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Schandmantel, also known as a Schandtonne or Spanish coat, was a torture device.
Its first appearance was from the 13th century. The Schandmantels, which were manufactured from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal, were used to punish the honourless. The Schandmantel was often used to punish delinquents who were accused of poaching or being prostitutes.
While in the coat victims could be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them by onlookers. It behaved thus as with the "Lästersteinen". The Schandtonne partly contained at the lower edge as well as at the neck opening weights, in order to increase the agony of the delinquent without being fatal.
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