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12th-century accident in the Holy Roman Empire

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[220px-Codex_Manesse_Heinrich_V]
 
Emperor Heinrich VI survived the Latrinensturz disaster.
(Illustration from Codex Manesse)

In July 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor),
held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the
morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles
caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and
most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground
floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. This event
is called Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. 'Erfurt latrine fall') in
several German sources.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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Contents

  * 1 Background
  * 2 Event
  * 3 Original texts
  * 4 References

Background[edit]

A feud between Landgrave Louis III of Thuringia and Archbishop Conrad
of Mainz, which had existed since the defeat of Henry the Lion,
intensified to the point that King Henry VI was forced to intervene
while he was traveling through the region during a military campaign
against Poland. Henry decided to call a diet in Erfurt, where he was
staying, to mediate the situation between the two and invited a
number of other figures to the negotiations.^[4]

Event[edit]

All of the nobles across the Holy Roman Empire were invited to the
meeting, and many arrived on 25 July to attend.^[5] Just as the
assembly began, the wooden floor of the deanery, in which the nobles
were sitting, broke under the stress, and people fell down through
the first floor into the latrine in the cellar. About 60 people died,
^[6] including Count Gozmar III of Ziegenhain, Count Friedrich I of
Abenberg [de], Burgrave Friedrich I of Kirchberg [de], Count Heinrich
I of Schwarzburg [de], Count Burgrave Burchard of Wartburg [de],
Burgmeister Breuer of Wartschitt and Beringer of Meldingen.^[7] King
Henry was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with
a stone floor.^[5]

Original texts[edit]

  * Cronica Reinhardsbrunnensis, MGH. SS XXX/1, p. 541-542. (in
    Latin)
  * Cronica S. Petri Erfordensis moderna, MGH. SS XXX/1, p. 374. (in
    original Latin)
  * Chronik von St. Peter zu Erfurt (In German translation)

References[edit]

 1. ^ "Curio #1: The Erfurter Latrinensturz". The Fortweekly. April
    2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2019.
 2. ^ Magnusson, Roberta J. (1 April 2003). Water Technology in the
    Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman
    Empire. JHU Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8018-7283-9.
 3. ^ Arnold, Benjamin (29 January 2004). Princes and Territories in
    Medieval Germany. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 
    978-0-521-52148-2.
 4. ^ Rundfunk, Bayerischer (26 July 2011). "26. Juli 1184 : Erfurter
    Latrinensturz". Bayerischer Rundfunk (in German). Archived from
    the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
 5. ^ ^a ^b "RI IV,2,4 n. 2778, Friedrich I., 1184 Juli 25-26,
    Erfurt : Regesta Imperii". www.regesta-imperii.de (in German).
    Archived from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 3
    September 2019.
 6. ^ Schwiebert, Ernest George (1996). The Reformation. Fortress
    Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8006-2836-9.
 7. ^ "Chronik von St. Peter zu Erfurt" (in German). Archived from
    the original on 4 October 2010.

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