 Chapel of St.Nicholas in Ząbkowice Śląskie | |
| Duration | 20 September 1606 - 13 February 1607 [1] |
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| Location | Ząbkowice Śląskie southwest Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°35'33.9"N 16°48'46.7"E |
| Convicted | A total of 17 people were executed in this case, by mutilation and burning at the stake [2] |
The Frankenstein town gravediggers scandal is the case of the capture and sentencing in 1606 of gravediggers from the town of Frankenstein in Czech Silesia in the German Reich (now Ząbkowice Śląskie in Lower Silesia, Poland) who were accused of witchcraft, desecrating corpses and bringing plague. These events are related to the small chapel of St.Nicholas that still exists today, standing on the site of the old cemetery founded in 1552 at today's ul. 1 Maja in Ząbkowice Śląskie.
- ^ "Ząbkowice Śląskie – Frankenstein". Opowiecie.info (in Polish). 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
- ^ "Ząbkowice Śląskie – Frankenstein". Opowiecie.info (in Polish). 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2024-06-25.