Katherina Hane

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Katherina Hane , also known as Katharina Hanen († 1444 in Hamburg ) was a German woman who was executed on charges of damaging magic.

Life

Katherina Hane was the first woman who is documented to have been executed in Hamburg on charges of "magic". This criminal offense was listed in the "Ordelbok" from 1270, which contained the oldest city law in Hamburg. The Ordelboks of 1301 and 1349 also contained this passage. The city of Hamburg paid for the execution. The bailiff received reimbursement from the city treasury for Katherina Hanes' stay in prison and for her cremation.

Katherina Hane was burned in 1444 because she was considered an "incantatrix" (sorceress). This point in time is strikingly early in the history of the persecution of sorceresses in northern Germany. She was probably locked up in the Frohnerei, the medieval city prison. It was located in the central Berg square, south of the portal of the Church of St. Peter . Since executions that did not involve pirates were carried out on the mountain at that time, the stake was probably also here.

Commemoration

In 2015, the show “Burn the Witch” was shown in the Hamburg Dungeon , in which Katherina Hane played the leading role.

On June 7, 2015, the Association of Women’s Garden in the presence of the Second Mayoress of Hamburg, Katharina Fegebank , inaugurated a memorial stone in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery for all those women who were victims of the early modern witch hunt in Hamburg.

In 2016 the political scientist Jan Vahlenkamp initiated an online petition with the aim of naming a street in Hamburg after Katherina Hane.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Matthias Blazek: Piracy, Murder and Atonement - A 700-year history of the death penalty in Hamburg 1292-1949 . ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8382-0457-4 , p. 34
  2. ↑ Experience our new show 'Burn the Witch' from 13-30. April! ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thedungeons.com
  3. ↑ Rita Bake: A new memorial stone in the women's garden . In: OHLSDORF - magazine for mourning culture
  4. ↑ Fegebank dedicates stone in memory of burned witches
  5. ↑ Memorial stone for Abelke Bleken
  6. ↑ Speech on the occasion of the inauguration of Hamburg's first memorial stone for the women accused of being witches and burned in Hamburg
  7. ↑ Hamburger demands: Street should be named after a witch Mopo, June 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hane, Katherina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanen, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German woman who was executed on charges of harmful magic
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1444
Place of death Hamburg