scaffold
Marie Antoinette on the scaffold before her execution
The scaffold ( medium Dutch sc (h) Avot , Old French chafaut , "Look framework"; today . French échafaud , . English scaffold ), formerly scaffold called, was a stage-like increased execution site for public beheadings .
Public executions should the authority of the government demonstrate and deterrents crime to commit. But they also had a high entertainment value. Initially, a sword or a hand ax was usually used for beheading by an executioner . The guillotine was also used from the end of the 18th century .
Monuments
Calw scaffold
- Calwer scaffold on the Wimberg. The last public execution took place here in 1818.
- Scaffold Lehrhöfer Heide in the Hanau district of Wolfgang , on the site of the old Argonne barracks. On January 11, 1861, the woman murderer Johann Heinrich Nolte was beheaded after a circumstantial trial. This was the last execution at this place, it took place in front of about 20,000 onlookers .
- Sword straightening facility at the Rabenstein in Marburg. The last public execution took place here in 1864.
literature
- Elevator to the scaffold - novel and crime film
Web links
Commons : Schafott - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
Wiktionary: Schafott - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden online: Scaffold and blood framework
- ↑ Hanauer Anzeiger from January 13th and 15th, 2011
- ↑ Information page on the sword straightening site at Rabenstein in Marburg ( memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on myheimat.de