Last Updated on februarie 1, 2014
In the book „Spectrum. Roma social research „, the authors show that in Piata Sfatului „were carried out executions with a strong educational role „. Thus, in 1754, when a man who killed his wife was beheaded, Brasov Senate ordered all the men in town to watch the execution. In 1746, the prostitutes were harnessed to a cart and put to carry the garbage in the town square.
Besides the pillar of infamy, the prison and the torture chamber, in the Middle Ages, in Piata Sfatului, was found a so-called „graveyard of prisoners” where there were buried those executed before the House Hall, a place later moved on Galgenberg.
A second execution place in Brasov was in front of the Porzenthor gate, at the citadel exit towards Blumana district, in front of today’s Modarom. Here is mentioned in 1546 Ubi homines comburuntur meaning the place where people were burned. In 1699 a witch was burned at the stake in the same place, near the lake of witches.
The explanation for witch the stake burnings were not conducted in the city center, but outside the city, was the high risk of a fire being started.
In the same area the beheading punishment was practiced and it was also the place where the suicides were buried. Another place where death penalties were carried out is in front of Closterthor gate (today Muresenilor street entry). Here was beheaded, in 1611, Baltazar Oerdegh, Captain of Gabriel Bathory footmen, and in 1699 an animal abuser soldier was burned along with the litigant beef.
And finally, the last medieval Brasov execution place was on Galgenberg, the gallows hill. On the hill in front of the CountyHospital, there was a stone gallows, and legend has it that the master who raised it was the first hanged.
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The gallows was demolished in 1850. Also on this hill is found and home town executioner. In general, at the gates of the town were left to be seen the bodies of those executed as a message to anyone entering the city. Brasov had the right to decide and carry out the death penalty.