13th–14th centuries
Black Death massacres in Switzerland
1349·Lucerne
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 Lucerne was destroyed during the Black Death.
The city on the shores of the Lake of the Four Cantons, having shortly before joined the Confederation, is among those where Judaism disappeared entirely; it did not reappear there until after emancipation, in the nineteenth century.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Suisse
Sources
Actes des procès suisses ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.