Fabritius House & Wolfhagen

Wolfhagen is a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Schinnen. south of the Dutch province of Limburg, at the foot of the Putherberg.

It The town is characterized by a ribbon development on the street of the same name Wolfhagen, which forms a connecting road with the Schinnen belonging to the town of Oirsbeek.

The Fabritius House (Renaissance house from the seventeenth century) is one of the oldest monuments in the municipality of Schinnen, and currently serves as an office building and residence.

Around the seventeenth century, the first gangs of goat riders were formed in Wolfhagen. Founded. Driven by poverty, people of all kinds pooled their forces and formed groups that mainly by means of incendiary letters tried to put pressure on order.

The gang leader of that first The gang of goat riders was Geerling Daniëls, who lived in Wolfhagen at the time. Because the establishment labeled the Bokkenrijders as criminals, many of them, after being captured, imprisoned in the dungeons of Terborgh Castle and after conviction executed (hanged) in the nearby Danikerbos.

Wolfhagen was also the place where the goat riders performed rituals, Witness the following statement by a gang member:

"That he has the oath done in the forest behind Wolfhagen, when aldaer put a keertse (candle) in a standing dead hand was lit and placed on a nosecloth on the ground, and next to it a box containing a large and a small consecrated host, which He had to promise not to hit comrades wherever it was that they would be captured and forced to do so by torture, for this purpose he renounced God and the Devil, then raised the two first fingers and the thumb of the right hand and so they would be caught and the torture and were put to death that they would then do everything revoked."

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