Economy coffin

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Josephine community coffin in the Vienna Funeral Museum
Josephine parish coffin - in the mirror you can see the bottom that can be opened. Bad Saulgau City Museum (formerly Upper Austria)
Josephine community coffin in the Veliny morgue

Sparse coffin , also known as the Josephine parish coffin , refers to a reusable coffin that the reform emperor Joseph II introduced in Austria in 1785 .

Like a traditional community coffin and a plague coffin, this coffin was equipped with a flap at the bottom that could be opened by means of a lever . It was placed with the corpse over the open grave and opened, the corpse, wrapped in a linen sack, fell into the grave and was covered with slaked lime . So the coffin could be reused. Each parish had to provide such coffins free of charge, which meant that the often illegally excessive stole fee was no longer necessary . The population - especially in Vienna - successfully protested against this “ungodly procedure”, whereupon Joseph II withdrew his instructions after six months. Despite the brief effectiveness of this decree, individual savings coffins have been preserved throughout the Habsburg rulership, for example in Herznach in Fricktal , which was in front of Austria until 1798 , in Bad Saulgau (now also in Baden-Württemberg), or in the collegiate church of St. Andreas in the Göß district of Leoben .

literature

  • From the dead tree to the designer coffin. On the cultural history of the coffin from antiquity to the present. Exhibition catalog, Museum for Sepulchral Culture Kassel, 2nd edition, Kassel 1994, p. 75f.
  • Holz-Zentralblatt, No. 108, 23 August 2002, p. 1163: “Ka Schöne leich” - the Josephine folding coffin.
  • Museum of Sepulchral Art: boxes, carriage, caravan. On the way to rest . Accompanying publication to the exhibition of the same name, Kassel 1999.
  • Ordinances on funerals in: Handbook of all ... ordinances and laws from 1784 . Volume 6. Joh.Georg Moesle, Vienna 1786, p. 565 ( digitized version )
  • Ordinance on the stol fee in: Handbook of all ... ordinances and laws from 1784 . Volume 6. Joh. Georg. Moesle, Vienna 1786, p. 555 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anita Winkler: Recycling until death. In: habsburger.net. Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.mbH, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Handbook of all ... ordinances and laws from the year 1784. Volume 6. Joh. Georg Moesle, Vienna 1786, page 550, court decree of August 23 and September 13, 1784
  3. ↑ Handbook of all ... ordinances and laws from the year 1784. Volume 6. Joh. Georg Moesle, Vienna 1786, page 539, ordinance Graez of June 19, 1784
  4. ↑ Linus Hüsser : The Herznacher "Pestsarg". A witness of the Josephine reform policy . In: Vom Jura zum Schwarzwald 72 (1998), pp. 59–62

Web links

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