At this time too in Germany, special places put aside for the mad were referred to in contemporary literature: first the Narrh uslein in Nuremberg, then in a building for the insane and the 'disobedient sick' (ungehorsame Kranke) was constructed in the hospital at Frankfurt; and in Hamburg mention is made of a cista stolidorum (literally, 'the basket for fools'), also known as custodia fatuorum (the prison for the insane) in.