Sensational find by the former district home nurse Helmut Schmidbauer: Apparently he has tracked down the original Schongau executioner's sword again.
It was stolen from the city museum exactly 50 years ago.
Presumably it once belonged to the Schongau executioner.
The valuable sword, which could have come from the 16th or 17th century, was stolen exactly 50 years ago from what was then the city museum.
Former district home attendant Helmut Schmindbauer is certain that it was the hangman's sword that Jakob Kuisl and his descendants wielded to execute people, including cutting off the heads of the supposed Schongau witches.
At that time, other valuable swords, rapiers and thrusting weapons, so-called halberds, disappeared from the showcases in today's Schongau city library at the Münztor.
The valuable sword is currently with the State Criminal Police Office
Thanks to his involvement, it was possible to track down the stolen property, Schmidbauer reported at the annual general meeting of the Schongau Historical Association - city and country.
“It is currently in the care of the State Criminal Police Office.
But we can hope that the hangman's sword and the other stolen exhibits will sooner or later return to their ancestral location. ”Schmidbauer cannot and is not allowed to go into detail about how this sensational find came about, because the Munich public prosecutor's office has it Investigation started.
The investigation has not yet been completed and the pending proceedings should not be endangered.
Stolen 50 years ago - the museum's alarm system was off
The public prosecutor's office had also investigated 50 years ago, at that time the colleagues from Kempten, but the investigation soon stopped and the theft could not be resolved.
Apparently, the perpetrators did not have it too difficult on the night of July 10th to 11th, 1971, because the theft from the rooms on Blumenstrasse was also possible because the alarm system had been switched off.
“There were always false alarms from passing trucks,” recalls the former district caretaker.
When the house was searched, Kripo found all the valuable stolen property
He recently got a tip where the sword could be, he says.
It clearly got into private hands through the art trade.
He didn't expect that the criminal police, who were involved, would also find all the other stolen weapons during a house search.
"I would be incredibly happy if the sword could return to Schongau after half a century."
(With Sabine Näher)
The hangman's sword probably belonged to the ancestors of successful author Oliver Pötzsch, who not only dealt with the story of the hangman's daughter von Schongau in his books, but also performed it as an open-air theater.
