Jasper Hanebuth

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Hanebuth's birthplace in Groß-Buchholz , in front of it the renamed sculpture "Hanebuth's last victim"
Information board from the Pinkenburger Kreis to the birthplace of Hanebuth
“Hanebuth's Block” at the Zoological Garden
Postcard number “283”, around 1898 by Karl F. Wunder
Large socket torso XX , "... Hanebuth's last victim"
The entrance of Hanebuths Gang Am Hohen Ufer forms a line with the portal of the Royal Court Marble and the Kreuzkirche .
The Weißkreuzstein near the Lister Meile

Jasper Hanebuth (* 1607 ( baptized February 8, 1607) in Groß-Buchholz near Hanover ; † February 4, 1653 in Hanover) was a mercenary in the Thirty Years' War and a robber and murderer .

Life

Jasper Hanebuth was born on the "Hof Pieper", a half-timbered complex at Groß-Buchholzer Kirchweg 72 that was rebuilt after a hurricane in 1831 and is now a listed building . He was a son of the Vollmeiers Hans Hanebuth , a Kötner in Groß-Buchholz.

Jasper Hanebuth became a mercenary in the Swedish service during the Thirty Years War . During the war he acquired the citizenship of the city of Hanover, but soon lost it again because he did not pay his tax debts.

Later he became a predator mainly in the Eilenriede , a forest area near today's Hanover Zoo . He carried out some of his attacks together with others, including Caspar Reusche and Hänschen von Rode, a descendant of an old Hanoverian patrician family. He often shot his victims from a distance without knowing whether they could find any money.

Hanebuth is portrayed as a raw person whose tantrums were feared. He is an example of the everyday violence and brutalization of morals after the end of the Thirty Years' War. His “robber bride” was one of his victims.

Most recently, Hanebuth hired himself out as a horse dealer until he was charged with stealing a horse and arrested on November 14, 1652. But then he confessed to ten thefts and 19 murders . Despite repeated threats of torture , "meticulously according to the rules of the" embarrassing neck court order "" in the Ratskeller of the (old) town hall , his confessions of guilt also raised doubts. But after almost a year in prison, the neck court sentenced him on 3/4. February 1653, "to be judged with the wheel by breaking his limbs from life to death".

On February 4, 1653 robber Hanebuth was at the execution site in front of the stone gate by wheels executed.

aftermath

Hanebuth is still present in the minds of Hanoverians today:

  • A number of legends surrounding the robber cannot be confirmed on the basis of historical sources; According to the legend, he stretched a cord across the Waldchausee, which was connected with a little bell, so that it could be rung when merchants came by. Nor did he have his home in a robber's den in the Eilenriede. Likewise, it has not been proven that he supported the poor from the nearby village of Groß-Buchholz with his booty.
  • A cross that existed at the beginning of the Steintorfeld from the time before the execution of Jasper Hanebuth was later incorrectly assigned to the event, but then gave its name to the White Cross Square on the Lister Meile, so named in 1929 .
  • At the turn of the 19th century there were postcards with the motif of "Hanebuth's Block" on the ship ditch in front of the entrance building of the zoo.
  • The street Hanebuthwinkel, laid out in 1967 in Groß-Buchholz on the Eilenriede near the tax thief, is named after the robber.
  • Since 1991 the information board “Hof Pieper” at the Hanebuth homestead has been reminding of the criminal .
  • The sculpture “Großer Sockeltorso XX”, a work by the sculptor Waldemar Otto from 1986 and on loan from the Stübler Gallery, was set up in front of the house where Jasper Hanebuth was born . An additional sign was attached to the concrete base below the armless sculpture with the inscription "Robber Hanebuths last victim".
  • The historical novel The Concubine of the Murderer by Bettina Szrama , published in 2010, refers to Hanebuth , in which Hanebuth experiences “a resurrection as a dark hero”.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jasper Hanebuth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Zimmermann: Hanebuth, Jasper . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 252.
  2. ↑ a b “Hof Pieper” information board from the Pinkenburger Kreis .
  3. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Groß-Buchholz . In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1 , Vol. 10.2. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 74ff .; and Groß-Buchholz , in annex: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985 , p. 17
  4. ↑ a b Simone Benne: Hanover's robbery Hanebuth and his legendary fame , HAZ from February 19, 2010
  5. ^ Hugo Thielen : Köster (also Koster, Kuster, Küster), Peter. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 361.
  6. ↑ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer: 1653. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 52.
  7. ↑ Photo by Stefan Arend .
  8. ^ Postcard number "283" by Karl F. Wunder .
  9. ↑ Information board on loan
  10. ↑ inscription .
  11. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library.
personal data
SURNAME Hanebuth, Jasper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION robber
DATE OF BIRTH 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Buchholz near Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1653
Place of death Hanover