13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Death in Silesia
1349·Brieg
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 community destroyed
The community of Brieg, on the Oder, was destroyed during the Black Death.
The ducal city, today Brzeg, appears in the lists of annihilated Silesian communities; the property of the dead reverted to the duke and the burghers, according to the partition that took place throughout the Empire.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Sources
Bondy et Dvorský, Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.