Hohenems execution site
The place of execution in Hohenems was the place where convicts from the Hohenems rule in Vorarlberg were executed .
location
The execution site , located in the “Sündergass” plot , outside the former town of Hohenems, is still undeveloped today ( 414 m above sea level ). A protected wayside shrine with no names or inscriptions reminds of the place. It is 20 meters from the Lindau – Bludenz railway line , which runs to the northwest, and around 600 meters northeast of Hohenems train station. A few meters to the west there is a speaking place name Galgenholz (at the cinema on Graf-Kaspar-Straße).
Right to exercise blood jurisdiction
The Lords of Hohenems exercised the right to kill people ( blood jurisdiction) in principle on the basis of the possession of the Hohenems dominion (originally not on the basis of a mortgage). On May 18, 1489, a new feudal letter from Emperor Friedrich to Hans von Ems was issued in Innsbruck , which also stated the scope of jurisdiction. Emperor Friedrich enfeoffed Hans von Ems as the eldest for himself, his brothers and cousins with the old Ems Castle, the forecourt in the Patch zu Ems with all the corresponding freedoms and rights, with the ban on blood in Hohenems and Dornbirn and others.
The fact that executed people were mostly buried in unconsecrated ground, often in the immediate vicinity of the place of execution, as has also been passed down from Hohenems, was also due to the supposedly strong magical effect that should be associated with their remains.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 9.3 ″ N , 9 ° 41 ′ 16.6 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ ObjektID: 6665 (see list of listed objects in Hohenems ).
- ↑ Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, Volume 120, Ostfildern 2002, p. 193.
- ↑ Arhivaal: Hohenems, Imperial County and State Archives Augsburg .
- ↑ Arhivaal: Hohenems, Imperial County .
- ↑ See for the burning of witches: Bendedikt Bilgeri: Vorarlberger Volksglaube in the written tradition. 1954, p. 1.