Execution sites in Wuppertal
In the urban area of today's city of Wuppertal there were several execution sites from the Middle Ages and modern times up to the 20th century. The following places of execution in Wuppertal are occupied:
Occupied places of execution
- Medieval and early modern gallows of Bergisch Office Beyenburg where Heerweg Cologne-Dortmund on the border official Bornefeld totaling Cluse . The parcel is called Im Galgenfeld in today's cadastre .
- In the Siebeneick residential area, there is evidence of a medieval / early modern execution site on a branch of the Alte Cölnische Strasse . The parcel is called Galgenbusch in today's cadastre .
- In the Galgenfeld zu Schöllersheide , also on the Alte Cölnische Strasse on the border to the Bergisch Amt Mettmann , executions of the Schöller rule have been carried out in modern times . The most famous delinquent was the robber captain Johannes ' Köphannes ' (= beheaded Johannes) Auerbäumer in 1805 .
- In modern times, the Elberfeld execution site was located on Brausenwerth .
- Executions with guillotine were carried out in Elberfeld prison in Bendahl until 1912 . The neighboring district court , which pronounced the death sentences , was on a Wupperinsel . A macabre interpretation of the saying “… go over the Wupper ” (= to die) results from this geographical constellation in which the convicts were brought across the Wupper to the place of execution in the prison.
- There was a gallows on the Elberfelder Hardtberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. He stood on a place surrounded by a wall on the southern mountain slope. This place was called "the court". The Hardtberg used to be called " Galgenberg " or " Galgenköppken ". Later, instead of a gallows, a gallows tree was used. A four-hundred-year-old oak on the northern edge of the rock face of the Waldbühne Hardt , which existed until the end of the 20th century, has been handed down as a gallows tree.
Unoccupied places of execution
In legends, places of execution are also mentioned without historical evidence:
- Gallows on the Stübchensberg on the former city limits between Elberfeld and Barmen .
literature
- Notes on the history of the executions in Wuppertal . Romerike Berge 2, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Helbeck , "Beyenburg - History of a place on the Bergisch-Märkische border and its surrounding area" , Volume I (The Middle Ages: Basics and Ascent) , ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5
- ↑ Time track search: Schöller
- ^ Antonia Dinnebier : Landscape Garden Hardt
- ↑ Otto Schell : Bergische Sagen , Baedeker, 1897