Gallows Mudau

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Gallows Mudau

The gallows Mudau lies in a south-east direction about 1.2 kilometers away from Mudau at the highest point of an old road crossing. He is a witness of an era in which Mudau was still the seat of its own administrative and judicial district . In 1271, the Archbishop of Mainz became the head of the Mudau district, which also made the community a place of justice.

The Central Court (comparable to today's District Court ) usually met twice a year, on the 4th Sunday after Easter and after Martini episcopi (November 11th). The chairmanship was held by the Zentgraf , in whose absence the oldest alderman .

The court court (now the regional court ), also located in Mudau, was responsible for the jurisdiction in serious cases. This met “Unter den Linden” at the town hall. It imposed prison terms that had to be served in Mudau prison or dungeon . If the death penalty was pronounced, the convict had to walk through the "lower gate" of the fortification of the market town to the gallows . There he was then executed in the presence of the court and numerous onlookers. The last recorded execution was in the 1760s .

With funding from the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park , the gallows was renovated by the municipality in 1987. A notice board with a historical background informs the interested visitor. The adjacent area with the housing estate is still called “Am Galgen” today.

In Odenwald another execution site is still preserved, the Beerfelder gallows .

literature

  • Slama, Hans, 900 years of Mudauer Odenwald, Vom Fronhofsverband zur Gemeinde Mudau , 2002, ISBN 3-929295-88-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mudau cultural and historical circular route, station 16, text panel city ​​wall and gallows
  2. ^ Albert, On the local history of Rumpfen in the 17th and 18th centuries , in Der Wartturm - Heimatblätter for the Baden Franconia , No. 9, June 1935, pages 35-36. Albert refers to the court Buch des Fleckens Rumpffen , 1612 - 1793, in the Bezirksmuseum Buchen , inv. 105
  3. ^ Theodor Humpert : Mudau im Odenwald , 1954, self-published by the Mudau community, pages 68-69

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '29.2 "  N , 9 ° 12' 53.3"  E