Executioner's House (Salzburg)

The executioner's house (today Neukommgasse 26) in Salzburg - Gneiss (Freimann's house, occasionally also executioner's house ) is located on the former path of the dead. This path of the dead got its name because of those who were executed there and because of the former poor sinners cemetery on this road. The Salzburg executioners lived here from the early 17th to the early 19th century , right next to the former place of execution .

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The last visible evidence of that place of execution in Salzburg, which existed from 1599 to 1817 and was important beyond the city and state of Salzburg, is the old executioner's house in Salzburg-Gneis. Today it is owned by the Martin farmer. The house is one of the city's monuments that are absolutely worth preserving. With a probability bordering on certainty, in 1599 at the special request of Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, not only the immediate execution site of the city moved to Gneiss, but also the executioner's house. In the years 1690 and 1692 this house was already old and in need of renovation. The Hieronymus cadastre calls the building in 1779 “a house on the Hochfürstl. Freymanngut ". At that time it was worth 200 guilders. The last executioner, Franz Joseph Wohlmuth, tried successfully to take the building from the property of the prince-archbishop's court chamber. In the 19th century, the executioner's house became a farm that was inhabited until around the year 2000.

Buildings in the vicinity

In the time of the prince-archbishop, the landscape around the high court and the executioner's house remained undeveloped, as executioners were considered a dishonest profession and the daily sight of the place of execution with the decaying dead on display there was not attractive in several respects. Only on the other side of the Almkanal were there small goods with the Pechbrennerhäusel and the Almbrenner, which through hedges, through the polluted willows of the Almkanal, through the Freimannwäldchen and through orchards, but also avoided a direct view of the court. The small estates on Thumegger Strasse were also shielded by forest and were also on the north side of Thumegger Strasse. The south-facing Kleinpechbrockergut on Berchtesgadner Strasse was already about 400 m away and is also to the east of Berchtesgadner Strasse; the tree hedge on the western edge of the road covered the place of execution as did the orchard of the small farm.

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Court chamber documents Glanegg in the Salzburg State Archives
http://www.salzburg.com/wiki/index.php/Scharfrichterhaus

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