Habakkuk Schmauch
Habakuk Schmauch is a legendary figure of the 15th century from the region around the city of Brandenburg an der Havel , whose historical background is unclear.
Legend
Habakuk Schmauch is said to have been a robber chief. He and his gang attacked and robbed merchant trains on what was then the main trading street, Heerstraße Brandenburg – Magdeburg . The gang's hideaway was the Thieves' Ground , an Ice Age valley on the edge of the Karower Platte south of Lake Möser . This thief's reason is located in the Neustädtische Heide , an extensive forest area which, at the assumed time of Schmauch, belonged to the independent Neustadt .
After a robbery on a merchant's train, the gang kidnapped a merchant's daughter who made Habakkuk his wife. This was bound by an oath not to tell anyone about the gang's hiding place. When the opportunity arose, however, she fled to the New Town, where she kneeled in front of the statue of Roland , which was still there at the time, and complained of her suffering. She wanted to show him the way to the gang. Citizens of the new town, who heard the girl, notified the town council . A group of armed men then succeeded in overpowering Habakuk Schmauch and his gang and imprisoning them. After he was sentenced to death, Schmauch was said to have been beaten at the place of execution in Neustadt an der Heerstrasse, at the Büttelhandfassgraben .
Individual evidence
- ↑ History: In the 15th Century , accessed December 22, 2016
- ↑ Habakuk Schmauch , accessed April 17, 2015
- ↑ August Kuhn: Der Freimüthige , entertainment sheet for educated and unbiased readers, p. 822 f, published on December 26, 1823
- ↑ Trust is good, control would have been better, or the beautiful councilor's daughter and Roland. , accessed December 22, 2016