UNIVERSITÄT Heiderberg, Germany. Entrance ticket to the Old University's Karzers (1961)

UNIVERSITÄT
Heiderberg

Entrance ticket, Series B, Nº 25698, to the Old University's Karzer (prison cell). 
DM -,30

(1961)

A Karzer was a place of detention designated for the incarceration of students as punishment, within the jurisdiction of some educational institutions in Germany and German-speaking universities abroad. The American writer Mark Twain wrote about the karzer in Heidelberg in his book "A Tramp Abroad" (1880).

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