"On 6 th October 1894 the Duke of Coburg was shot here` s Heger Johann Brandl found, pray for his soul and his murderer. "
The Brandl-cross is in the truce village of Bull, the local field name is chicken scratch, also called the bathhouse and is accessed via the so-called Ziegelofenweg, it is close to the current district boundary to Erdberg.
to the so-called BRANLD - cross ties to this story:
extract from the former police report
extract from the 1926/1927 school chronicle, Karl Kargl, head of the school.
The Coburg Heger Johann Brandl from Erdberg heard on 4 October (1894) morning in his territory 2 shots. He was going to keep look-up home, but never returned. One side of the stripes of forest workers and the gendarmerie remained fruitless.
until 6 October, the body of Anton Brandl Kindl from Bull village, which was busy with his mother in the vineyard in the so-called Bartsübl with the harvest, covered in a furrow lying and Kukuruzstengeln found. The body was dragged by the killer here.
For inspection of the corpse became a grazing shot to the head, some shot pellets in the face, a terrible wound on his right chest and a Gunshot wound to the heart seen in the abdomen.
The rifle and the floor of the BRANDL were not present at the funeral. The ground was soaked
as a result of very heavy rain over several days, but in the immediate vicinity of the site and were indeed traces of bare feet, and found the boots of BRANDL originating tracks.
The police behaved now than all the famous people from poachers and Erdberg Bullendorf an alibi evidence. The thief known as a dangerous wild Josef Hartmann Erdberg it was not possible to prove his alibi.
At the crime scene was found by comparison to suggest that the footprints of Hartmann.
In a bridge in the village bull was the gun shot Brandl found, also in a hollow tree 2 rabbits.
had hidden in the tree of the perpetrators before the hunt even his boots. After the murder he put on his boots and went to Wilfersdorf. On closer inspection
the boot tracks, people realized that the right boot in paragraph five large nails and pads on the front two spots and had three nails. In Hartmann 1 pair was found boots, of which the boot from the right foot completely found the footprints matched.
Josef Hartmann was taken to the coroner. After much denial, he confessed to the murder.
Hartmann was sentenced to death by hanging. The death penalty was looked him in the way of grace and punished with imprisonment for life.
was in 1918 he once pardoned and released from prison.
local cover the market town Wilfersdorf 1979
The hunters of bull village has its own resources can be professionally refurbish the forgotten Brandl Cross. Rev. Ferdinand Brait has consecrated with great participation of the villagers in the form of processions of this monument.
This shrine reminds us, have lived in what time people around 1890. Not at that time was on one side and the duty on the other side. will chiseled in stone We retained this memory.
Many thanks to all who have helped to preserve this wonderful monument.
cost carrier was the cultural and beautification society Bull Village
with about ATS 15.000, -. (Austrian schillings)
hunters Bullendorf 2006
renovation of BRANDL - Cross
Field Mass at BRANDL - cross with brunch
the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Hunting Club's.
112ten occasion of anniversary of the death of Johann Brandl, and the renovation of the memorial was on 08 October 2006, a field mass with Father Ernst Brandl STEINDL the cross-held. After the field was
fair is a brunch and enjoying each
the Hunter house, instead of the local population and the hunters from Bull village and the surrounding villages. Welcome the friends were invited from the family and Erdberg Coburg.
For those people who had no transport facility, was a shuttle service between the village church in Bull, Brandl Cross and the club house hunters set up.
The Hunting Horn Group - Zayatal provided the musical backdrop for the event.
NEDOSCHIL Franz, a friend and patron of the hunt in the village had Bull, a film about the processions and open-air mass in the cross-Brandl 1979 and a film about the main game in 1979 presented and commented.
For the palate, it was venison sausages from our own area deer.
This event was preceded by renovations at Brandl - Cross which were largely carried out by hunters Bull villages under the guidance of stonemasonry Thornton in Laa / Thaya.
The costs of EUR 1.550, - € were all adopted by the community Wilfersdorf.
In this context, would like to thank the board of the Hunting Club's Bull village near the town very much for the adoption of the cost.
The same thanks are also Weidkameraden all hunting and all foreign persons who are in the renovation of BRANDL Cross and in the planning and conduct of the field mass and have brunch with film screening introduced and involved.
excerpt from the booklet for the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Hunting Club Bull's village and the search by Joseph KOHZINA.