Tagebuch eines Henkers

Dieb gehängt

Die meisten von euch werden irgendwo leben wo es in einer Stadt noch einen Galgenhof gibt und in Dörfern die sich miteinander einen Richtplatz geteilt haben. Also das nächste mal wenn ihr am Galgenberg, Galgenfeld oder Galgenhof vorbei kommt erinnert euch daran dass diese Orte länger in Benutzung waren als sie es nicht mehr sind und für eine Wiederaufnahme braucht es nur einen Strick und einen Baukran.

Dazu empfehle ich euch das Tagebuch des Nürnberger Henkers Meister Franz Schmidt der zwischen 1573 und 1617 in Nürnberg und Umland 300 Kriminelle durch Strick und Schwert aus dem Genpool befördert hat.

Selbst die kurzen Beschreibungen der Hinrichtungen und des mittelalterlichen Lebens die dazu führen sind absoluter Grimdark Black Metal Shit.

February 11th 1584: Maria Kürschnerin of Nuremberg, alias Silly Mary, who had formerly been whipped out of the town with rods, and had her ears cropped; also Katherine Schwertzin of Weher, alias Country Kate, who had also formerly been whipped out of the town; both of them thieves and whores, who with thievish youths and fellows climbed and broke into citizens’ houses and stole a mighty quantity of things; both hanged at Nuremberg. It was an unheard of thing for a woman to be hanged in Nuremberg, and it had never yet happened.

Based. Finds auch total angebracht wenn eine Gesellschaft ihre Schlampen killt.

 So stellte sich der BILD-Zeichner die Szene vor

78. February 12th. Hennsa of Geyselwind, alias the fat lad; Hennsa Pallauf of Hernda; Killian Wurmb of Virnspach, alias Backendt; Hans Schober of Weher, alias Pulfferla; and Hennssla Klopffer of Reigelsdorff; five thieves who, with the previously executed ‘Silly Mary’ and ‘Country Kate,’ had burgled and stolen (they had also formerly been whipped out and put in the stocks ten times). They had to be clothed, for they were naked and bare; some of them knew no prayers and had never been in a church; the eldest were 22, 17, 16 and 15 years old, the youngest 13 years. All five hanged here in Nuremberg.

Ha! Nice. Da hat sich das lokale Zigeuner Problem deiner Stadt gerade erledigt. "Da können wir leider nix machen weil die sind noch minderjährig blablabla" Bullshit die landen am Galgen und a Ruh is. Ihr werdet feststellen dass ihr in keinem der Einträge das Wort "Intensivtäter" finden werdet und dagegen ziemlich viele mit den kurzen Worten beschrieben werden: Dieb gehängt.

Year 1577:
 Nicklauss Stüller, of Aydtsfeld, alias Schwartz Kraeker, a murderer. With his companions Phila and Görgla von Sunberg he committed eight murders. First he shot a horse-soldier; secondly he cut open a pregnant woman alive, in whom was a dead child; thirdly he again cut open a pregnant woman in whom was a female child; fourthly he once more cut open a pregnant woman in whom were two male children. Görgla von Sunberg said they had committed a great sin and that he would take the infants to a priest to be baptized, but Phila said he would himself be priest and baptize them, so he took them by the legs and dashed them to the ground. For these deeds he, Stüller, was drawn out on a sledge at Bamberg, his body torn thrice with red-hot tongs, and then he was executed on the wheel.

Wisst ihr was ziemlich cool wäre. Wenn diese Einträge in diesem Flashback Format von Witcher 2 cartoonisiert werden würden.

Vielleicht synchronisiert vom Darkest Dungeon Narrator.

