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A Beheaded Pirate Saves Eleven Lives ...!
On October 20, 1401, the imprisoned "Vitalienbrüder" (Blockade Breakers Brotherhood) or "Likedeeler", "Equal divider "), Klaus (or Claas) Störtebeker and his loyal followers are executed on the "Grasbrook" execution field in front of the gates of the city of Hamburg ... :
Previously, Störtebeker ...
... and its privateers made the Baltic and North Sea unsafe for a long time...:
They even raided and looted fortified coastal towns like the city of Wismar in 1380...:
The mayor of Wismar had saved the life of his town by entering into a competition with the extremely hard-drinking Störtebeker (the name means "Empty the mug") and actually managed to empty a four-liter beer mug in one go!
When it became "too hot" for them due to the increasing pressure of persecution, the Vitalienbrüder moved to the North Sea, where they found safety and hiding places on the coast with the still unconquered Frisians, and from there they undertook their pirate attacks.
They gave themselves the motto: "God's friend and the world's enemy!"
Störtebeker and his people were held in high regard by the common people because they took away from the rich and gave freely to the poor!
With their light ships, the Vitalienbrüder even lead up the Weser to Verden on the Aller. There they gave the population tons of stolen herring and bread because they heard that the city was hungry.
A monument in the middle of Verden still reminds of this donation of herring ...
Foto
... and the donation of herring (530 loaves and 1600 herring each) is symbolically repeated every year in March - only the donor is not Klaus Störtebeker, but the Mayor of Bremen ...:
Finally the hustle and bustle of the buccaneers became too much for the Hamburg pepper sacks, as the local merchants were called, and they set up a veritable navy!
On April 22nd, 1401, Klaus Störtebeker was arrested by the Hamburg fleet in front of Heligoland, after a bitter struggle ...
... boarded, captured ...
... ... and aborard the Hamburg flagship "Bunte Kuh" ("Colorful Cow" ) ...
...brought to Hamburg...:
A traitor is said to have poured liquid lead into the rudder of Störbebeker's ship, rendering it impossible to maneuver - alternatively, this is explained by the destruction of the main mast by projectiles from the "colorful cow".
Störtebecker and 47 surviving Vitalienbrüder became - what else? - sentenced to death.
The legend wants to know that, after the death sentence for life and freedom, Störtebeker offered the Hamburg Senate a gold chain that should extend around the entire city - which the Senate rejected.
When the pirates' legendary gold treasure could not be found, Störtebeker's ship "Seetiger"...
... ("Seatiger"), which was brought to Hamburg, was sold to a ship's carpenter.
As he started the saw to dismantle the ship, he encountered something hard: the treasure was hidden in the masts, one filled with gold, the other with silver and the third with copper
Immediately before his execution - so the legend goes - Störtebeker had one last request granted:
All those of his men should be free, whom he could walk past with his head already severed before he finally collapsed...:
The mayor present said yes. Then Störtebeker's head was cut off with the sword.
The legend goes on to say that the headless Störtebeker actually started running and had already passed the eleventh man when the executioner Meister Rosenfeld tripped him so that Störtebeker fell...:
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Eleven men got so free. The Hamburg city chronicle reports on the release of these eleven condemned to death - but unfortunately remains silent about the reasons!
And to this day there is an argument about whether something like this could have been possible ...
At least it has been proven that, for example, freshly decapitated chickens can still walk afterwards - I'll save you the filming and only show this one small photo ...:
The severed heads of the other vitality brothers were nailed to posts on the Grasbrook with long iron nails and left standing as a deterrent!
When the construction of the warehouse district began in Hamburg in 1878 on Grasbrook (where the "Miniatur Wunderland" model railway is located today, among other things), several skulls were found with nails spiked through ...:
In the 1970s, one of the skulls believed to be Klaus Störtebeker's head was reconstructed using a forensic procedure developed by the Soviet professor Gerasimov ...:
This is what Klaus Störtebecker could actually have looked like!
At the place where the skull was found, there is now a memorial for Klaus Störtebeker ...:
And finally something personal:
During his lifetime, my grandfather carried out intensive genealogical research, for which he also found the opportunity and support from the so-called "Reichssippenhauptamt" during the "thousand years", for he was wearing a black uniform with very thick shoulder pieces:
And there they want to find out that my family on my mother's side is descended from a certain Godecke (or Gödecke) Michels, who was executed together with Störtebecker and, in said chronicles and other reports (see heading of the next photo!), As one of the foremen (sub-commanders) mentioned...:
This name can also be found on the monument depicted above.
If that's true? No idea! Nazis are not to be trusted!
However, we have haved pirate symbols in pur family coatr of armssince at least 200 years:
A skull with crossed bones (like on the "Jolly Roger", the famous pirate flag) and above it an hourglass ...:
And I like that - no matter what it refers to ...!
