Hen war
Warlike conflicts between the Lower Engadine, which is under Habsburg influence and the control of the Church of God , on the one hand and the Habsburg Tyrol on the other hand, in the years 1475 and 1476, are referred to as the hen war .
In the struggle for influence on the Lower Engadine, the Engadin allegedly refused to pay their taxes in the form of carnival chickens to the Austrian keepers of Nauders - hence the name "Hennenkrieg". The reason for the refusal was that in 1471 an imperial court of arbitration in Glurns had denied the bishop in the Lower Engadine the higher-level jurisdiction .
Thereupon the bailiffs of Nauders and Schlandersberg undertook a retaliatory campaign to enforce their feudal claims. A Tyrolean warband devastated Ramosch and the Tschanüff Castle there , but was driven out with the help of the Upper Engadin . The conflicts then smoldered in Nauders, where the local castle was stormed. Engadin and Nauderer mutually devastated their fields. It was not until 1492 that the bishop made another attempt to regain control of the high court.
In 1499 the hen war was continued in the Swabian War, when Tyrol occupied the Val Müstair and the Vinschgau in order to enforce its rights in the Engadine.
Web links
- The hen war in 1475. on the site of the Tschanüff castle ruins
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook of Graubünden History . Volume 1. Chur 2005, p. 273.
- ^ Ottavio Clavuot: Engadin - 3 The Lower Engadin from the High Middle Ages to the 17th century. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 4, 2014 , accessed July 1, 2019 .
- ^ History of Nauders , accessed on July 5, 2010.