13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Plague in Switzerland
1349·Soleure
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 Soleure was destroyed during the Black Death.
The city appears in the lists of Swiss communities that were annihilated; the confederate cantons subsequently closed their walls to Jews for centuries, and Judaism survived in Switzerland only in a handful of villages in the Aargau Surbtal.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Suisse
Sources
Actes des procès suisses ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.