25η Ιουλίου: η μέρα που 60 Γερμανοί πνίγηκαν στα σκατά

[Ζενίθεδρος]

The Erfurt latrine disaster was an event that occurred in Erfurt, Duchy of Thuringia in 1184. A number of nobles from across the Holy Roman Empire were meeting in a room at the Church of St. Peter, when their combined weight caused the floor to collapse into the latrine beneath the cellar and led to dozens of nobles drowning in liquid excrement. At least 60 people died in the accident.[1]

A feud between Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia and Archbishop Conrad of Mainz which had existed since the defeat of Henry the Lion intensified to the point that King Heinrich VI was forced to intervene while he was traveling through the region during a military campaign against Poland. Heinrich 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.[2]

Nobles across the Holy Roman Empire were invited to the meeting, and many arrived on 25 July to attend.[3] Just as the assembly began, the wooden floor of the provost of St. Mary, 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.[4] King Heinrich was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with a stone floor.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster

Υπάρχει μια έκφραση στα Γερμανικά που αναφέρεται σε απελπιστικά αδιεξοδες καταστάσεις και μεταφράζεται ως "να έχεις βουλιάξει μέχρι το λαιμο μέσα στα σκατά" bis zum Hals in der Scheiße stecken. Δεν αποκλείεται εδώ να έχουμε την αφετηρία της.

[sman5]

Σενεκα εσυ ήσουν που ειχες ανοίξει ατο παλιό ένα νημα σχετικά με την υγιεινή στις μεσαιωνικές πόλεις;

[Σενέκας]

Σενεκα εσυ ήσουν που ειχες ανοίξει ατο παλιό ένα νημα σχετικά με την υγιεινή στις μεσαιωνικές πόλεις;

Δε νομίζω, δε θυμάμαι κάτι

[Σενέκας]

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