Dorothea Flock

Dorothea Flock (also called the Flockin) (* 1608 in Nuremberg ; † May 17, 1630 in Bamberg ) was a victim of the witch hunt under the government of Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim .

Life

Today's house at Lange Straße 32

Dorothea Flock came from the Hofmann patrician family from Nuremberg. Her brother was in the imperial service. In 1629 she married the wealthy Bamberg councilor Georg Heinrich Flock, who lives at Langen Strasse 32. She converted from Protestant to Catholicism. She still had Nuremberg citizenship. The first wife of Georg Heinrich Flock, Apolonia, was executed in Bamberg in 1628 in a witch trial .

Representation and floor plan of the Drudenhaus

Dorothea Flock was anonymously accused of adultery at the end of 1629, but she was able to escape from custody. She later turned in because she was six months pregnant. Arrested again, she was charged with witchcraft and placed in heavy chains in the Bamberg Drudenhaus . Her husband tried to take action against her arrest with the help of a Nuremberg notary. Despite her pregnancy, she was tortured, contrary to the provisions of the imperial Constitutio Criminalis Carolina . The rumor went that "everything happens to Flockin because she has converted". A petition from the city council of Nuremberg to the Bamberg prince-bishop Johann Georg II. Fuchs von Dornheim was unsuccessful.

A Supplication (d. H. Petition) her family to the imperial Reichshofrat in Vienna caused a mandate of 18 March 1630, but the archbishop had it first unanswered. A child, a girl, was born to the Flockin while in custody. After five weeks it was taken away from the mother and placed in the care of the councilor Pankras Lorenz. The mother was brought back to the Drudenhaus and put in heavy shackles. On May 11, 1630, the Reichshofrat issued a second, more stringent mandate against Bishop Johann Georg II - without success.

Under torture, the flockin put a confession of witchcraft from: devil's pact , sex with the Devil , host desecration u. a. She was sentenced to death on May 14th . In the meantime, her husband Flock had stood up for her with the Pope. Pope Urban VIII had issued a decree in Rome on April 20, 1630 to save her. But before the arrival of the papal letter of Bamberg Prince Bishop Dorothea let Flock on May 17, 1630 to death - mercy's sake with the sword - not the usual public but secret. Her body was cremated.

See also

• Christina Morhaubt
• Johannes Junius
• Katharina Haan

literature

• State Bibl. BA Msc. 148/580 ff, 630 ff, 762; Sim 86
• Britta Gehm: The witch hunt in the Bamberg monastery and the intervention of the Reichshofrat to end it (=  legal history and civilization process ). 2nd, revised edition. Olms, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-487-14731-4 .
• Ralph Kloos and Thomas Göltl: The witch burners of Franconia . Erfurt 2012. ISBN 978-3-95400-109-5 . Pp. 73-77.
• Heike Eva Schmidt: Purple Moon . Novel. PAN, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-28366-0 .

Novel and film adaptation

• Sabine Weigand : The souls in the fire . Novel. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8105-2663-2 .
• The ZDF feature film Die Seelen im Feuer from 2014, based on the novel of the same name by Sabine Weigand, takes up the time of the witch persecution in Bamberg.

Web links

• Dorothea Flock executed in Bamberg in 1630 for alleged witchcraft Video
• Documents on the Dorothea Flock case in the virtual witch burner museum
• Witch interrogation of 14-year-old Daniel Bittl from Bamberg. on: bamberga.de
• Katharina Haan - when witches were persecuted in the Bamberg Monastery (17th century). on: eo-bamberg.de
• Victims of the witch trials in Bamberg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Msc. 148, 584 / StabiblBA Sim 86
2. ↑ Press information from ZDF on the premiere of "Die Seelen im Feuer" in July 2014