Cucking stool

Bäckerschupfen or baker's baptism was in the Middle Ages a form of punishment for bakers, bread which manufactured low-weight or of poor quality.

Such punishment was often celebrated by the people as a kind of folk festival, in which the baker was publicly pilloried. The guilty Spoken was immersed in a Schandkorb ( Schupfe, Prelle ) or by means of a rocker several times in water or debris, in addition, he was pelted and humiliated by those present with stones.

A corresponding apparatus for performing together with historical anecdote about such a baker can be seen in Roth bei Nürnberg and in the Mill Museum in Gifhorn.