1096

The city's Jews were massacred by participants in the First Crusade.

1349

March 1349

The city's Jews, under suspicion of conspiring to cause the Plague, were burned to death.

1527

February 1527

Hans Denck arrived here from Strasbourg, via Landau, and began working with Hebrew scholar Ludwig Haetzer. Denck helped Haetzer produce the first German translation of the Hebrew Prophets, which rapidly became a best-seller. In the course of their work, they obtained the assistance of several rabbis from the town's Jewish ghetto. Denck also wrote his final treatise, Of the True Love, while staying here.

9 June 1527

Jacob Kautz, one of Denck's followers, posted 7 Anabaptist theses on the door of the Dominican Church.

13 June 1527

Jacob Kautz and others defended their Anabaptist positions in front of large crowds, angering the Catholic and Lutheran authorities.

1 July 1527

Jacob Kautz and his colleague Hilarius were expelled by the city council. Denck and Haetzer left town soon afterwords. A month later Denck was in Augsburg.

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