![]() Iron Maiden from a Polish encyclopedia from 1902 Therefore, the nails contained in the “Iron Maiden” exhibited in the Crime Museum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber were removed. The preserved devices are probably reinterpretations of early modern cloaks and were only later riddled with nails (or with bayonets from the Napoleonic era, as in the Nuremberg specimen). The idea is based on a Nuremberg Chronicle news of 1533 by the Altdorfer professor Johann Philipp Siebenkees 1793 hawked was and medieval ideas in the context of former kangaroo court stands. This type of execution is said to have been called The Virgin Kiss and the entire process is said to have been called The Secret Court. ![]() In the case of the so-called Nuremberg Iron Maiden, the body then fell through an opening in the floor into the river below. According to tradition, the death row inmate stood in the figure, whereupon the figure was closed and the tips bored into the body.
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