The condemned were not only hanged from the gallows, but also, according to each one’s sentence, broken on the wheel, drawn and quartered or beheaded.
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It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
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Under Prussian administration, Retterath was a municipality in the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Kelberg in the Adenau district.