Wandering around the Basel of the Spirit called Weisse Tod, or apparently white death terrorizes the district around the baroque building of Markgräflerhof. Who was this terrifying spirit, insight into the windows of people with empty and obscure eye sockets?
On the winding medieval streets of Stara Basel, where the shadows accumulate densely under the curious hoods of centuries -old houses, there was once special faith. It was said that the Moon in a up-to-date man, with an empty black sky, was a time when the veil between the worlds thinned, and the most restless dead city increased to walk among the living.
Basel citizens have learned to squeeze the shutters in these nights, because the moon in the up-to-date moon did not bring peace, but the spectrum procession. The most crucial of them was the terrifying character simply known as Weisse Tod or “White Death”.
White death of Marcgräflerhof
In Markgräflerhof, a great residence directed towards the Rhine, the locals swore that with each up-to-date man it is a ghostly revelation called Weisse Tod from a hole in the ground near the edge of the water – jagged, deadly pale with empty, obscure eyes that seemed to drink the night.
Markgräflerhof was built in 1698–1705 by Margrave Margrave Friedrich V from Baden-Durlach and is the oldest baroque palace in the country. Markgräflerhof, purchased by the city in 1808, with related gardens and farm buildings, together with the neighboring area of the monastery of former preachers and the Botanical Garden of the University, constituted the basis of the up-to-date building of the Basel Citizens Hospital. Today it is used by the university as an office building.
White death was tenacious in its habits. It would appear in the windows of the surrounding houses on Hebelrasse, staring quietly, his empty eyes stopped at the inhabitants. It was believed that those who met his eyes would suffer seriously soon after – as if the death itself marked them.
Who was the spirit of white death?
But what was the knowledge for the legend? Although the story of white death was widely told, there were few details and information who actually persecuted this place. Was the legend maybe changed into a hospital? Any pathetic patient or doctor who died? There is also some joining with his time as crazy asylum.
Was it from the time before the Marcgräflerhof was still built? As it turns out, this is not the only neighborly spirit, which is said to be haunted by Basel. In Kleinbasel, a working class district, they also had gray on the streets of the area.
What about the name, white death? Throughout Europe, this name was often given tuberculosis, and its victims were often accepted by white death. As if there was an epidemic for years, or did the fear of the disease cause fear of the personification of the spirit of the disease near the hospital?
A shaded man in the fountain of St.
The spirit of white death, however, is not the only spectral thing to persecute this area. Right around the corner, along Blumenrain in Rheintürlein, another spirit appeared around up-to-date moons.
In the elderly fountain of St. Urban, near the city gate, Townsfolk claimed that a man in a obscure, age-old outfit would appear without warning. He would stop at the edge of the water, staring quietly at the depth of the pool, as if he was looking for a long lost reflection.
It is said that his face was covered, either by Shadow, or some unchanging distortion, and his presence cools the air around him. Many whispered that he was a soul lost in the river – perhaps a suicide or a murdered man whose body was hidden in water.
Municipal church bells would take an additional hour before midnight in these nights, which is the last effort to repel restless souls. And although Marktgräflerhof and the elderly fountain have long been changed or lost with modernity, some say that the air along the Rhine still feels weighty into the clergy -nutritional nights, and obscure shapes move to where nobody should.
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