On October 20, 1401, the imprisoned "Vitalienbrüder" (Blockade Breakers Brotherhood) or "Likedeeler", "Equal divider "), Klaus (or Claas) Störtebeker and his loyal followers are executed on the "Grasbrook" execution field in front of the gates of the city of Hamburg ... :
Previously, Störtebeker ...
... and its privateers made the Baltic and North Sea unsafe for a long time...:
They even raided and looted fortified coastal towns like the city of Wismar in 1380...:
The mayor of Wismar had saved the life of his town by entering into a competition with the extremely hard-drinking Störtebeker (the name means "Empty the mug") and actually managed to empty a four-liter beer mug in one go!
When it became "too hot" for them due to the increasing pressure of persecution, the Vitalienbrüder moved to the North Sea, where they found safety and hiding places on the coast with the still unconquered Frisians, and from there they undertook their pirate attacks.
They gave themselves the motto: "God's friend and the world's enemy!"
Störtebeker and his people were held in high regard by the common people because they took away from the rich and gave freely to the poor!
With their light ships, the Vitalienbrüder even lead up the Weser to Verden on the Aller. There they gave the population tons of stolen herring and bread because they heard that the city was hungry.
A monument in the middle of Verden still reminds of this donation of herring ...
Foto... and the donation of herring (530 loaves and 1600 herring each) is symbolically repeated every year in March - only the donor is not Klaus Störtebeker, but the Mayor of Bremen ...:
Finally the hustle and bustle of the buccaneers became too much for the Hamburg pepper sacks, as the local merchants were called, and they set up a veritable navy!
On April 22nd, 1401, Klaus Störtebeker was arrested by the Hamburg fleet in front of Heligoland, after a bitter struggle ...
... boarded, captured ...
... ... and aborard the Hamburg flagship "Bunte Kuh" ("Colorful Cow" ) ...
...brought to Hamburg...:
A traitor is said to have poured liquid lead into the rudder of Störbebeker's ship, rendering it impossible to maneuver - alternatively, this is explained by the destruction of the main mast by projectiles from the "colorful cow".
Störtebecker and 47 surviving Vitalienbrüder became - what else? - sentenced to death.
The legend wants to know that, after the death sentence for life and freedom, Störtebeker offered the Hamburg Senate a gold chain that should extend around the entire city - which the Senate rejected.
When the pirates' legendary gold treasure could not be found, Störtebeker's ship "Seetiger"...
... ("Seatiger"), which was brought to Hamburg, was sold to a ship's carpenter.
As he started the saw to dismantle the ship, he encountered something hard: the treasure was hidden in the masts, one filled with gold, the other with silver and the third with copper
Immediately before his execution - so the legend goes - Störtebeker had one last request granted:
All those of his men should be free, whom he could walk past with his head already severed before he finally collapsed...:
The mayor present said yes. Then Störtebeker's head was cut off with the sword.
The legend goes on to say that the headless Störtebeker actually started running and had already passed the eleventh man when the executioner Meister Rosenfeld tripped him so that Störtebeker fell...:
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[/URL]Eleven men got so free. The Hamburg city chronicle reports on the release of these eleven condemned to death - but unfortunately remains silent about the reasons!
And to this day there is an argument about whether something like this could have been possible ...
At least it has been proven that, for example, freshly decapitated chickens can still walk afterwards - I'll save you the filming and only show this one small photo ...:
The severed heads of the other vitality brothers were nailed to posts on the Grasbrook with long iron nails and left standing as a deterrent!
When the construction of the warehouse district began in Hamburg in 1878 on Grasbrook (where the "Miniatur Wunderland" model railway is located today, among other things), several skulls were found with nails spiked through ...:
In the 1970s, one of the skulls believed to be Klaus Störtebeker's head was reconstructed using a forensic procedure developed by the Soviet professor Gerasimov ...:
This is what Klaus Störtebecker could actually have looked like!
At the place where the skull was found, there is now a memorial for Klaus Störtebeker ...:
And finally something personal:
During his lifetime, my grandfather carried out intensive genealogical research, for which he also found the opportunity and support from the so-called "Reichssippenhauptamt" during the "thousand years", for he was wearing a black uniform with very thick shoulder pieces:
And there they want to find out that my family on my mother's side is descended from a certain Godecke (or Gödecke) Michels, who was executed together with Störtebecker and, in said chronicles and other reports (see heading of the next photo!), As one of the foremen (sub-commanders) mentioned...:
This name can also be found on the monument depicted above.
If that's true? No idea! Nazis are not to be trusted!
However, we have haved pirate symbols in pur family coatr of armssince at least 200 years:
A skull with crossed bones (like on the "Jolly Roger", the famous pirate flag) and above it an hourglass ...:
And I like that - no matter what it refers to ...!
