!!!Pranger, Bestrafung

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

!Literature
W. Westerhoff, Pranger-Saeulen in Oesterreich, 1994.


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