Pointing stake (execution)
Detail from Pieter Bruegel's painting The Triumph of Death (around 1562)
In the original meaning of the word, a pole was equated with a gallows . In the Old High German dictionary it was called gabulum or galgo .
The target post is actually part of an instrument for the execution , but to two different methods of execution. On the one hand, he is the part of a choking body on which the delinquent was executed. On the other hand, the directional post set into the ground was necessary to fasten the spoked wheel onto which the directional post was braided after the wheeling , so that it was, as it were, lying on the wheel.
This also found expression in the artistic processing, for example in the Peasant War Panorama by Werner Tübke and by Pieter Bruegel in the painting Triumph of Death .
