Holding device for a lithotripsy device for fragmenting calculi, and lithotripsy device

A holding device configured for a lithotripsy device and configured for fragmenting calculi, the holding device comprising:

• a housing configured to accommodate assemblies and/or components, and the housing comprising a distal end and a proximal end and a sonotrode being connectable to the distal end, arranged within the housing there being, as an assembly, an acceleration tube with a longitudinal center axis, a cavity, a proximal end, and a distal end, and with a movable projectile within the cavity configured for shock excitation of the sonotrode, a proximal-side abutment element arranged at the proximal end, and a distal-side abutment element arranged at the distal end of the acceleration tube, and
• the holding device being assignable a force generation apparatus configured to generate a force to move the projectile back and/or forth between the proximal-side abutment element and the distal-side abutment element, and, as an assembly, a vibration excitation apparatus configured to excite vibrations of the sonotrode and a vibration damping apparatus being arranged in the housing,
• wherein the vibration damping apparatus comprises at least one mass and at least two spring elements with two ends each, the at least two spring elements contacting the mass with their respective one end and at least one spring element, with its second end, contacting an inner surface of the housing.