Steinheim High Court

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Gallows at the high court

The Steinheim High Court is a place of execution near Hanau-Steinheim , a district of Hanau .

location

The execution site is in the northwest area of the district Gross-Steinheim, today in a wooded area, and is publicly available. An elevation on which the place of execution probably originally stood can hardly be seen today. Today a forest path leads between the two supporting stone pillars, a completely unhistorical situation.

design type

What has been preserved is a double-sleeper gallows , of which the two supporting pillars , built from the rubble of bubble basalt, have been preserved up to a height of 5 meters. The wooden beam or iron rod originally lying above no longer exists. The facility is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

history

The Steinheim High Court was the place of execution for the Steinheim Office . It was built under the von Eppstein family and continued to be used after the office was sold to Kurmainz in 1425. The oldest surviving pictorial representation comes from a general view of the Steinheim district in 1579. Since then, there seem to have been no structural changes. The last execution took place here in the 18th century.

literature

  • Jost Auler : Catalog of preserved high dishes in Germany and some neighboring countries . In: Ders .: Place of execution archeology . Dormagen 2008, p. 312, ISBN
  • Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krumm, p. 387f.
  2. ↑ State Archives Würzburg , Mainzer Jurisdictionalbuch 26, Bl. 99.
  3. ↑ Krumm, p. 387f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 34.4 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 8.5 ″  E