Dear Visitor

This documentation is the work of a private team, and as otherwise there is no other relevant research on the mysterious torture prison of the Catholic Inquisition, this is literally the only source of information about the Malefiz House of the Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim.

Several years of voluntary meticulous research and digital reconstruction result in more than 50 Web pages, two blogs and our new Malefiz House-Wiki (the english version will be acrtiv soon).

We have laid great emphasis on authentic implementation - with no line we try to exaggerate or even exaggerate this human catastrophe of the 17 th-century. All sources used are specified correctly and that the casualties we have taken from the only scientific work of Dr. Brigitte Gehm. (The witch hunts in the Bishopric of Bamberg and the intervention of the Reichshofrat to its completion - 2002)

The existence and the cruel torture methods that were applied over approximately 54 months in this prison are documented in several hundred original document files that are located in the State Library and State Archives of Bamberg.

In the Malefiz House hundreds of men, women and children were tortured so cruelly and methodically, that they even denounced their own family members before then - almost without exception - "they were burnt to powder and ashes".

The extent of the three waves of witch persecution in the Archdiocese of Bamberg was so unique, that there is no comparable example in the history of Europe.

Bamberg became the center of the Catholic witch-hunt - and although the inner city core, since 1993 was declared as a U.N.E.S.C.O-World Heritage Site, there is no visible working up of the mass murder of the Catholic Church - but the Malefiz House was definitely within the historic city limits.

Anyone who wants to understand the unique history of the city of Bamberg, cannot ignore and censor any longer he dark past, and - the people who visit the city must have a real chance to experience the unpopular truth and the innocent victims deserve a respectful remembrance.