Witch burning in Derenburg

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Burning of witches in Derenburg am Harz. Flyer, printed in Nuremberg by Jörg Merckel in 1555

No files have survived about the burning of witches in Derenburg am Harz in Saxony-Anhalt in 1555 and 1556. A contemporary single-leaf woodcut , of which there is also a colored version, describes the witch burnings of 1555.

In addition, the magazine Neue non-profit papers reported in 1796 from Halberstadt on the witch trial against Ursel Hufnerin.

Single sheet print about the burning of two women, the Gröbische and the Gißler

The leaflet "A terrifying story / so about Derneburg in the Graffschaff Reinsteyn / located on the Hartz / by three sorceress / and two men / in every day of the month of Octobris in 1555. Jare was made" is a so-called witch's newspaper (extended fiends Zeyttung ), which were typical for the witch hunt in southern Germany. It was printed in Nuremberg by Jörg Merckel. The basis for this was the cremation of the Gröbische and Gißlerchen, two women accused of sorcery, which took place in Derenburg in the county of Regenstein on October 1, 1555 . The Gröbische confessed that she had bred the devil for 11 years. When she was chained to the pillar on the pile of wood and the fire lit, her lover, Satan, had come and, for everyone to see, led her into the air.

Two days later, on October 3, 1555, the two burned women are said to have returned to Derenburg "bede eytel fewrig" and danced around the fire in Gißler's house. They would have pushed the Gißler's husband out of the door of his house so roughly that he fell to his death in front of his neighbors.

On October 12, 1555, the coarse's husband was executed for fornication and adultery with the sister of his executed wife. Two days later, a third woman ultimately died from a fire. Serckschen had been accused of having "forgiven" the wife of Halberstadt monastery governor Achatius von Veltheim and of having dug a toad under the threshold of a man in Derenburg. The man then became lame and had a fever.

Here you can see - according to the conclusion of the leaflet - how the devil stings around himself with his poison and how many people fall for it in a few days once the devil has settled in a place. The Derenburg example should have a deterrent effect.

Witch trial against Ursel Hufnerin

In 1655 two women in Derenburg called Ursel Hufner's name under torture and three other women called witches . Other rumors about the Hufner were: she had betrayed her own husband and got involved with his brother, a swineherd who had a wife and two children, for many years.

The defendant was arrested on December 28, 1655 and questioned on December 29, 1655 amicably, that is, without torture . Then the territion followed . She was taken to the ladder and tortured with leg screws . She made a confession under the torture. Her execution took place on February 16, 1656.

literature

  • Monika Lücke , Dietrich Lücke: witch trials in the territory of the diocese of Halberstadt. In: History and Culture of the Diocese of Halberstadt. Symposium. Protocol volume 2006, p. 685.
  • Working group Stadtgeschichte Derenburg eV: Derenburg am Harz: Pictures from the past and present , (illustrated book). 1997, p. 13

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.arnt-web.de/faust/bilder/gross/g67.jpg
  2. http://www.bildindex.de/obj16001111.html#%7Chome
  3. http://www.bildindex.de/obj00230598.html#%7Chome
  4. Ursel Hufners, one, unfortunately! Witch burned to death in Halberstadt. Pulled from the investigation files. In: New non-profit paper. , 6th year, 1st volume, Halberstadt 1796, Delius, pp. 49-64.
  5. Wolfgang Behringer: The persecution of witches as reflected in contemporary journalism: the "Erweytterte Unholden Zeyttung" from 1590 (PDF; 4.5 MB), Upper Bavarian Archive. - 109. 1984, 2, pp. 339-360, footnote no. 20, p. 343.
  6. Verbatim copy of the text of the leaflet
  7. Monika Lücke, Walter Zöllner: Hunting witches in the early modern period in the area of ​​Saxony-Anhalt
  8. ^ Burning of the witches in Derenburg
  9. Ursel Hufners, one, unfortunately! Witch burned to death in Halberstadt. Taken from the investigation files , in: New non-profit papers, 6th vol., 1st volume, Halberstadt, 1796, Delius, pp. 49–64
  10. ^ Burning of the witches in Derenburg
  11. Steffen Schnieders: Course of a witch trial . Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  12. Viktor von Fossel: Salzwasser (Ed.): Studies for the History of Medicine 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-3405-7 . P. 103 DNB 1036929787
  13. ^ Renate Peine: The social role of women in Halberstadt from the Middle Ages to 1990 , Halberstadt, 1996, p. 25ff.