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Murder Memorial Cross of Johann Stemmeler (1758)

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Murder Memorial Cross of Johann Stemmeler (1758)

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Heike

May 18, 2021

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Johann Stemmeler, the son of the mayor of Brühl, was only 21 years old. 250 years later, a memorial stone near the banks of the Rhine in the south of …

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Heike

May 18, 2021

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The act caused a stir, not least because of the prominence of the victim. Jacob Stemmeler enjoyed a considerable reputation as the mayor and city miller of Brühl. The suspects, …

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August 7, 2022

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As the inscription on the cross says and has already been described in great detail by Heike above, this cross from 1758 on the "Weißer Leinpfad" is intended to commemorate a crime and commemorate the victim. Since the suspected perpetrators had already fled when the corpse was discovered, it cannot be a question of the type of "reconciliation cross", erecting one was often part of the punishment. Therefore, here is the classification in the type "murder memorial cross".

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