13th–14th centuries
Black Death Massacres in Alsace
1349·Munster (Alsace)
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 Munster, in the Fecht valley in Alsace, was destroyed during the Black Death.
The town had grown up around an abbey and lived by the cloth trade; the small Jewish community lent money to the weavers and peasants of the upper valleys.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Sources
Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde ; Ginsburger, Les Juifs d'Alsace.