urinal

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Urinal as a section of a men's toilet
Contemporary lithograph for the first Berlin advertising column , with an integrated urinal on the left

A urinal is a place intended for men to pee standing up . A urinal can be both a stand-alone building and a section of a toilet . Occasionally are Pinkel Rinne and falsely the urinal as a urinal called.

etymology

The word is of French origin and is made up of the verb pisser ("piss") and the suffix -oir (from Latin -orium - the place where something happens). In French itself, these places were called vespasienne (after the Roman emperor Vespasian ). According to the Petit Larousse Illustré 1994, this term is outdated (page 1062: "VESPASIENNE nf ... Vx ...", page 24: "vx ... vieux (mot qui n'est généralement plus compris ni employé ... ) "). According to Larousse, the standard term is urinoir . The term pissoir also exists, but is called pop. (popular).

When the Prefect Claude-Philibert de Rambuteau had the first public urinals built in Paris in 1834 , the opposition mockingly called them colonne Rambuteau (column of Rambuteau). Rambuteau then launched the official name colonne vespasienne (Vespasian column). There are the terms urinoir and - somewhat less cultivated - pissoir, pissotière . The word épissoir has nothing to do with it, it describes an awl that is used when splicing ( épisser ) ( marlspieker ).

Special

  • When Octagonal Café are in Berlin euphemisch those sheet metal kiosks equipped with roof named with a Pissrinne on the ground or at half height because of the eight walls view. One side forms the entrance through overlapping walls. Similar kiosks with urinals - some with a round shape - can also be found in other cities.
  • In Dresden-Pieschen (Leipziger Straße) there was a rectangular urinal house at the Pieschener Hafen until the 1980s, from whose piss channel the drainage was through a pipe directly into the Elbe at half height.
  • In Vienna, in the Art Nouveau period, pissoire were called a pissort as part of a system with first and second class toilets .
  • In the Netherlands there are partially open urinals, but also sheet metal constructions that are screwed in in a spiral shape.
  • In Switzerland, a women's urinal has been used at music festivals since 2000, called “Peeasy”, where women can pee. In other places, too, you can find urinals for women every now and then.
  • In order to prevent unauthorized peeing in the wild at certain places, mobile plastic boxes were set up at selected locations in Basel. This measure taken by the Basel building department against wild peeing due to numerous complaints should first be checked with mobile systems to see how and whether this is used. The acceptance of these mobile urinals can be checked on the reached tank content. "The annoying bad habit of wild urinating in dark corners of public space and in green areas, especially after wet and happy feasts, is increasingly becoming a problem in Basel, as the Basel-Stadt civil engineering department reports. Complaints from residents, homeowners and restaurants about wild urination would increase in the city. ”The plastic urinal shells were used by around 70,000 people, according to an estimate based on the amount of urine collected of 35,000 liters. The systems had been accepted by the users, but “wild peeing” had been reduced, but not prevented. There was criticism from the immediate vicinity of the locations. A seasonal offer is rather tolerated compared to fixed installations.
  • “Explicit sexual acts in public areas have a long tradition. In the last century, urinal houses and parks took on a new meaning. At night they became a meeting place for people looking for and exchanging sex. In the last 30 years these places have almost been institutionalized by the homosexual community, so that they have their own section in international travel guides. "
  • Often, urinals that are no longer used are used for another purpose. For example, a former urinal in Prenzlauer Berg was converted into a garbage house with the redevelopment of the square (Erich-Weinert- / Gudvanger Straße). (See picture in the gallery) In 2009, there was a listed urinal that had been converted into an artist machine in Nuremberg.
  • Organic pee flower troughs filled with sawdust have been used in Paris since 2017. The process saves water and chemicals, and the sawdust filling can be composted.
  • Urinal kiosks

  • Café Achteck in Berlin

  • Old urinal , Neumünster Bahnhofstrasse 2

  • Entrance area of ​​the Aupark Floridsdorf, Vienna

  • Freestanding Düsseldorf

  • Hamburg main station, exit south

  • Conversion to a garbage house (right in the picture)

literature

Web links

Commons : Urinals  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Pissoir  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Petit Larousse Illustré 1994 . Larousse, Paris 1994, p. 24 .
  2. ↑ Le Petit Larousse Illustré 1994 . Larousse, Paris 1994, p. 1049 .
  3. ↑ Le Petit Larousse Illustré 1994 . Larousse, Paris 1994, p. 786 .
  4. ↑ Le grand Robert, 2001
  5. ↑ http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2691162/ WC dispute: Jugendstiltoilette is being renovated, ORF.at January 25, 2015 (picture 6 of 8)
  6. ↑ Making the world easier - different toilet models . Keyword Netherlands, with picture
  7. ↑ Women's urinal: Not an easy undertaking , Berner Zeitung , July 18, 2011
  8. ↑ Urinal houses are supposed to slow down wild pissers. In: Basler Zeitung , July 12, 2012
  9. ↑ Basel starts experiment with mobile urinal houses . In: Baublatt, July 12, 2012
  10. ↑ Construction and Transport Department (BVD): Mobile urinals are well used in Basel . In: Week of the Day, November 19, 2012
  11. ↑ Jorge Jeffersson Presents . Report on the exhibition Dark Room , February 5-7, 1999 in Zurich
  12. ↑ Note on nuernberg.bayern-online.de/magazin , Künstlerautomat Willstraße 50 / corner Roonstraße.
  13. ↑ Planted “litter boxes” against wild peeers in Paris orf.at, February 9, 2017, accessed February 9, 2017.