Nr. on the small map: 24 (Miltenberg)
Having had at least 200 victims in total, evenly divided between the male and female sex, the district of Miltenberg (about 6500 residents) was one of the areas where the witch hunt was very severe. The questioning was conducted centrally at Miltenberg by Mainz-approved officials.
Between the city wall and the moat, between 1593 and 1597, roughly 15 to 20 single-cell prisons, dubbed witch huts, were constructed to house the captives. The Wammesser gate’s interrogation chamber was only a short distance away for them. The gate’s guards were also responsible for keeping an eye on the prisoners.
Jurists employed by the archbishopric of Mainz pronounced a death sentence without leaving their offices in Aschaffenburg. The bailiff delivered the judgement in a show trial on the Marktplatz or the Engelplatz. The executions were carried out on the knacker’s yard outside the eastern city walls, where the gas station ESSO is found today. As an “act of grace” the victims were first beheaded and then burned. The last execution took place on 6th February 1630.
