Fool's house

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A fool's house as a punishment device for punishing minor offenses was usually either in churches, at town halls or in markets. In the fools' house, the delinquent was exposed to the public in a similar way to a pillory . There was no uniform shape for a fool's house, the design ranges from a rotatable slatted crate to walled rooms with a grille on the front. The offenses punishable by staying in the fool's house included, among other things, disturbing noise, public drunkenness and forms of adultery.

While movable forms were mostly used in markets (for example a “fool's house” in Bozen in 1391 and one on the Konstanzer Obermarkt around 1500 ), the facilities were mostly in churches (for example the town church in Meißen ) or at town halls like the one in Heilbronn fixed facilities. Other fools' houses can be found at the town halls of Oschatz near Dresden and Rothenburg ob der Tauber .

The names of the Narrenhäusel in Dresden and the Oberlößnitz Narrenhäusel go back to the actual origin of the meaning (house of a fool), but have nothing to do with the building deniers described here in the transferred sense.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Frohne (2008), p. 39 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 414, no.877 .
  3. ↑ Götzinger (1885), p. 719

literature

  • Bianca Frohne: fools, animals and tall figures . For the staging of comical physicality in the context of exposure, ridicule and shame from the 13th to the 16th century. Pp. 19-54. In: Christoph Auffarth, Sonja Kerth (Ed.): Faith controversy and laughter. Reformation and laughter culture in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Hopf, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1212-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Ernst Götzinger : Reallexicon of German antiquities . Leipzig 1885, p. 719, article Narrenhäuschen (online, accessed on March 3, 2012).