Executioner's House (Bernau near Berlin)
The executioner's house is a listed residential building in the center of Bernau near Berlin (Brandenburg). It was built in the first half of the 18th century as a half-timbered house in post construction. When the building was rebuilt in the 19th century, it received its plastered facade that is still present today.
The back of the building ends with the wall ring of the medieval city fortifications. The house served as the town's executioner's office until the mid-19th century .
A department of the Bernau Local History Museum has been located in the building since 1976 . An exhibition presents the history of execution. The reconstructed black kitchen bears witness to everyday life from the 17th to the 19th century. Another exhibition deals with the attack by the Hussites on the city in 1432.
In the chronicle of Tobias Seiler 1736 the names of 25 women and 3 men are listed who were tried by witches between 1536 and 1658 in Bernau , including the trial of Dorothea Meermann .
The artist Annelie Grund created the memorial for the victims of the witch trials in Bernau next to the executioner's house with the inscription: Accused of witchcraft , tortured, killed . It was inaugurated on October 31, 2005.
- Witch memorial in Bernau
overall view
List of victims 1
List of victims 2
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Bernau Local History Museum - The Executioner's House
- Names of the victims of the witch trials / witch persecution in Bernau (accessed on July 1, 2015)
- Witch trials Bernau
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 48 " N , 13 ° 35 ′ 7.3" E