Hanau Supreme Court

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The Hanau High Court is the former place of execution of the Hanau High Court .

Situation in the disused barracks area in July 2011.
View from the back

location

The place of execution is in the area of ​​the former Old-Argonner-Kaserne in the south of the Hanau-Wolfgang district of the city of Hanau . At the time it was used, it was in the open, in the so-called Lehrhöfer Heide far from the city gates. Today it is surrounded by residential buildings of the US Army and some outbuildings of the currently vacant barracks.

design type

It is an approximately 2 meter high quarry stone enclosure that is filled with earth. It has a diameter of about 13 m. An interior staircase leads from the south to this platform. Since executions were carried out here exclusively with the sword , the platform had no structure. The facility is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

history

The facility was built in 1839 by the Electorate of Hesse as a replacement for the historic place of execution of the Hanau High Court , which was handed down from the Middle Ages . This older place of execution was in the district of Hanau-Kesselstadt , between Kesselstadt and Dörnigheim , on the road to Frankfurt and within sight of Philippsruhe Castle . There was also a gallows here . In 1834 it was demolished and the material used to build the new execution site.

The new place of execution, built in 1839, was last used in January 1861 when the murderer Nolte was beheaded there in a public execution . More than 12,000 people are said to have watched the execution. In 1926 the complex was restored as a cultural monument . Since a barracks was built in its vicinity from 1937 , which the US Army used after the Second World War , the facility has not been open to the public for a long time.

literature

  • Jost Auler : Catalog of preserved high dishes in Germany and some neighboring countries . In: Ders .: Place of execution archeology . Dormagen 2008, p. 313. ISBN
  • Erich Brücher: Pensioner Nolte. A Hessian criminal affair about the murder of Emilie Lotheisen in 1859 - the last Hanau execution . Bad Nauheim 1964.
  • Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversion areas of the city of Hanau
  2. ^ Krumm, p. 592.
  3. ↑ So Krumm, p. 592, Auler mentions the year 1834.
  4. ↑ Death sentence in Hanau: Judged with the sword. Frankfurter Rundschau from January 6, 2011.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 58.8 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 13.6 ″  E