1580: January 26th. Margaret Dörfflerin (50 years old) from Ebermannsstatt, Elizabeth Ernstin (22 years old) from Anspach, Agnes Lengin (22 years old) of Amberg, three child murderesses. The woman Dörfflerin, when she brought forth her child in the garden behind the Fort, left it lying alive in the snow so that it froze to death. Ernstin, when she brought forth her child alive in Master Beheimb’s house, herself crushed its little skull and locked the body in a trunk. But the woman Lengin, when she brought forth her child alive in the house of a smith, throttled it and buried it in a heap of refuse. All three beheaded with the sword as murderesses and their heads nailed above the great scaffold, no woman having been beheaded before this at Nuremberg. I and the two priests, namely Master Eucharius and Master Lienhardt Krieg, brought this about, as the bridges were already prepared, because they should all three have been drowned.

"Mein Bauch gehört mir" und dein Kopf gehört dem Henker.

August 10th 1581. George Schörpff of Ermb, near the Hohenstein, a lecher, guilty of beastliness with four cows, two calves, and a sheep. Beheaded for unnatural vice at Velln, and afterwards burnt together with a cow.

Old Testament Shit.

December 10th 1583. Hans Popp, a blacksmith at Nuremberg, 22 years old, who entered many shops and warehouses with false keys he had manufactured for the purpose, and stole things from them - the keys were thrown upon the gallows - beheaded with the sword at Nuremberg.

Thieves Guild Questline failed.

April 21st 1601: Bastian Grübl of Gumpnhoffen, alias der Schlack, a vagabond and thief, who stole much and besides confessed to twenty murders. Among these victims were five pregnant women, whom he had caused to live in debauchery with his companions, then cut them open and cut off the hands of the infants and made candles of their hands to be used in burglaries. He and his companions also stole children and offered them for sale to the Jews. Lastly also he denounced a farmer’s son, little Birger from Clausen, as being one of his associates who had helped him to steal and murder, so that the man was brought into this town and examined by torture in his presence. He did him wrong in this, for he, Birger, had no part in the murder, and the charge was false. Grübl thought that by doing him this injustice the murder would not be discovered, and that he would himself escape by this means; and he denounced the said Birger only out of enmity. Also Wolff Zerer of Neuendorff, alias der Zulp, a thief and beggar, with Anna his mistress, belonging to Neuenmarck, the daughter of a shepherd, who wandered about for seven years with the man Zulp begging and stealing, broke into five churches, one at Gossmanstein and another at Closter Schleisselau, and stole the pyxes and chalices out of them and much besides. For these things the men Schlack and Zulp were hanged here, but Anna beheaded. Nine years ago another paramour of hers, the ‘Black Town Beadle,’ was executed at Barreuth.

Diebeskerzen gemacht aus den Armen ungeborener Kinder. Genau so wie Leute damals an Christliche Erlösung geglaubt haben glaubten Kriminelle auch an das Gegenteil und verehrten den Teufel. Man kann sich das ungefähr vorstellen wenn mal als heutigen Vergleich mexikanische Drogenkartelle ansieht die ihren eigenen Heiligen Sensenmann haben und in alle Arten von Schlachtereien praktizieren. Einen ganzen Sack voller solcher Talismane hat man auch beim Räuber Peter Niers gefunden als er 1581 in Neumarkt, in der Nähe von Nürnberg, geschnappt und hingerichtet wurde.

January 19th 1587. Heintz Zetzmann of Heuchling, a thief who had given out that he was going to the Venusberg, and knew where the treasure was lying hidden, and how that the Devil had twice given him money on the stone bridge above Lauff. Nothing of which had happened, but he had stolen money and much besides. Flogged out of the town.

Auch interessant das Vorwort der Albrecht Keller Fassung über Kriminalwesen in der vormodernen Zeit.

Prisoners, many of them heavily ironed round the waist and at the feet, were confined for years, often together with their innocent children.

Und Donald Drumpf trennt Kinder von ihren Familien.

Dabei machen gesellige Gefängnisse alles interessanter.

He remained hanging for only three days in the place of execution, then someone cut through his neck, so that the head alone remained hanging and the body fell to the ground. The cause was this. When some lewd fellows lay imprisoned near him, he informed them that he had much gold sewn in his clothes, and that if they cut him down when he was hanged they would get good booty. Nothing was found, however.