Who a little history of the Osnabrück knows, will soon come across the so-called witch hunts, the waves in the 16th and 17 Century occurred.
is commonly assumed something like the Middle Ages. And that starts around 800 in Osnabrück By the middle of the 16th Century have to take almost 800 years and we end up not in the Middle Ages, but in modern times. Many factors led to the unknown extent in this action against suspicious persons, especially women.
On Tours by the Osnabrück old can learn the details, and a local historian, confirmed in a 2007 published book declared in Osnabrück complex circumstances of the time, change the application of law or, for example:
"Theoretically, the processes had heard before an ecclesiastical court - and the popular shows take just that to, but it is the secular courts, leading in the sense developed by the late medieval city councils supervision of the customs of these processes. " (Schubert 2007). Fits right in Osnabrück.
Ernst Schubert "robbers, hangmen, the sinners (2007):
In Chapter 7, the witch trials:
proves the research history of the witch trials, how deep the prejudice of the cruelty of the Middle Ages was itself rooted in science notwithstanding. source of all statements stable for long: The witch craze belongs to the Middle Ages and the early modern mass trials are only consequence. Critics of this view are increasing, while being about two decades, but they are seen not penetrated into the general consciousness.
In contrast, in the book of John is mentioned in box Buck storm, and here we meet a rather unusual but medieval prison. As events surrounding
meticulously tracked and women accused of witchcraft in Osnabrück were recorded, showing the letter of the councilors of 7 May 1583 to the cathedral chapter, said that women who had fled to the freedom of the Catholic John Neustadt, were to be delivered. A diplomatic Document. For the rest, here spoken of witches:
John's Church, Chapter House
In this area of Osnabrück was no witch-hunts.
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