The Vindication of a Witch

Colognes city council is debating about the vindication of a burnt witch 385 years ago. Since her trial in 1627, Katharina Henot, a postmasters daughter, even as a patrician woman, was convicted as witch and burnt according to the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1532) and seen as an obdurate sinner.
In 2012 council and church see her case differently and want to dissociate themselves from these verdicts, as do 14 other municipalities in Germany.
The woman in question, a Catholic, has already been honoured in many ways. A school and a street in Cologne bear her name and her sculpture can be seen at the townhall next to one of Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit and one of the most famous fighters against the obsessive belief in witches.