Case file · Witch trials
The Pappenheimer family
In 1600, a family of travelling latrine cleaners, the Pappenheimers, were tortured into confessing hundreds of crimes and witchcraft and executed in Munich with great cruelty.
1600 CE · 48.14, 11.58 · status: official
The account
Duke Maximilian I used the trial to show his strict rule. The case is one of the best documented of the German witch trials.