Eva Hohenschildin

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Eichstätt - the place where the Hohenschildin lived and died

Eva Hohenschildin (also Kochmichel's wife in Rosengasse) (* 1584 in Wemding ; † July 18, 1620 in Eichstätt ) was a victim of the witch persecution from the time of the height of the persecution in Eichstätt .

The witch hunts

Interrogation in a witch trial
Portrait of Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Westerstetten - he ruled during the Hohenschildin trial

The witch persecution in the Hochstift Eichstätt lasted from 1532 to 1723. At least 249 people (219 women, 30 men) were arrested on suspicion of witchcraft. Most of them, 224 (197 women, 27 men) were proven to have been sentenced to death and executed there. The focus of the persecutions were the years 1613 to 1630 during the reign of Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Westerstetten . Most of the victims came from Eichstätt itself. The high point was the year 1620, when 25 women were executed. Cathedral pastor Johann Reichard was arrested in 1624 and kept in prison for 20 years until his death, although he did not make a confession.

See main article witch persecution in the Hochstift Eichstätt .

Life

Eva Hohenschild was born and raised in Wemding, her father, a farmer, was called Michael Hiebner, her mother was Apolonia Hieberin. She married Michael Hohenschild (Kochmichels), landlord and cook in the Rosengasse in Eichstätt. During their 16-year marriage, she had no children from him, but before they were married, she had given birth to the girl Margaretha, who was still alive when she was captured and was raised in her home. Other family members of her husband: Sister Els, wife of the Swabian Erler in Altenbürg, and her daughter Annalein von Ingolstadt, as well as her Geschweyen Thoma Margettlin in Bartelweg.

Course of the witch trial

She was arrested on April 28, 1620 and interrogated by the witch commissioners. She said she was completely innocent because of witchcraft. Ask for God's sake, they want to leave you satisfied for the sake of witchcraft. ”Executioner M. Mathes found a whitish witch's mark on her left hip. She said: “I don't know what to say about witchcraft, it goes the same as God will.” In the torture chamber she said: “For the sake of the Last Judgment and God's sake, whether you can then get on with something that you have nothing to do with know, force and want to compel. "

When she was tied up, she cried out to God to do a sign. When she was being brought up, she shouted, “if one should leave all her limbs, she would know nothing to say.” How could “one have hearts of stone like this!” She said, “if anyone is so wronged as you will be so Injustice will be done to everyone in the future too. ”“ She is as innocent as a child in the cradle, as God lives in heaven, she cannot say anything about witchcraft. ”

When the torture intensified, she confessed to denial of God, devil pact , devil 's allegiance , and damaging spells . She asked "for the sake of the Last Judgment not to drive her any further, wanted her heart to be open just like her hand, so that one would now want to see what was inside". After being tortured again on April 30, 1620, she confessed that she had harmed meadows, pigs, horses and people with powder from the devil and that she had taken part in the Witches' Sabbath .

She was interrogated until June 27 and denounced 56 people under threat of further torture. On July 18, 1620 she was publicly executed by the sword together with Kunigunde Sterzl , Helena Schneckin and Barbara Freyin and then burned. She bequeathed 400 guilders.

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literature

  • Jonathan B. Durrant: Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany , Leiden (Brill) 2008 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 124) Witches Trials Eichstätt
  • Wolfgang Buchta: The Urgichten in the Urfehdebuch of the Eichstätt City Court: on the history of the witch hunt in southern Franconia . Yearbook for Franconian regional research. Volume 58, 1998, pp. 219-250

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stürzl, On the persecution of witches in the upper pen of the Hochstift Eichstätt. Addendum to: Executions for witchcraft in Eichstätt. In: Leaflets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies. Self-published, Munich. 2016 , p. 136 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenschildin, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kochmichel's wife in the Rosengasse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German witch trial victim
DATE OF BIRTH 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH Wemding
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1620
Place of death Eichstatt