Addition of the final battle in the German Peasant War 500 years ago in Bad Frankenhausen
Photo: Picture Alliance/dpa | Matthias Bein
The German Peasant War was the largest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution, «writes the historian Lyndal Roper, born in Melbourne in 1956 and teaching history of the early modern period. She is known and familiar to the German audience with her book “Man Martin Luther”.
The daughter of a pastor focuses on events in her new book. For example, she describes in detail on May 23, 1525, the day on which Hans Müller from Bulgenbach and his men managed to take Freiburg. This victory was »an extraordinary achievement. In a darling attack, Müller’s troops secured control over the Schlossberg above the city with all the shooting powder and all ammunition. “But the author also knows:” The Freiburg humanist Ulrich Zasius had originally supported Luther, but was hit when his house and his library was hit “was a confirmation of his growing hostility to the new religion.”
Roper meticulously pursues the events in other places in southwestern Germany, in Alsace as in Thuringia or the Alps. In her conclusion, she comes to speak on what she believes the Bauer War denominational: »In the war region, almost 45 percent of the monastic facilities were attacked and some were so severely destroyed that they could not be rebuilt. Of the approximately 170 Cistercian monasteries and conventions, 113 were damaged or destroyed or almost two thirds of the more than 200 Benedictine houses. “All of this was done on the basis of the denominational criticism summarized in the introduction of the” Memminger “:” The Christian reader is peace and Mercy of God for Christ’s sake. “However, there are” many counter -artists (anti -nuclear) who now take the opportunity towards the assembled peasantry to abuse the gospel by saying that these are the fruits of the newly translated gospel “. The Lutheran Bible translation is meant. In the “twelve articles”, social and economic freedom demands of the farmers were also formulated. »The farmers were angry, but not so much because of certain taxes, rights and early services, rather they were angry with the entire system of rule, which according to their feeling against Christ was directed. “According to Rober, the human rights formulated for the first time in German” articles “had a Protestant-Christian origin.
Lyndal Roper: “For Freedom”. The peasant war 1525. S. Fischer, 672 pages, born, € 36.
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