The municipalities that subsequently submitted a plan all have a historical connection with witch persecutions. The most victims were in Roermond, says Manja Bedner of the National Witches Monument Foundation. In Oudewater, women who were suspected of witchcraft could be weighed and thus perhaps exonerate themselves. In the town of ‘s-Heerenberg in the municipality of Montferland lived Mechteld ten Ham, who was considered a witch and was burned. In this town, attention is already being paid to her story.
Oudewater wants National Witches Monument, Roermond and Montferland also in the running
