Bamberg

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

FARMING/ARGICULTURE

• "The Little Ice Age" (1550-1660)
• "The Year Without a Summer" (1528)
• Frost destoryed wine crop (1529)

FINANCE

• Imported silver descreased by 1610
• Gold content in coins decreased by 77% by 1626

KEY INDIVIDUALS

Hans Langhans = accused of destroying wine crop

Eissmennin = admitted to coin clipping & association with the devil

THE THIRTY YEARS WAR

• Debts form the war accumulated to over 800,000 flourins
• Food, supplies & crops were plundered
• 40% of Bamberg of population never returned

VON DORNHEIM & FORNER

VON DORNHEIM

• Prince Bisiop (1623)
• Responsible for 600 executions of witches
• Built the Draudenhaus in 1627

FORNER

• Vicar General
• Helped design Draudenhaus 1627
• Responisble for 600 executions of witched
• Acted as as an interrogator and vice command

LACK OF STRONG CENTERAL GOVERNMENT

THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

• Patchwork of political entities
• Under the regime of Emperor, however no general authority

KEY DATES/STATEMENTS

• Carolina Code (1532)
• Cuius regio, eius reglio (1549)

ARRIVAL OF THE SWEDISH ARMY 

THIRTY YEARS WAR

• Army was led by Adolphus
• Decreased the population in Bamberg by 40%
• Farms were devastated & destroyed
• Caused economic depravation in Bamberg

INTERVATION OF THE EMPORER

FERDINAND II

• 1631 Ferdinand stated he'd punish those responsible for the Ttrials
• 1631 Dr Winter a new Bamberg Witch Commissoner appointed
• 1631 NO more executions

INCREASED SCEPTICISM 

EVIDENCE & EXAMPLES

• Dorothea Flock 1630
• 1627 Dornheim announces he will flog anyone who gives false testimonies

DEATH & FEELING OF VON DORNHEIM & FORNER

VON DORNHEIM

• Died 1633
• Fled on the arrival of the Swedish Army

FORNER

• Died 1630

No exectutions took place after 1631