Störtebeker route

After a fierce fight, Störtebeker was captured along with 72 pirates. The execution took place at Grasbrook, and all of them marched gallantly in their best clothes behind the drummers to the scaffold, being especially mourned by the women and girls. According to his last request, Störtebeker was to be beheaded first. All fellow prisoners were to be released whom he could still pass by without a head. This request was granted. However, when he had already passed 12 pirates without a head, the executioner tripped him, causing Störtebeker to stagger and fall. Eventually, all were beheaded. Shortly thereafter, Gödeke Michel, Störtebeker's accomplice, was also captured with 80 pirates. They too were all executed. After the executioner had beheaded all 81, a council member asked sympathetically if it had been very exhausting. The executioner responded defiantly and grimly that he had never felt better and was still fresh enough to behead the entire Hamburg council as well. This so horrified the council that the executioner was dismissed without notice. - In almost all castles, there is a treasure of Störtebeker: - Near Putlos (today a military training area), Störtebeker also had a hideout. There, he had laid underground passages and hidden his treasures. Through these passages, the pirates could get from the estate to the Baltic Sea. They probably occasionally encountered the aforementioned sleeping army resting there. - As enlightened Neustadt residents, we do not believe in a treasure of Störtebeker in Neustadt Castle because: - After Störtebeker was caught and executed, the Hamburgers searched his ships in vain for the stolen treasures. Since nothing was found, the ships were sold to a carpenter. When he was about to use the saw, he hit something hard and realized it was gold. After informing the magistrate, they found one mast filled with pure gold, a second with silver, and another filled with copper. The other beams were also hollowed out. The carpenter received a considerable reward, and from the remaining gold, a golden crown was made and hung on the tower of St. Catherine's Church. - Nevertheless, the castle was proven to be a pirate hideout: o Gerlavo o Complaint from Lübeck citizens - Thus, the end of the castle is also owed to the pirates: o On the island in the Neustädter Binnenwasser, which is still called Castle today, the pirate Klaus Störtebeker found shelter in the old castle ruins. One day, dressed like a knight, he walked along the beach to the steep coast to look out for ships. There, he met a pretty peasant girl who was bringing food to her father in the meadow. Störtebeker found her so irresistible that he promised her a golden necklace even more beautiful than that of the lady at Sierhagen. When she refused, he spontaneously kidnapped her. When the girl did not return home that evening, her parents became sad, and the mother soon died of grief. The woman stayed at the castle for 10 years until Störtebeker was executed in Hamburg. When she learned of this, she returned home with her now 7 children and told of her fate. The people of Merkendorf became so angry that they destroyed the castle down to its foundations. Thus, today nothing remains but the name "Castle."