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6.9.5-7 is the most recent cygwin-version.
7.0.5 is the windows installation. These really should not interfere.

Be sure your convert is the ImageMagick convert and not the Windows convert. check! Is working correctly. The problem is with cygwin's ImageMagick
Also be sure your input and output ...

$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.5-7 Q16 x86_64 2016-12-23 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2016 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC OpenMP
Delegates (built-in): autotrace bzlib cairo fftw fontconfig ...

Finally I have Image-Magick for Windows installed.

Following behaviour in cygwin:
$ /cygdrive/c/Programme/ImageMagick-7.0.5-Q16/convert.exe z06.png -crop 500x500+200+200 test.jpg
is working

$ convert z06.png -crop 500x500+200+200 test.jpg
does not generate any output

I think it is safe to make ...

I'm using convert from cygwins bash. Sorry, I might appera as a total noob, but I am not sure what is meant by "from Windows CMD".
convert in cygwin's bash is executing /usr/bin/convert.exe. In Windows CMD convert<RET> will execute c:\windows\system32\convert.exe, which is a conversion tool from FAT ...

... didn't work either? Something is badly wrong. Sorry, I have no idea what. I suggest you re-install ImageMagick.
The execution time also suggests that imagemagick is somehow crashing. Converting a big jpg to png takes 2-3 seconds. With any resize or crop the convert command immediately finishes ...

bad_pos_P1.png is 1440x900+0+0 but:
Of cousre the original image is bigger. That is the purpose of cropping :D

This is happening with all images. And image magick can convert the file bad_pos_P1.png to jpg. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that file.
~/test
$ convert.exe -size ...

Hello,

I am using image magick within cygwin (Version: ImageMagick 6.9.5-7 Q16 x86_64 2016-08-27) to convert the image data to text output. The text output is parsed by some awk script to do some calculations.
It seems suddenly (poosibly some update) the script stopped working because image magick ...