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Simmern, where Elise was able to visit him twice. With the help of his friend, Philipp Arnold, who sat in the guard room, Johannes Bückler was able to flee on the night of 19/20 August 1799. The dungeon in the tower was in its round basement, which could only be reached from above through a hatch through which the prisoners were lowered and raised. The prisoners were also supplied through this hole with the most essential food. However, Bückler was not kept in this dungeon, but in a prison cell above it. Bückler cut through the door boards with a secretly hidden knife and glued them back together again with chewed bread as glue. When a good opportunity arose, he left the cell, broke through a kitchen window loosely barred with iron, and from there jumped from the first floor into the moat of the city wall, dislocating his leg or breaking his fibula.
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and celebrated with him and friends where they had ordered Jewish bankers to make music. Meanwhile, Seligmann passed the house with a cow and was seen by Petri. Petri asked Bückler to follow him. In pairs, they attacked the Jew and stabbed him repeatedly to death before plundering his body. Whether
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in the legal sense, in which several people agreed to commit crimes for a certain period of time. All in all, however, it can be ascertained that, in particular, the numerous tramps and vagrants tried to secure a subsistence living by thefts. Short-term associations were the rule. However, Bückler
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who had occupied the Electorate of Trier, west of the Rhine, since 1801. After several thorough interrogations, however, he was handed over to the authorities with Julchen and some accomplices on 16 June 1802 and they were taken to French-occupied
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2139:Peter Klaus
1883:Witte Wiwer
1813:Santa Claus
1785:Poltergeist
1729:Moss people
1666:King Laurin
1575:Feldgeister
1526:Elwetritsch
1103:www.zeit.de
791:Wied-Runkel
684:Carl Benzel
581:Bad Camberg
472:Schmidtburg
466:Locations:
458:Crime spree
317:Seibersbach
309:Iltis-Jacob
305:Peter Petri
299:Black Peter
260: [
202:Wallenbrück
198:Koppenstein
190:executioner
163:guillotined
143:gendarmerie
108:petty theft
2401:Categories
2332:Freischütz
2209:Tannhäuser
2062:Hildebrand
2020:Gundomar I
1978:Friar Rush
1827:Tatzelwurm
1792:Rasselbock
1743:Nachzehrer
1736:Nachtkrapp
1708:Lutzelfrau
1617:Hinzelmann
1582:Frau Holle
1470:Christkind
1463:Changeling
1428:Belsnickel
1264:Literature
1046:References
1032:board game
1022:Hans Stüwe
1002:Robin Hood
963:inter alia
955:university
927:guillotine
863:indictment
850:confession
807:long hedge
787:lieutenant
717:Sonnschied
654:Lettweiler
563:Hottenbach
552:Steinhardt
500:Bundenbach
492:Hahnenbach
480:Kallenfels
476:Hahnenbach
440:Scheidbach
371:Hahnenbach
272:Merzweiler
225:Bernkastel
75:pronounced
2104:Lohengrin
1862:Wild Hunt
1652:Klagmuhme
1435:Bergmönch
1407:Aufhocker
1284:The Rhine
1071:Hugo 1845
943:execution
898:Execution
689:Landsturm
545:Neubrücke
535:Otzweiler
521:Wickenhof
512:Saar area
418:Morscheid
363:Stromberg
355:Kirchberg
347:Herrstein
341:of Kirn,
327:juridical
322:Argenthal
229:Hilscheid
194:Kirchberg
135:Rhineland
2482:Naheland
2370:See also
2118:Nibelung
2034:Hannikel
1936:Brunhild
1869:Wild man
1806:Rübezahl
1694:Lindworm
1596:Heimchen
1533:Erdhenne
1449:Bogeyman
1442:Bieresel
1421:Beerwolf
1400:Askafroa
1386:Alberich
1164:23052947
939:scaffold
884:coercion
880:vagrancy
809:, today
734:henchmen
726:murderer
626:Corporal
592:Merxheim
400:One day
288:deserted
250:Naumburg
233:Thalfang
159:Holzturm
131:Hunsrück
118:and the
58:) was a
2006:Gunther
1771:Perchta
1750:Nis Puk
1701:Lorelei
1687:Krampus
1631:Irrwurz
1624:Hödekin
1554:Fänggen
1540:Erlking
1414:Bahkauv
1237:July 9,
1200:July 9,
1155:3543766
1108:July 9,
1034:called
997:Alcools
811:Villmar
705:Laudert
603:Lemberg
594:(Near).
474:in the
359:Simmern
351:Rhaunen
339:cantons
284:Moravia
183:Miehlen
167:tourism
127:Simmern
96:Miehlen
2353:Vineta
2265:Witege
2195:Sigurd
2125:Ortnit
2013:Gudrun
1922:Attila
1900:People
1820:Schrat
1680:Kobold
1610:Hemann
1561:Fasolt
1378:Beings
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935:Neutor
931:Gautor
920:prison
795:Runkel
633:Sötern
585:Taunus
577:Würges
387:"Amie"
313:Jewish
173:Origin
116:France
104:tanner
63:outlaw
60:German
1964:Faust
1841:Uhaml
1834:Türst
1589:Gütel
1498:Drude
1008:play
912:death
857:Trial
831:Mainz
715:from
703:from
622:Hesse
605:near
416:near
266:near
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241:Baden
231:near
155:Mainz
112:Rhine
102:to a
1239:2023
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1160:PMID
1110:2023
882:and
738:gang
579:(at
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373:and
367:Nahe
361:and
294:Life
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243:and
218:Zell
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