Waischenfelder Malefizbuch

The Malefizbuch Waischenfeld is a historical court book with entries on capital crimes and what was understood by them at the time, as well as their punishment.

A well-known historical document is the book kept for the office and city of Waischenfeld . It contains records of accidents, theft, adultery and murder, as well as records of interrogations, judgments and executions for the period from 1680 to 1751.

It is unusual that the bailiff also entered minutes that otherwise related to the Waischenfeld office, as well as family matters, as well as copies of documents. In this way, the lost Waischenfeld town census document was preserved in copy.

This historical book is of interest for local history and family research as well as for historical jurisprudence .

After an odyssey of over thirty years, the Waischenfelder Malefizbuch is now owned by the Historisches Verein Oberfranken and is available for use, including a newly created register, in the library of the University of Bayreuth under MS 219.

The Waischenfelder Malefizbuch has not been cited in any other work and has not yet been edited.

literature

• Theodor Hampe: The Nuremberg Maleficent Books as Sources of the Imperial City Moral History from the 14th to the 18th Century , Bamberg 1927, CC Buchners Verl.
• Konrad Schrott: "Um Galgen Rad und Schwert", evaluations from the maleficent books of the Bamberg monastery (Bamberg State Archives), Bamberg 1992