literature

Karen House . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 7 , issue 3 (edited by Günther Dickel , Heino Speer, with the assistance of Renate Ahlheim, Richard Schröder, Christina Kimmel, Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1976, OCLC 836723786 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).

Individual evidence

↑ Kirchbuße . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 7 , issue 6 (edited by Günther Dickel , Heino Speer, with the assistance of Renate Ahlheim, Richard Schröder, Christina Kimmel, Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1979, OCLC 718486457 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).

[1] Kirchbuße . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 7 , issue 6 (edited by Günther Dickel , Heino Speer, with the assistance of Renate Ahlheim, Richard Schröder, Christina Kimmel, Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1979, OCLC 718486457 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).