Bamberg Torture
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- Created on: 01-06-21 11:51
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- Bamberg Torture
- Calendar = a list of events
- Diet = a meeting of the states that made up the HRE
- Methods of Torture
- Thumbscrews
- Leg vices
- Scourging
- The stocks, furnished with iron spikes
- The Strappardo
- Burning feathers under the arms and groin
- The prayer stool, a kneeling board with sharp wooden pegs
- forcible feeding on herring cooked in salt and denial of water
- Scalding water baths with added lime
- The Listen Chamber, a small room with pyramids covering the floor
- On the way to being burned, additional punishment could be imposed
- Cutting off the right hand
- Tearing the breasts of women with red-hot pincers
- the more brutal the torture
- More confessions and names given
- The larger the hunts
- More confessions and names given
- Johannes Junius
- wrote a letter to his daughter whilst in prison
- said there is no way out of a witch prison
- they will torture you and torture you until you confess
- The authorities did not care for the position of the accusedor even if the confession was true
- The nature of the hunts seemed to be drifting away from hunting witches and towards hunting anyone
- said there is no way out of a witch prison
- wrote a letter to his daughter whilst in prison
- Imperial Opposition
- The imperial court tried to restrain von Dornheim's zeal
- Ordered the release of George Haan on the grounds that 'the arrest was a violation of the law of the Empire not to be torelated'
- von Dornheim ignored the Emperor
- Ordered the release of George Haan on the grounds that 'the arrest was a violation of the law of the Empire not to be torelated'
- Dorothea Flock
- The Emperor was forced to intercede in the case of Dorothea Flock
- von Dornheim paid little heed to the emperor and had Dorothea executed before official messages from the emperor and the pope arrived
- This enraged the imperial officials
- The emperor wanted to now shut the hunts down completely
- von Dornheim sent representatives to a diet of the emperor where the situation was due to be discussed
- Ferdinand ordered that in futuretrials the basis for accusations be made in public, legal counsel be allowed to the defendants and confiscation of property cease
- Ferdinand also appointed an official as head of Bamberg witch commission
- von Dornheim sent representatives to a diet of the emperor where the situation was due to be discussed
- The emperor wanted to now shut the hunts down completely
- This enraged the imperial officials
- von Dornheim paid little heed to the emperor and had Dorothea executed before official messages from the emperor and the pope arrived
- Accused of witchcraft
- Her husband was a Bamberg official and was able to escape to the imperial city of Nuremberg where he appealed to both the emperor and the Pope
- The Emperor was forced to intercede in the case of Dorothea Flock
- When the situation in Bamberg worsened, the Emperor Ferdinand II was under increased pressure to do something
- The imperial court tried to restrain von Dornheim's zeal
- End of The Bamberg Torture
- The opposition of Emperor Ferdinand II
- The death of Bishop Forner
- The threats of Swedish King Gustav
- In February 1632, Swedish and Saxon troops occupied Bamberg, forcing Dornheim to flee
- von Dornheim died in exile the next year and his cousin, the bishop of Wurzburg, died in 1631
- Two of the fiercest promoters of persecution were gone
- von Dornheim died in exile the next year and his cousin, the bishop of Wurzburg, died in 1631
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