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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.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Aarau.

In the same country22

  1. 1294Ritual murder accusation called 'of Rudolf'toll not established
  2. 1348Accusation of poisoning the wellsinconnu
  3. 1348Accusation of well poisoninginconnu
  4. septembre 1348Trial of Chillondizaines
  5. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Switzerlandinconnu
  6. 1349Black Death massacres in Switzerlandinconnu
  7. 1349Black Death massacres in Switzerlandinconnu
  8. 1349Black Death massacres in Switzerlandinconnu

And 14 more in the catalogue.

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