Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin
The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. The practice was abolished in Bavaria in 1813 and in the Electorate of Hesse in 1836: the last known execution by the "Wheel" took place in Prussia in 1841. In the Holy Roman Empire it was a "mirror punishment" for highwaymen and street thieves, and was set out in the Sachsenspiegel for murder, and arson that resulted in fatalities.[1]
^Althoff, Gerd; Goetz, Hans-Werner; Schubert, Ernst (1998). Menschen im Schatten der Kathedrale: Neuigkeiten aus dem Mittelalter [People in the shadow of the cathedral: News from the Middle Ages] (in German). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. p. 332. ISBN 9783534142217.
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