13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Death in Franconia
1349·Kitzingen
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 for the third time in half a century
The community of Kitzingen, on the Main, was destroyed for the third time in half a century.
Rintfleisch, then the Armleder bands, then the plague: this small Franconian wine-growing town bears, in itself alone, the measure of what the fourteenth century meant for the Jews of southern Germany.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Sources
Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.