Bacon Dumpling Riot

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The bacon dumpling uprising or the bacon dumpling demonstration is the first documented attempt to establish Protestant ideas in Freising .

In the mid-1520s, Pastor Christoph and his co-worker Hans Ergkinger from the St. Veit Church, which belongs to the Princes' Diocese of Freising and is located on the hillside on Weihenstephaner Berg, began to gather around a group of about a dozen like-minded people who were particularly interested in the teachings of the Anabaptists , but also other Reformation theses and currents. A first step in the resistance took place in the spring of 1527, when the Freising woman Katharina Mair, in the middle of the very strict Lent at that time, went with a bowl full of bacon dumplings through the middle of the city to the house of the barber Zumbrecht . a. also by the cooperator from St. Veit. Katharina addressed the cathedral preacher in short letters and suggested her view of penance. At Easter 1528, the followers of the circle living in the parish of St. George turned to the pastor and demanded that instead of an ear confession, he should be acquitted of sins according to a general confession of sins. They were denied this. Hans Ergkinger made the confession in the desired form for part of the group, while others did without it entirely. Nevertheless, they received communion in the Freising Cathedral . The church authorities who had now become aware had members of the district arrested and interrogated. Katharina Mair and her mother were also subjected to the embarrassing questioning . On May 13, 1528, Katharina Mair was pilloried and a cross burned onto her forehead. Then they were banished from the Hochstift. The sentence of the other participants is not known. In Freising today the street named after Katharina Mair commemorates the bacon dumpling uprising.

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