The local history researcher Ernst Keller from Fürholzen hopes to be able to pull off his book presentation and cinema premiere on December 5th.
It's about historical thrillers.
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book and film differ only minimally in terms of title: while the film, which will be shown for the first time on a cinema screen on December 5 at 5 p.m. in the Neufahn Cineplex (further performances on December 9 at 6.15 p.m.) And on December 12th at 1pm), entitled “Freising - Forgotten stories from inglorious times”, is the title of the book “Freising - Forgotten Stories”, which is being published at the same time.
As Ernst Keller explains, "it is about a few exemplary selected crime stories that actually happened in Freising and the surrounding area and are described in detail in the book along with other dark stories".
The book consists of three major chapters
After Keller examined the Nazi era and military issues in 2008 with “At that time ... Our home in the time of the world wars” and in 2016 with “When the air war came to our home”, he decided to focus on something different in his third documentary Form of murder and manslaughter focused. "The period of our cases, from the fact to the execution of the judgment, extends from the 19th to the early years of the 20th century," says the local researcher.
But first to the book, which comprises the three large chapters “Crime stories from the royal judicial districts”, “Freising tavern stories” and “The old prison and its stories”. According to Ernst Keller in Freising, the first place of execution was from the more recent modern times near the old Münchner Strasse on Schleiferängerl. From 1709 the location of the gallows changed when the executioner's house was built on the hill between today's Prinz-Ludwig-Straße and Plantagenweg.
One of the few descriptions of an execution is kept in the manuscript department of the Bavarian State Library.
Then a dramatic incident occurred on December 20, 1748: When trying to hang an outlaw, the hangman's guilty indignation was said to have broken the rope.
When they wanted to strangle the condemned on the ground, Weihenstephan students stepped in, packed the poor fellow on a horse provided and took him to the nearby Weihenstephan Monastery - “where the persecutors were not allowed because Weihenstephan was abroad for the Freising henchmen “, Continues Keller.
1803 Abolition of executions
After the secularization of 1803 there were no more executions at all in the cathedral city. Death-worthy crimes such as murder, robbery or arson were tried before the Munich jury court from 1848 onwards and were also carried out in Munich.
From the criminal law reform of 1848 to mid-1862, i.e. in 14 years, the judges passed 327 death sentences. But 65 of them were only put into practice. "One of these death row inmates came from the royal district of Freising - more precisely from the hamlet of Pallhausen," the local researcher knows. Johann Krieger, 33 years old, known as the Ochsenhans, lived and worked there as a servant for a farmer. He was because of robbery III. Degree with disguise was sentenced to a chain sentence for an indefinite period - serving in the prison in Munich-Au. Keller: “It should be said that chain punishment was a type of imprisonment for particularly serious crimes that was widespread well into the 19th century. It consisted ofthat the condemned person was tied to the wall of his prison cell with an iron chain or that a heavy chain placed on his feet was weighted with an iron ball. "
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
After Johann Krieger, an aggressive lad, had often brutally beaten his two fellow inmates for trivial reasons - and despite his restrictions - one day Johann Herz, one of the cellmates, reported to the prison management.
The result was that one twisted the Ochsenhans.
Keller says: “The crooked closure was a tightened form of the penal system.
The delinquent's wrist was connected to the ankle on the opposite side of the body with a short chain so that he could no longer stand up. "
When Krieger survived this painful ordeal within a day, Herz was to pay for its whistling with its life.
While the other inmate Schmiere was standing, the Ochsenhans broke a foot out of the beech cell chair and killed his fellow inmate with it.
After a short trial, the verdict was certain: death by beheading with a guillotine.
Maypole friends reenact the fall
The film documentary contains examples of selected criminal cases from the book. One of the criminal cases is re-enacted by the theater group of the Maibaumfreunde Giggenhausen. It is about a pair of brothers feared throughout the kingdom: Georg and Xaver Geiger, 28 and 30 years old, break out of the prison in Kaisheim in the Donau-Ries on September 3, 1854. In night-time marches and in convict clothes, they flee to Massenhausen, 125 kilometers away, where Georg's lover, head dear Josepha Wimmer, works for a large farmer. This provides them with food and civilian clothes. Together they found a new band of robbers and mainly attack remote farms. The clever Josepha soon becomes the leader because she is the only one of the gang who can read and write.
The raids are celebrated in a forest hideout and the loot distributed.
In their euphoria after many successful attacks, they do not notice that the gendarmerie is on their heels.
A lumberjack had given the decisive tip.
In the midst of the celebration, the gendarmes storm the camp site.
A gang member tries to escape but is immediately gunned down.
All are arrested and taken to the Freising Fronfeste.
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