15th–17th centuries
Wiener Gesera
1420·Steyr
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 Steyr was destroyed during the Wiener Gesera.
The iron city of Upper Austria lived by the trade in blades and weapons; its Jewish community, one of the last in the region above Linz, disappeared along with the others and never reconstituted itself in the Middle Ages.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Autriche
Sources
Lohrmann, Judenrecht und Judenpolitik im mittelalterlichen Österreich ; Dossier de la Wiener Gesera.