13th–14th centuries
Black Death Massacres in Switzerland
1349·Aarau
Toll
inconnu
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 destroyed community
The community of Aarau was destroyed during the Black Death.
The Aargau city appears in the lists of Swiss communities annihilated; and yet it was in its canton, two and a half centuries later, that the two villages of Endingen and Lengnau received the only Jews tolerated in Switzerland.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Suisse
Sources
Actes des procès suisses ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.