When were corporal punishments such as flogging and branding last applied and abolished in our regions?

Answer

Such severe corporal punishment already disappeared from our regions in the Austrian era, roughly in the period 1770-1775. The French Code des Délits et des Peines of 1795 forbade such highly public, exemplary corporal punishment, but actually confirmed a practice that had been established for twenty years. Incidentally, torture as a method of investigation (not a method of punishment) had also disappeared from the judiciary in the same period and in the same way.