Frankenstein gravediggers scandal

The Frankenstein town gravediggers scandal
Chapel of St. Nicholas in Ząbkowice Śląskie
Duration20 September 1606 - 13 February 1607
LocationZąbkowice Śląskie, Poland
Coordinates50°35′33.9″N 16°48′46.7″E / 50.592750°N 16.812972°E / 50.592750; 16.812972
ConvictedA total of 17 people were executed in this case, by mutilation and burning at the stake

The Frankenstein town gravediggers scandal is the case of the capture and sentencing in 1606 of gravediggers from the town of Frankenstein in Silesia in the Bohemian Crown (now Ząbkowice Śląskie in Lower Silesia, Poland) who were accused of witchcraft, desecrating corpses and bringing plague. These events are related to the small chapel of St. Nicholas that still exists today, standing on the site of the old cemetery founded in 1552 at today's ul. 1 Maja in Ząbkowice Śląskie.

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