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Pillory, a wooden framework erected on a post to expose an offender to public derision and contempt; form of punishment meted out by lower courts up to the end of the 18th  century. There are pillories in numerous places north of the River Danube, most of them dating back to the 16th  and 17th  centuries: Bad Zell (1574), Laa an der Thaya (1575), Pulkau (1582), Perg (1583), Drosendorf, Langenlois, Schenkenfelden and Eggenburg (all 16th  century), Kirchberg am Wagram (1636), Litschau (1688), Rastenfeld, Hofkirchen im Muehlkreis, Koenigswiesen and Leopoldschlag (all 17th  century). In some places pillories were replaced by Trinity columns or market fountains during the 18th  century. The punishment of exposing an offender to public derision was abolished under Joseph II, since then many pillories have been pulled down.

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