Dungeon
Dungeon (from Latin carcer, prison ) is the old name for prison.
History
Until the Second World War in Germany was imprisonment stricter imprisonment as opposed to jail and prison. Imprisonment was imposed in particular for military offenses. In Austria, the prison sentence was abolished by the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1974 and replaced by the general form of detention criminal detention.
Synonyms
Dungeon
When the talk of the Middle Ages, there is no difference between the terms dungeon and prison. Later dungeon was then used for the more severe form of punishment.
Betzekämmerchen
Betzekämmerchen were visible from outer space in public buildings, which served primarily the display of the delinquent and not of detention. Exposed to the ridicule of the passers-by was serving the delinquent a non- degrading punishment for the commission of lighter offenses.
Detention
The term detention is also a derivative of Latin carcer, but refers to the ( slight ) Arrest that could be imposed until the 19th century at universities for students.
Dungeon
A dungeon was a castle or city-owned prison, mostly in the ( windowless ) basement or the lowest part of a fortress ( casemates ), a tower ( donjon ) in the Middle Ages. Often it was only accessible through the ceiling via a single opening, called a fear hole. The Low German word dungeon is "lose" with related and arrived in the 18th century in the written language. An earlier meaning is lost (Dutch dungeon ) and later " get lost ", are invisible to others.