Anna Schnidenwind (
née
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''Trutt''; 1688 in
Wyhl
Wyhl, officially Wyhl am Kaiserstuhl (; ), is a municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
It is known in the 1970s for its role in the anti-nuclear movement. Wyhl was first mentioned in 1971 as a ...
– 24 April 1751 in
Endingen am Kaiserstuhl
Endingen (Low Alemannic: ''Ändinge am Kaiserstuehl'') is a small German town located in southwest Germany, at the border with France. It lies at the northern border of a former volcano area called Kaiserstuhl. The population of Endingen is a ...
)
was one of the last people in Germany and in Europe confirmed to have been executed in public for
witchcraft
Witchcraft is the use of Magic (supernatural), magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meanin ...
.
It was for the devastating fire of Wyhl on 7 March 1751 which became the trigger of the witch trial. The fire destroyed most of the village. The 63-year-old peasant was accused of having caused arson through a Devil's pact.
Schnidenwind was judged guilty and sentenced to death. She was burned on 24 April 1751 in Endingen in
Breisgau
The Breisgau () is an area in southwest Germany extending along the Rhine River and enveloping portions of the Black Forest. Part of the state of Baden-Württemberg, it centers on the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. The district of Breisgau-Hoch ...
, after strangulation. The region was in those times part of
Anterior Austria. It is quite sure, that the government in
Vienna
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did not know about the case.
See also
*
Anna Göldi
*
Barbara Zdunk
Barbara Zdunk (1769 – 21 August 1811) was an ethnically Polish alleged arsonist accused of witchcraft. Zdunk lived in the town of Rößel, in what was then East Prussia, and is now Reszel in Poland. She is considered by many to have been the la ...
*
Anna Maria Schwegelin
References
Sources
* Anna Schnidenwind geborene Trutt (brochure), Endicott, (2001)
Der Endinger Hexenprozess gegen Anna Trutt von 1751
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1688 births
1751 deaths
Executed German women
German people executed for witchcraft
18th-century German people
People executed in the Holy Roman Empire by burning
People from Emmendingen (district)
Executed people from Baden-Württemberg
18th-century executions in the Holy Roman Empire
18th-century German criminals