13th–14th centuries
Massacres of Rintfleisch
1298·Ochsenfurt
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 community destroyed
Ochsenfurt, on the Main downstream from Würzburg, saw its community destroyed during the Rintfleisch summer, and then again during the Armleder massacres. Both waves followed the same valley and struck the same towns.
It is this geography that explains the extent of the disaster: Franconia was crisscrossed by small towns close enough to one another for a band on foot to pass from one to the next in a single day, and similar enough that the same accusation would take hold everywhere.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Nürnberger Memorbuch ; chroniques franconiennes.