Armored hole

Panzerloch (also armored chamber ) is an ancient description for a narrow and low prison. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm explained the origin of the word in their dictionary as "prison that surrounds the prisoner like a tank".

Panzerloch was also the name of a prison in Frankfurt am Main. After the canvas house was no longer used as a guilty prison from 1550 , one was set up in the Katharinenturm at the Katharinenpforte .

Individual evidence

^ Dictionary network - German dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
↑ tank hole (index word article). In: German legal dictionary (DRW). Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 11, 2019 .
^ Georg Ludwig Kriegl: German Citizenship in the Middle Ages, with special reference to Frankfurt aM 1871, p. 39 ( google.de [accessed on November 12, 2019]).
↑ Contributions to the history of Frankfurt: The participants in the 11-15 ... Kumpf & Reis, 1881, p. 81 ( archive.org [accessed November 11, 2019]).
^ GL Kriegl: German Citizenship in the Middle Ages / Kriegk, Georg Ludwig | German bourgeoisie in the Middle Ages / Kriegk, Georg Ludwig. Literarisches Anstalt Frankfurt am Main, 1871, p. 42 , accessed on November 11, 2019 .

[1] Dictionary network - German dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .

[2] tank hole (index word article). In: German legal dictionary (DRW). Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 11, 2019 .

[3] Georg Ludwig Kriegl: German Citizenship in the Middle Ages, with special reference to Frankfurt aM 1871, p. 39 ( google.de [accessed on November 12, 2019]).

[4] Contributions to the history of Frankfurt: The participants in the 11-15 ... Kumpf & Reis, 1881, p. 81 ( archive.org [accessed November 11, 2019]).

[5] GL Kriegl: German Citizenship in the Middle Ages / Kriegk, Georg Ludwig | German bourgeoisie in the Middle Ages / Kriegk, Georg Ludwig. Literarisches Anstalt Frankfurt am Main, 1871, p. 42 , accessed on November 11, 2019 .