13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Death in Saxony
1349·Dresde
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 Dresden was destroyed during the Black Death.
The city was then but a small town of the margraves of Meissen; Judaism did not reappear there until the eighteenth century, when the kings of Saxony called court financiers to settle there.
The margraves disposed of the property of the dead, as did the other princes of the Empire; the town had no organized Jewish community for four centuries.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.