Maximilian Danhammer

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Maximilian Danhammer (* around 1640 in Reichersberg , Austria ; † May 8, 1708 in Neudek , Bohemia ) was a Bohemian sacristan who was sentenced to death by the sword by the Prague Court of Appeal for robbery and desecration of graves . He was the last sentenced to death and publicly executed in the Neudek reign .

history

Danhammer came from the Upper Austrian market Reichersberg and was the son of the master shoemaker Tobias Danhammer and his wife Barbara nee. Steigl. His father died in 1651. When he came to Neudek in the Ore Mountains is unknown. The trained shoemaker obtained citizenship there . In 1668 he married the daughter of the Neudek master maltster Georg Fleischer. After her death in 1679 he married Elisabeth Schuster a second time. Her grandfather Hans Schuster already held the office of church father at the parish church of Neudek .

From 1685 Danhammer appears in the registers as Kirchner or sacristan. At the beginning of the 18th century he robbed the epitaph of Counts Lorenz and Christoph Schlik in the church, probably at the entrance to the sacristy . The pastor Anton Ignaz Kirchner reports in his notes: In the Kirch epitaph of Schlick cum inscript, Tannhammer, Messner has robbed . He opened the grave and stole the grave goods . This happened in the knowledge of his wife Elisabeth, who was also charged.

Danhammer was eventually arrested, imprisoned at the Fronfeste and subjected to an embarrassing questioning . Because of the gravity of the offense, the then Czernin office administrator of the Neudek rule, Paul Amand Müller , asked the Prague Court of Appeal as the highest instance to rule on the case. Danhammer was not present in the proceedings. The judicial authority based its judgments on written testimony from the defendants and witnesses, which were held by a clerk and sent to the court.

The final judgment was issued by the President of the Court of Appeal Johann Graf von Trippenbach and their councilors at Prague Castle on April 24, 1708. It said that Maximilian Danhammer was to be executed with the sword for his serious crime. His wife Elisabeth was to be beaten with rods and to be sent to the city and the country for ever with a sworn oath . The execution Danhammers on May 8, 1708 the Neudeker Gallows Hill. It was the last public execution carried out in the Neudek reign.

Danhammer did not receive a Christian burial , he is not recorded in the local death register. The further fate of Danhammer's wife Elisabeth is unknown. His daughter Anna Margaretha died unmarried in Neudek in 1730. His youngest daughter Maria Elisabeth married the Wagner Andreas Kolditz in Neudek in 1720 .

abstract

The wording of the Prague Court of Appeal's document:

“To the mayor and council of the city of Neudeck

Concerning Maximilian Danhammer, who was arrested there.

In the name and from the way of the Roman Kaysser also to Hungarn ü. Böhaimb royally. The majesty of our most gracious lord have the decreed president and councils so over the appellations to the king. Prague Castle are sitting when Paul Amand Müller, Ambtsverwalter der Herrschaft Neudeck, passed a criminal question and a judicial and embarrassing statement about Maximilian Danhammer, who was arrested there in terms of Spoliatorum Sepulchorum, and asked for what should be legal.

After careful consideration of the same, they remained determined where further the things were more appropriate to conduct themselves: Thus, the obbemelter Maximilian Danhammer, because of his angry and silent crime, would be executed with the difficulty of life to death, his wife Elisabeth but with dust-blown dust prove and refer to forever against a sworn neck lapel with reading of the city and the country.

At the time of this letter sealed with the decreed Kayserl. and royal Secret insiegel. which is given whether the royal. Prague Castle the 24th month of April, after Christ Our Dear Lord Birth, in the seventeen hundred and eighth year. "

literature

  • Josef Pilz : History of the City of Neudek. 2nd ed., Ed .: Stadtgemeinde Neudek, 1923, pp. 108-109.
  • Jürgen Peter Sandner: Neudek, Elbogen, Karlsbad - beautiful cities in the Ore Mountains and Egerland. Chronicle and illustrated book. Augsburg, 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatbuch Landkreis Neudek: Published for the 10th home meeting on 16./17. September 1978 in Augsburg . Home group "Glück auf", Neudek district, 1978 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2019]).
  2. ^ Heinz K. Henisch: First dance in Karlsbad: Youth memories of Bohemia in the interwar period . Universitas Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-8004-1343-0 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  3. ↑ marriage register 01 (I) - 201/01 | Reichersberg | Linz, rk. Diocese (Upper Austria) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Death register 01 (I) - 301/01 | Reichersberg | Linz, rk. Diocese (Upper Austria) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Marie Vachenauer: Kafka's novel "The Proceß" as a reflection of historical events in the city of Prague . Frank & Timme GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7329-0057-2 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Č. P. 39 - Photo gallery - The rediscovered Ore Mountains. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Danhammer, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian sacristan
DATE OF BIRTH around 1645
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1708
Place of death Neudek