Jasper Hanebuth

Jasper Hanebuth (1607 – 4 February 1653) was a German mercenary in the Thirty Years' War, as well as a robber and murderer.

[1] Jasper Hanebuth was born on the "Hof Pieper", a rebuilt half-timbered complex which today is listed on Buchholz-Kirchweg 72.

He is considered an example of the everyday violence and brutality of morals after the end of the Thirty Years' War.

[citation needed] He subsequently became a horse dealer until he was reported for horse theft and arrested on 14 November 1652, eventually confessing to 10 thefts and 19 murders[1] following repeated threats of torture, "meticulous according to the high justice", in the council of the Altes Rathaus, where he admitted his guilt.

[4] Then, after spending nearly a year in prison, on 3–4 February 1653, he was sentenced "to be judged by the breaking wheel by his limbs from life to death".

Hanebuth's birthplace in Groß-Buchholz, before the renamed sculpture "Hanebuth's last victim"
Information board from Pinkenburger Kreis about the birthplace of Hanebuth
„Hanebuth’s Block“ at the Hanover Zoo
Picture postcard number "283", circa 1898 by Karl F. Wunder
Large pedestral torso XX , „Hanebuth's last victim“
The entrance of Hanebuth's Gang' on the high banks forms a line with the portal of the Royal Hofmarstall and the Kreuzkirche .
The white cross stone near the Lister mile