Gallows (Döllersheim)
The walled gallows of Döllersheim was a place of execution in Lower Austria . At the time of its description by the Austrian Art Topography , the gallows no longer existed.
description
The place of execution with the gallows of Döllersheim was about one kilometer west of the market on a wooded hill called Spielberg.
It consisted of three columns made of rubble and arranged in a triangle, five meters high and three meters in circumference, which rested on cube-shaped substructures. These columns were connected with wooden beams to which the ropes were attached.
In 1903 the gallows was torn down. The rubble was used as road construction material.
In the Waldviertel there are similarly constructed gallows in Arbesbach , Niederfladnitz and Kirchberg am Walde .
Vacation marter
A prismatic pillar made of rubble and bricks stood near the gallows . At the top it had three square openings.
The stone pillar was called a vacation marter because it was here that the convicts probably said goodbye to their relatives (= vacation).
literature
- Austrian art topography, published by the Imperial and Royal Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume VIII, The Monuments of the Political District of Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey), Part 1: Allentsteig Judicial District , commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna , 1911
- German settlement company: The old homeland - description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim , Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH in Eger, Berlin 1942
Footnotes
- ^ German settlement society: The old home