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13th–14th centuries

« Werner of Oberwesel » affair

1287-1288·Oberwesel, Bacharach

Toll
~40

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

The body of a young man named Werner was found near Bacharach, on the bank of the Rhine. He was said to have been martyred by the Jews of Oberwesel for his blood, and the violence spread along the river and the Moselle, from Boppard to Koblenz and into the region of Trier.

Rudolf of Habsburg ordered that it cease, had the surviving communities protected and fined the towns. He could do nothing against the cult: Werner was venerated as a saint, a chapel was erected to him in Bacharach, his name inscribed in the calendar of the diocese of Trier, and his feast day was not removed until 1963.

The middle Rhine did not recover from that decade: after 1283 and 1287, many of their members departed eastward, toward Bohemia and Poland, whose rulers offered charters.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Trials and executions
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

*Memorbuch* de Nuremberg ; annales de Colmar ; actes de Rodolphe de Habsbourg.

At the same place1

  1. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in the Rhinelandinconnu

In the same country304

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 296 more in the catalogue.

Event 224 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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