Belt cutting

The Punishment of Cutting the Belt, drawing after a figure in the Wickiana , 1581

Belt cutting is a torture or corporal punishment (mutilation penalty). A knife was used to cut strips ( straps ) out of the skin . Sometimes you just cut out the victim's skin with scissors .

Belt cutting was basically only used as an aggravation of punishment in addition to other punishments. In the Codex Austriacus , the Austrian collection of laws for the period up to 1770, it says: "But if there is a strange, big crime [...] the judge should cut the ordinari tightly [...] through [...] belts ... multiply". For example, Peter Nirsch was executed under torture for a period of two days from September 16, 1581 for 520 confessed murders, including cutting belts, causing burns and wheels.

literature

Belt cutting . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 11 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-7400-1231-5 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).

Individual evidence

↑ Belt cutting . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 11 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-7400-1231-5 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).

[1] Belt cutting . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 11 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-7400-1231-5 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).