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Darrera modificació: 2020-03-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Bucher, Reto, Arme Siechen? Laufenburg-Siechebifang: Ein aussergewöhnlicher Einblick in das Inventar eines spätmittelalterlichen Siechenhauses, Brugg, Librum Publishers & Editors (Archäologie im Aargau), 2020, 193 pp.
- Resum
- In spring 2014 employees of the Archaeological Service of Canton Aargau discovered a late medieval cellar belonging to a former leper house («Siechen-haus») in the «Siechebifang» area, southwest of the old town of Laufenburg. The long, rectangular cellar was oriented east-west and measured 4.7×3.3 metres. The cellar walls, which were preserved up to a height of 1.3 m, were not con-structed as retaining walls in the construction pit but erected as free-standing double-shell masonry. On the western narrow side was a ramp-like entrance. Due to the find assemblages from the construction pit and from the ramp's back-fill the cellar can be dated to the 14th or early 15th cent.
No structures of the rising masonry work were observed. Loam recovered from the cellar's wall coping as well as jamb stones and window glass from the structure's filling indicate a simple half-timbered building possibly with a par-tially bricked ground floor.
The Laufenburg «Siechenhaus» can be traced back to the 14th cent. with historical sources (domus leprosorum). Two boundary plans from the 1770s depict the »Siechenhaus» as a free-standing building on the road towards Rhein-felden and situated inside a fenced-in area marked as a garden. Before 1840 the Siechenhaus disappeared completely, with only the field name surviving to the present day.
The location of the Laufenburg «Siechenhaus», firstly outside the city, secondly on an important traffic route and thirdly in the vicinity of a flowing waterway, corresponds to the typical criteria of late medieval leper houses. As relocations of leper houses are rarely documented, it can be assumed that the Laufenburg «Siechenhaus» had probably been situated on the road to Rheinfelden since its foundation. The cellar can therefore be attributed to the predecessor of the building depicted in the plans. (...)
- Matèries
- Arqueologia
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història de la medicina
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