Approximately 60 are killed in the Erfurt latrine disaster

When

26 Jul 1184

Kind

Event

Coordinates

50.98° N, 11.03° E

Description

Approximately 60 are killed in the Erfurt latrine disaster.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Erfurt latrine disaster.

12th-century accident in the Holy Roman Empire

On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit below. They were attending a Hoftag conducted by King Henry VI when their combined weight caused the floor of the building to collapse. Some of the attendees drowned in human waste after falling into the cesspit.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim königlichen Hoftag in Erfurt kommt es zum Erfurter Latrinensturz, einem Unfall”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un plancher s'effondre durant la diète d'Erfurt : 60 morts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page