First lintel in Prague
The first lintel in Prague marks the beginning of the Hussite Wars . On July 30, 1419, the Hussites , supporters of Jan Hus , who had been executed at the stake as a heretic four years earlier at the Council of Constance , stormed the New Town Hall on Karlsplatz in Prague to free fellow believers imprisoned there. They threw ten people out of the window: the mayor, two councilors, the deputy judge, five community elders and a servant. The fallen were then killed with cutting weapons that the waiting crowd had hidden under their clothing. Another councilor died in the torture chamber. The popular uprising had been prepared by radical reform supporters with the preacher Johann von Seelau at the head.
King Wenzel became so angry and afraid of this action that he suffered a stroke, of which he died on August 16, 1419. In front of the town hall is a bronze monument made by Jaroslava Lukešová in 1960 , which commemorates Johann von Seelau.
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Laurentius von Březová, The Hussites. The Chronicle of Laurentius von Březová 1414-1421, trans. u. ed. by Josef Bujnoch (Slavic historian 11), Graz et al. 1988, pp. 54–55.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ František Šmahel : The Hussite Revolution. Volume 2. Hahn, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-5443-9 , p. 1003.