Johann Muckel

Carl Maria Seyppel : The Muggle

Johann Muckel (born December 9, 1814 in Lintorf , † September 18, 1882 in Düsseldorf ) was a poacher who lived with his family in Düsseldorf from 1845 and became a Düsseldorf original .

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Life

As a poacher who hunted game for his buyers in the old town of Düsseldorf in the hunting grounds of Counts Hatzfeld and Spee , but occasionally also as a wood thief, he repeatedly cheated hunting rangers , police officers and customs officers. This earned him the recognition of many Düsseldorfers who celebrated the poacher "Muggel", as they called him, and his ability to repeatedly evade the grip of the authorities with glee in the pubs in the old town.

"Ett Kaschott" and Pastor Jääsch. On a plaque on the remains of the wall in Schulstrasse, where the prison was located.

Every now and then "Muggle" was caught poaching. The prison sentences imposed on him - it is said to have been over eighty, as "Muggel" boasted towards the end of his life - he served in the official "Royal Detention Center and Correctionsanstalt " , known by the Düsseldorf population as "ett Kaschott" in the old town . There he was under the care of Friedrich Gerst (Pastor Jääsch) , who was also known as the Düsseldorf Original, until his departure (1857 ) .

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Prince of Prussia , who from 1821 to 1848 resided as commander of a Prussian cuirassier regiment in Jägerhof Palace, turned to the Prussian king around 1847 with a petition for clemency for the “Muggel poacher”. "Muggle" was serving a term of imprisonment for the physical abuse of a game warden who hit him in the act and tried to arrest him. Incidentally, the poacher “Muggel” was the grandfather of “ Pitter Muggel ”, Johann Anton Hubert Wilhelm Muckel, who originally lived in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel on the left bank of the Rhine in the first half of the 20th century . On September 18, 1882, the poacher "Muggel" died in a hospital in Düsseldorf's old town.

reception

A long-established old town pub in Düsseldorf kept the memory of the "Muggel poacher" alive. It was the fun bar "Zum Wilddieb", which used to be located on Hohe Strasse, which moved to the former " Manneken Pis " premises at Burgplatz 16 in October 1997 and which no longer exists today.

The Muggle was drawn by Carl Maria Seyppel in the 1870-1880s. Since he was a guest of the restaurant and brewery "zum Schiffchen" , Georg Spickhoff paid tribute to him in April 1928 in a commemorative publication on the occasion of the company's three-hundredth anniversary.

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literature

• Hans Seyppel: The Muggle . In: "Düsseldorfer Originals von anno dazumal", Volume 1, Verlag Dieter T. Ewers, Düsseldorf 1977;
• Hans Seyppel: You six Muggles . In: “Düsseldorfer Originals von anno dazumal”, Vol. 2, Düsseldorf 1979;
• Hans Seyppel: In matters of Muggles . "Das Tor", 1978, No. 1, pp. 15-16.
• Hans Müller-Schlösser: The beautiful old Düsseldorf . Collected essays by Hans Müller-Schlösser, Düsseldorf 1911;
• Hans Müller-Schlösser: The city on the Düssel . 2nd edition, Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1949, Das Ratinger Tor, pp. 58–59.
• Hans Müller-Schlösser: Düsseldorf originals . “Das Tor”, Volume 21, 1955, p. 329 ff.
• Gerhard and Kleeblatt: Düsseldorf legends from town and country . No. 98 “Der Muggel”, Goethe Buchhandlung, Düsseldorf 1982 (faithful new edition after the 1926 edition by Krumbiegel-Verlag in Düsseldorf);
• Klaus Kastenholz: Johann Muckel and Peter Muckel - The wicked and the bon vivant . In: “Famous & notorious Düsseldorfer - 30 portraits”, M. Krumbeck Verlag, Graphium Press, Wuppertal 1991.
• Kurt Muckel: Poacher Muggel - Origin and Stations of His Life , Krefeld 2010, in the Düsseldorf City Archives under the call number 833.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Düsseldorf , year 1848, p. 571, Johann Muckel's profile
2. ↑ Carl Maria Seyppel: The brewery "zum Schiffchen" in Düsseldorf , commemorative publication for the three-hundredth anniversary in April 1928