Battle of Frankenhausen
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The Battle of Frankenhausen was fought on 14 and 15 May 1525. It was an important battle in the German Peasants' War and the final act of the war in Thuringia: joint troops of Landgrave Philip I of He
Page 077 Die letzte Bauernschlacht bei Frankenhausen am 25. Mai 1525
Barren chalk gully (Wuestes Kalktal) probable site of the skirmish on 14 May between the princes' scouting party and rebel contingents
A 16th century falconet in the Bauernkriegsmuseum, Mühlhausen
Replica Rainbow Banner of the Mühlhäuser band which set off for Frankenhausen under Thomas Müntzer - now in Mühlhausen Museum
Thomas Müntzer
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Thomas Müntzer was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central
Battle of Frankenhausen
…act of the war in Thuringia: joint troops of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and Duke George of Saxony defeated the peasants under their spiritual leader Thomas Müntzer near Frankenhausen in the County of Schwarzburg. On April 29, 1525, the struggles in and around Frankenhausen had culminated into an open revolt. Large…
Müntzer, imagined in a 1608 engraving by Christoffel van Sichem
St Katharine's Church in Zwickau, where Thomas Müntzer preached
The castle at Allstedt
Rebellious peasants of 1525