![]() ![]() ![]() The city’s reputation as a “witches nest,” she recalled, was “a disgrace!”3 Marianne Weber, feminist author and spouse of the sociologist Max Weber, went to school in Lemgo as a girl in the 1880s. Over subsequent centuries, this aspect of the city’s past became an increasingly uncomfortable memory for locals. ![]() During four successive waves between 15, more than two hundred Lemgoers were executed as witches.1 Most were women, many of them elderly.2 By cleansing their communities of witches, people believed, they were subverting the Devil’s intentions, exposing his clandestine conspirators, and eradicating evil. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Calvinist region around the city of Lemgo, between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser River, in what is today the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, was a hotbed of witch persecution. ![]()
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