13th–14th centuries
Rintfleisch massacres
1298·Franconie, Bavière, Autriche
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Röttingen, Würzburg, Nuremberg (~600), Rothenburg, Bamberg…
A charge of host desecration in Röttingen, in Franconia, served as the starting point. A man whom the chronicles call Rintfleisch claimed a heavenly mandate to exterminate the Jews, gathered a band, and travelled through the region from town to town over several months.
Franconia, Bavaria, and Austria were traversed: Röttingen, Wurtzbourg, Nuremberg — where the community had taken refuge in the castle without the garrison protecting it —, Rothenbourg, Bamberg. Among the victims at Nuremberg was Mordekhaï ben Hillel, whose talmudic commentary was already an authority.
The Empire was then contested between Adolphe de Nassau and Albert de Habsbourg; no one held Franconia. Victorious, Albert had several ringleaders tried and fined the towns, in his capacity as protector of the Jews of the imperial chamber — that is, as an aggrieved proprietor.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne et Autriche
*Memorbuch* de Nuremberg ; annales de Colmar ; chroniques de Wurtzbourg.