Nikol cunning, also Nicol or nickel cunning (* approx. 1656 in forest castle; "† executed to 23. May 1699 in Celle), was a robber captain in outgoing 17. Century, which committed with its gang in and outside of of Saxonia above all cathedral and church robbery as well as Mordbrennerei.

Life

Nikol cunning lived occasionally in Beutha in the ore mountains and operated for camouflage than tenants the hotel "the Green fir "in the neighboring place area (today OT von Stollberg). In the input area of the hotel one finds today still another Hinweistafel.

When one wanted to arrest it in the Johannisnacht 1696 in Beutha, he shot, in order to save itself from a Exekution, from two land jurors taken part in the arrest from hard stone (Saxonia) and escaped. Cunning was over years on the escape and made as a captain of its gang of robbers large regions, predominantly Northern Germany, uncertain. Cunning gave itself the name baron von Mosel and pulled with a small yard state around. On 9 November 1697 it was outlawed. 1699 were imprisoned taken cunning in Greiz and executed after a process in yard together with its accomplices of its gang of robbers in Celle. To 23. May 1699 was only Nikol cunning, cut back then and finally burned.

Gedenkstein

In the year 1700 one made its house in Beutha to the ground equal and established on its place in the village route Nr.58b a To the memory a stone cross with inscriptions was established to everyone of the two 1696 shot Hartensteiner citizens.

The meter-large ski-far and both sand-stone Gedenksteine of the two Hartensteiner citizens can be visited today at the inside of the Friedhofsmauer in Beutha. The two stone intending crosses on the left and on the right the stone contain the life data of the two murdered Hartensteiner. All six - the Schieferstein consists of three surfaces - stones weathered and the inscriptions hardly still readably. The wording of the text was received however by minister Neubert to Beutha (of Saxonia church gallery, section Beutha).

The large stone in the center, the carries the inscription:

Front side: "At this place have used the world-well-known thief, church robber and murderer Nicol cunning, which seized in the Johannisnacht 1696 by a consequence sent after him the own Christoph Kneufflern and still another citizen, Gottfried Eckarden, deplorably shot and whereupon the escape. On the benevolent rule instruction was down-torn the List house stood here and provided against the volatile murderer with the eight. "

Back "after now Nicol cunning 5 November because of the two Mordtaten committed here as hard stone into the eight explained, is he because of other misdeeds to Greiz come in and from there to yard here next however whether him already daselbst a sharp death sentence spoken, nevertheless as a of the precious board brought to Lueneburg only after Celle, allwo it because of well-known many important hiving, 9 church robbing and this sake Mordtaten the 23. May 1699 its wages received, since it zerschmettert from downside on with 8 impacts, it still living, the head with the hatchet knocked off, selbigen on the stake nailed, the dead body however on a heap of failure to powder burn. "

Stone cross, right:

On the side: "Christoph Kneuffler, land and to hard stone, is all here in the Johannisnacht 1696 of Nicol lists shot with a ball split into the Gevierte and next Sunday after to hard stone honestly buried. "

On the other side: "This honest man was 50 year and 27 weeks old, one widow and four children, nehmlich 3 sons ind 1 daughter, left. "

Stone cross left:

On the side: "Gottfried Eckhardt, citizen and yard butcher to hard stone is all here in the Johannisnacht 1696 of Nicol lists shot with two metallic balls and next Sunday after to hard stone honestly buried. "

On the other side: "This man was 34 year and 34 weeks old, a poor widow and 3 small unerzogene children, 2 sons and 1 daughter, left. "

Belletrisitk

Except older documentary representations of the crimes of this robber there was also a historical-romantic under the title: Life and gau first realms nickel Lists and its gang. Penig, 1802. Lists life was often described and specified as on the doll stage. As literature historians found out, Friedrich Schiller of parts from the life Lists and from the trial process in its work has "the robbers" related.

Literature

• Hans's von Nickel cunning, the chronicle of a robber, Leipzig: Reclam, 1925
• Rudolf scratch, nickel cunning - church robbers and bandit: Of its robbery acts and of its capture in the Greizer country anno 1698, Greizer homeland calendar: 1958, Ter Z 10 Greiz, 1958, P. 65
• Siegfried Weinhold, black nickel: the robber fate of the Nicol cunning, Chemnitz: Chemnitzer publishing house, 1994, Belletristik, ISBN 3-928678-12-4
• Annette Kura, of Saxonia murder burner, robber, Pa and game contactors in the ore mountains and in the Oberlausitz, 1. Aufl., Berlin: Altis publishing house, 1993, ISBN 3-910195-08-3
• Franc Reinhold, before 300 years was taken nickel cunning imprisoned, from the history of the "new ones gives", homeland messenger 1998. to 44. Class. 1998. Number 6. P. 10
• Joachim training man, gangs of robbers between resin and Weser - Braunschweig, Hanover, Hildesheim"Â…: a historical review

Related links

• The large cathedral robbery of Hamburg, Hamburg evening paper

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