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Controlling Prostitution: Everyday Life in the Late Medieval Austrian Frauenhaus

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"Expel prostitution from human issues and you will annihilate everything with desire" – Augustine 

With these desperate expressions of caution from Augustine, even Ecclesiastics saw the advantage of keeping places with a history of shameful behavior working in medieval urban areas. 

Prostitution was a bad habit that was viewed as a vital fiendishness in the Middle Ages since it was a way to control "men's desire". Ministers felt that if massage parlors weren't accessible to men in urban communities, they would discover other unseemly outlets for their diversion and jeopardize the prudence of pure ladies. With an end goal to counteract potential issues, urban authorities allowed prostitution to work inside the city dividers inasmuch as it was managed and turned a benefit. 

Teacher Michael M. Pound (Institut für Geschichte, Universität Graz), talked about the control of prostitution in Late Medieval and Early Modern Austria. City experts perceived the convenience of prostitution in the Late Middle Ages and gained by making benefits from houses of ill-repute. They were named "Frauenhaus", generally deciphered as, 'House for Common Women'. Committee records gave itemized data on the organization of houses of ill-repute, and recorded all misconducts. Account books gave Hammer a thought of the sorts of installments made to, and taken from the whorehouses. He represented his point utilizing the previous Austrian city of Bolzano (now Italy). 

Contextual investigation 

In 1472, the Council of Bolzano built up a house of ill-repute for the 'gutted Fräulein' to live and to maintain a strategic distance from a more noteworthy underhandedness, as sketched out by Augustine. Whorehouses in Bolzano were situated close to the executioner's home, or on the edges of the city, much like whores were consigned to the edges of society. The yearly lease was £70 and each Frauenhaus held around 12-13 whores. The house of ill-repute manager changed by and large at regular intervals yet this could be a more extended or shorter period. The massage parlor guardians were confirmed by the leader and in urban communities like Vienna, whorehouse attendants were just ladies. Pound noticed that managers seemed to work as meager superior to anything cutting edge pimps, saying that, 'In a few urban areas, the house of ill-repute guardians ruthlessly constrained the whores under their control'. Once a lady was in a house of ill-repute, there was minimal possibility she could get out. Directions controlled whores inside the massage parlors, down to what they were permitted to wear, for instance, there was a law that stipulated whores were precluded from wearing any adornments in the city of Bolzano. Their lives were presented to viciousness and ruthlessness as massage parlor guardians were allowed to brutally train their whores. 

Decay of the Brothel 

Despite tight city controls, urban communities experienced issues with shielding ravaging warriors from attacking the massage parlors. Notwithstanding this issue, was the issue of clearing religious change all through Europe. With the happening to Lutheranism and another feeling of ethical quality, houses of ill-repute fell into decrease. Martin Luther lectured wildly against prostitution and requested the massage parlors shut. He didn't trust massage parlors were 'a fundamental shrewdness' or security valve to shield blameless ladies from the desires of men, accordingly completely invalidating Augustine's prior reprobations. While the calling surely incredible the way Luther had trusted, the turn of the tide in religious conviction certainly affected the previous thriving of numerous house of ill-repute proprietors and didn't really filled the coffers of ravenous city authorities. 

As yet continuing the subject of prostitution, Christopher Mielke (Central European University, Budapest) turned our consideration from Austria to Hungary in his paper, The Best Little Whorehouses in Hungary: The Topography of Brothels in the Free Royal Towns. Mielke is routinely has a podcast on CEU's Medieval Radio in Budapest, a station devoted to music (pre-1700), history and culture. 

He resounded Hammer's remarks about normal ladies being an essential abhorrence in medieval towns, however his paper concentrated more on a talk about the area whorehouses in 4 Hungarian free imperial urban areas. 

Sopron, Hungary 

Sopron is a city situated on the Austrian-Hungarian outskirt. The massage parlor in Sopron was situated in the northern end of the city, in the principal ring of rural areas between 1330-1380. Greater city whorehouses were set up where there were exchange courses, or close to the water so they were open to well off shippers going through the city. 

Košice, Eastern Slovakia 

At first populated by German dealers, Košice is a Slovakian city situated close to the Hungarian fringe. The massage parlor in the city was situated on the eastern fringe, far from the market. Similarly as with Sopron, the house of ill-repute was situated by one of the town entryways and close to the water inside the city dividers. 

Bratislava, Western Slovakia 

Bratislava is situated close to the Austrian and Hungarian fringes. In the Middle Ages, the house of ill-repute was situated in a genuinely worthwhile position, close to the southern city door, otherwise called, 'the angler's entryway'. It was utilized as a house of ill-repute into 1432 when it was requested out to suburbia, in 1439, the massage parlor was moved toward the eastern piece of suburbia. 

Buda, Hungary 

In a 1437 archive, in the Castle Hill range, there were 322 houses, one piece of information as to where the massage parlor may have been found, was 'Rose Street'. In Sopron, the whorehouse was additionally situated on 'Rose Street'. The greater part of the known massage parlors were set up in the fourteenth century, including 3 open shower houses from sixteenth century Buda. 

What Were the Similarities? 

Mielke found that all massage parlors began off being close water, near, or inside town dividers, close town doors, purposes of passage, and regions of high activity, not in commonly "minimal positions".











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