Speyer

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


1096

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


1349

January 1349
The city's Jews, under suspicion of conspiring to cause the Plague, were burned to death. Their bodies were placed in big wine casks and sent floating down the Rhine.


1356

A man was burned to death for spreading the teachings of the Free Spirit heresy.


1533

10 September 1533
Caspar Schwenckfeld arrived here, on his way to Augsburg.





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