Personal for his beliefs, the spirit of David Joris, the notable heretic who persecuted his senior house Spießhof in Basel. According to the media, he will not leave before cleaning his name.
Located on the winding streets of the Old Town of Basel, surrounded by Renaissance facades and shuddered streets, stands the Spießhof building in Höibarg 5 and 7. In the 13th century it was called House of Spiess. A modest, but impressive structure, whose handsome external external denies the shadowy and persistent presence. For almost 450 years, the house has been persecuted by one of the most disturbing Switzerland phantoms: the headless spirit of David Joris.
His story is a religious struggle, treason and posthumous revenge, and to this day the inhabitants swear that in some headed fogs a headless figure circulates in the corridors of the building, in the company of two spectral black dogs with eyes like velvety coals.
The sanctuary of the heretic changed the tomb
The story begins in the mid -16th century, while Europe was convulsed by the violent secondary shocks of Protestant Reformation. David Joris, a charismatic Dutch preacher, glass spot and painter, gathered controversial following in low countries for his unconventional religious teachings. Supporter of the radical movement of Anabaptists called the sect of Muskat Dawidit, of which he was the leader.
Joris believed in the baptism of adults, pacifism, a preacher for polygamy and personal mystical relationship with God, which were the views considered dangerously heretical both by Catholic and Protestant authorities.
Escaping with his wife Dirckgen and his family, Joris came to Basel in 1544 under a false name, claiming that he is a respected buyer who claims he is Zwinglian. In addition to his wife, with whom he had eleven children, he himself had a “spiritual fiancée”, Anna von Berch, sister of his future son -in -law, with whom he also had several children and later married one of his followers. The city, known for the relative tolerance of religious refugees, welcomed him.
There, he established a wealthy household, secretly running a colony of similarly thinking followers, while accumulating significant wealth and status when he passed under the name Jan Van Brügge.
However, after his death, his secrets fell apart.
Exhumation and desecration
When Joris died on August 28, 1556, it was said that lightning hit the building, he was buried with distinction that suits a man with his public reputation. He died three years after his wife and was placed next to her in the church of St. Leonardo.
But during the year the truth was revealed about his beliefs of Anabaptists. Angry that a heretic made among them, the Basel authorities ordered his body to exhtress three years after his death. In a macabre and symbolic act of condemnation, they cut his corpse and hung them in front of the Spalen gate before they burned him, an eternal punishment aimed at breaking his soul from salvation.
Some say that his remains were buried in the building, others say that his ashes spread to Rhine.
This violent desecration was not the end of David Joris. If so, this meant the beginning of his restless visitation.
The headless spectrum and its hellishly
According to the local legend, the beheaded spirit of Joris soon began to wander around the Spießhof building, where he once lived in secret. Witnesses for centuries described a noisa man dressed in clothes from the 16th century with his head at hand, wandering in the corridors and the internal courtyard, in the company of two massive black great Danes. It is said that the hounds have unnaturally glowing eyes and aura of hostility, following the master through the darkness like a gloomy familiarity.
Some versions of this story say that dogs are the ghostly incarnation of his guilt, while others suggest that they are demonic carers associated with Joris as a result of heretical pats made in life.
Folklore in the heart of Basel was ongoing
Although today the spy builds government houses and private apartments, amazing legends persist. Personnel and residents reported Phantom stops, frigid places and sudden drags, even on windless nights. It is also said that it sounds like clunking
There are stories about unexplained barking through the empty corridors, and the door slaughter of their own will. Several senior women saw him in their property in Binningen, driving through his lands. However, it is said that the Franciscan monk of Kapucins banished the ghost to the bell Binningen Castle. Others saw him walking through Holeeholz.
On some vague evenings, some say that he sees a shadow of a headless character passing next to the upper windows, accompanied by pliable lining of undetectable paws. The media who visited the house claim that it will not leave until his name was cleaned by the authorities.
In the affluent gobelis folklore and spiritual stories of David Joris, the spectral presence stands out as one of the oldest and most disturbing visits of the city – a gloomy reminder of religious intolerance, secret life and restless dead.
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The body condemned to death, which was still persecuted in Basel Spiesshof
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