With the advent of Christianity and personal hygiene has been demonized as vanity, as the "worship of the body" through personal care, according to the church was considered sinful. Washed monks have therefore only 2x a year - but just for the male population, there were so-called bath houses (more a brothel disguised as a bath house), in which one (s) bathed naked and of course a thorn in the eye of the Church. But poor could benefit from a bath, there were foundations to do so.
This bathing culture, however, died in the 16 Century completely, since epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases and the Übetragung were often associated with the bath water factory.
The idea of public toilets, as it were customary in the Roman Empire, has gone probably lost during the migration. Thus, used in medieval times either a type of chamber pot, or carried out his business on the road in place.
Only the higher nobility had an abortion usually somewhere in his castle, so a squat toilet in an alcove in which was the call of nature along the wall in the deep. That must have been for a rather cold in winter and not always completely odor-free, especially in summer. Toilet paper of course there was none, and even underpants generally only the lords of creation were given before.
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