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struggle4progress

(118,331 posts) Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:21 PM Jul 2012

Stadt Köln rehabilitiert 38 "Hexen"

Die Welt 30.06.12

Eine Raupenplage soll die Kölner Patrizierin Katharina Henot gezaubert, Zank gesät und Unzucht getrieben haben. Mit dem Teufel soll sie im Bunde gestanden haben. Davon war das Kölner Gericht überzeugt, das die Postmeisterin 1627 nach Folter zum Tode verurteilte.

385 Jahre später, am 28. Juni 2012, wurde Katharina Henot gemeinsam mit 37 anderen Frauen und Männern, die in der rheinischen Metropole dem Hexenwahn zum Opfer fielen, im Kölner Stadtrat rehabilitiert ... Das war kein juristischer Akt, denn das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation ist ohne Rechtsnachfolger untergegangen ... Historiker schätzen die Zahl der Frauen und Männer, die in Deutschland hingerichtet wurden, weil sie angeblich mit dem Teufel im Bunde standen, auf 25.000.

Der pensionierte Pfarrer Hartmut Hegeler aus Unna, der den Bürgerantrag auf Rehabilitierung sämtlicher in Köln als Hexen hingerichteter Menschen gestellt hat, war nach der Abstimmung am Donnerstag "sehr erleichtert". Jetzt will er, dass im Kölner Dom eine Messe als Geste der Wiedergutmachung durch das Erzbistum gefeiert wird ...

http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/vermischtes/article107469617/Stadt-Koeln-rehabilitiert-38-Hexen.html

In 1627, the Cologne court was convinced Catherine Henot, in league with the devil, had conjured a caterpillar plague, sowed strife, and incited lust. So the postmistress was sentenced to death by torture.

385 years later, on 28 June 2012, the Cologne city council rehabilitated Catherine Henot together with 37 other women and men killed for witchcraft in Rhine city ... Since the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation lacks a legal successor, the rehabilitation has no legal consequences ... Historians estimate the number of women and men executed in Germany, for allegedly being in league with the devil, at 25,000.

Retired minister Hartmut Hegeler from Unna, who lodged the application to rehabilitate the witches executed in Cologne, was "very relieved" after the vote on Thursday. Now he wants to be a Mass celebrated in the cathedral as a gesture of reparation by the archdiocese ...

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Stadt Köln rehabilitiert 38 "Hexen" (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2012 OP

Ein Bißchen spät, nicht wahr? Jackpine Radical Jul 2012 #1

Oh, shizzles! I forgot the "Better late than never" option! struggle4progress Jul 2012 #2

I am curious about the source for the translation.... xocet Jul 2012 #3

What you suggest makes better sense, so I'll defer to your superior knowledge of German struggle4progress Jul 2012 #4

Thanks for posting that interesting article.... xocet Jul 2012 #5

hexenwahn zum Opfer fielen dimbear Jul 2012 #6

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Ein Bißchen spät, nicht wahr?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:17 PM

Jul 2012

struggle4progress

(118,331 posts)

2. Oh, shizzles! I forgot the "Better late than never" option!

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:35 PM

Jul 2012

xocet

(3,871 posts)

3. I am curious about the source for the translation....

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:16 AM

Jul 2012

Davon war das Kölner Gericht überzeugt, das die Postmeisterin 1627 nach Folter zum Tode verurteilte.

Shouldn't that sentence be translated more in line with the following rough translation?

The Cologne court which sentenced in 1627 the postmistress to death after (having subjected her to) torture was convinced thereof.

(Thereof refers back to the previous sentence that indicates the connection to the devil.)

struggle4progress

(118,331 posts)

4. What you suggest makes better sense, so I'll defer to your superior knowledge of German

Reply to xocet (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 01:02 PM

Jul 2012

xocet

(3,871 posts)

5. Thanks for posting that interesting article....

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 01:51 PM

Jul 2012

I don't know if you have ever been to Cologne, but, if not, the cathedral there is very impressive (150 m spires (approx.)) - http://www.koelner-dom.de - and is, at most, two blocks from the main train station.

Also, there is a nice art museum, Museum Ludwig, not too far (at most a couple of blocks) from the cathedral: http://www.museenkoeln.de/museum-ludwig/default.asp?lang=2 .

dimbear

(6,271 posts)

6. hexenwahn zum Opfer fielen

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:38 PM

Jul 2012

"fell sacrificed to the witch mania" sounds closer to me.

One small point: just in case these folk actually did follow the old religion, wouldn't a maypole dance or a bonfire be a better reparation than a mass?

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