13th–14th centuries
Black Death Massacres in Switzerland
1349·Rheinfelden
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 destroyed community
The community of Rheinfelden, on the Rhine, was destroyed during the Black Death.
The Habsburg city, facing the Alsatian Sundgau, is numbered among those where Judaism was annihilated; the river carried from one bank to the other the rumor of poisoned wells as it carried commerce.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Suisse
Sources
Actes des procès suisses ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.