13th–14th centuries
Black Death massacres in Alsace
1349·Rouffach
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 burned, eleven years after the Armleder bands
The community of Rouffach was burned during the Black Death, eleven years after the passage of the Armleder bands through the same region.
Two destructions in one generation: the second completed what the first had begun, and the town remained without Judaism for a long time.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Sources
Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde ; Ginsburger, Les Juifs d'Alsace.