Schladming peasant and miners revolt
The Schladming peasants and miners revolt of 1525 was directed against the authorities in the also secular prince-archbishopric of Salzburg for social and religious reasons . It was one of the numerous social unrest that year, which is summarized as the German Peasant War .
The center was Schladming in Styria . At that time around 1,500 miners lived there , many of whom were Lutherans . They already had their own preacher, who was arrested in 1524. The miners now joined the rebellious peasants, but the uprising was put down. Schladming was devastated and the revoked town charter was only given again after the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire.
literature
- Roland Schäffer: The Upper Styrian farmers 'and miners' uprising and the attack on Schladming in 1525 (= Booklet 62 of the Military History Series of the Army History Museum). Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1989.