DO NOW: Bamberg RECAP 

1. Correct any incorrect statements (there are two) 3. What do you remember about this
• There was strong central authority in the Holy Roman Empire man?
• The Carolina law code of 1532 stated that justice should remain a local
matter
• Religious upheaval led to people fearing the devil’s work was all around
them
• The Jesuit order was created to help promote the Reformation and were
invited to settle in Bamberg
• There was already a precedent for witch hunting in Bamberg by the 1620s
• There had been several attempts to convert Protestant parishes to
Catholicism before the 1620s (e.g. through fines and restricting wood)
but in 1619 there some parishioners in Marktzeuln were refusing to
convert
2. Why was a witch hunt in Bamberg likely by the 1620s?
DO NOW: Bamberg RECAP & H.W
1. Correct any incorrect statements (there are two) 3. What do you remember about this
• There was strong central authority in the Holy Roman Empire man?
• The Carolina law code of 1532 stated that justice should remain a local
matter
• Religious upheaval led to people fearing the devil’s work was all around
them
• The Jesuit order was created to help promote the Reformation and were
invited to settle in Bamberg
• There was already a precedent for witch hunting in Bamberg by the 1620s
• There had been several attempts to convert Protestant parishes to
Catholicism before the 1620s (e.g. through fines and restricting wood)
but in 1619 there some parishioners in Marktzeuln were refusing to
convert
2. Why was a witch hunt in Bamberg likely by the 1620s?
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How significant was the role of
von Dornheim in the Bamberg
witch hunt 1626-31?
 Impact of 30 years' war (1618-48) Judicial framework
p.112-113 • In this part of the Holy
• Food shortages and famine as a result of plunder  Roman Empire justice was
• There is forced conscription of men
a local matter and decided
• This combined with inflation and crop failures 
The role of the • The war was initially about religion and made Catholics by the Prince-Bishop (e.g.
Prince-Bishops who had fought for the Counter-Reformation even more authorisation of torture)
p.122-124 suspicious of those that deviated from orthodox Catholic • In 1532 (Carolina Law
behaviours and beliefs.  Code) the use of a range
• E.g., Women who were sexually promiscuous  of torture devices e.g. the
strappado was approved
• The accused were
expected to cover the cost
of prosecution and if
Mini ice-age found guilty to forfeit
p.114 their property to the
Why might trials have
Prince-Bishop
peaked in 1629? The Bamberg
witch-hunt
1623-32 Economic pressures -
inflation and coin clipping
p.115
Three significant individuals who pursue
witches…
Prince Bishop von Aschhausen (1609-22)

Prince Bishop von Dornheim- became known as Hexenbischof (Witch Bishop) (1623-33)

Suffragen Bishop Friedrich Forner (assists Dornheim)

THINK – PAIR – SHARE

What do you think their motives were?

Identify all Dornheim’s potential motives….
Identify all Dornheim’s potential motives….
P.122- 123
• Add to your Von-Dornheim profile
• Read through the role of Frederick Forner
• What role did he play?
• What do his motives seem to have been?
Frederick Forner

• Provides intellectual basis 

• Stoked fear and spread rumours
• Been involved in witch hunting before – with Von Aschhausen

• Religious motives
• Saw the presence of witches as evidence of devil seeing Bamberg
as strong (therefore successful) and needing to put more energy
into it – desperate measures
Where are we now?
Homework
• P.115-117

• Answer the knowledge check questions