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298: 206: 258: 217: 136: 22: 394:, the Bavarian steward of Upper Austria, called all of the men from the region to the Haushamerfeld near Frankenburg to hold the assizes. The 36 men who had led the revolt were among the 5,000 gathered. The court sentenced the men to death, but allowed half of them to go free. Two men would step forward, and one would hang while the other would go. A roll of the dice determined their fate. 397:
The steward had thought that the harsh sentence would frighten the peasants, but it only served to increase dissent and give sympathy to the rebels. Over the next year, the peasants secretly prepared for war by recruiting a man from every farmer's house, supplying them with weapons, and teaching them
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command to relieve the town at the end of August. Steyr was won back on September 26, and Wels on September 27. The war went on until the onset of winter, leaving the countryside destroyed. The farmers were now required to feed the 12,000 Bavarian soldiers who were spending winter in the country.
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to lose his farm and begin roaming the country. He eventually became a religious leader who led a popular revolt against aristocratic rule. His revolutionary ideas frightened the rulers so much that they tried to arrest him, leading to another series of uprisings that ended in the
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Upper Austria had been rebellious for centuries, with 62 known uprisings between 1356 and 1849, 14 of which occurred in the 16th century. However, the Peasants' War of 1626 was the costliest in terms of human life and damage to livestock and property. The war caused
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parish was replaced by a Catholic priest sent from Bavaria. After an armed uprising, the new priest was forced to flee from the castle. However, the men feared the reaction from Bavaria and surrendered three days later.
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Stefan Fadinger, elected high commissioner of the Traunviertel and Hausruckviertel districts, and the supreme commander of the rebel army
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In the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, Upper Austria was pledged to the Bavarian Electorate by the
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of 1625) was an escalation of the Bavarian Electorate's attempt to press the country into the
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Most of the leaders of the revolt were decapitated over the following months.
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Model of Peasant rebels attacking the Peuerbach stronghold
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The Frankburger Würfelspiel has forced each two men to play for their life throwing the dice below the rope hanging from the tree that would be used to immediately hang the one who loses – a priest is nearby for a last prayer and a line of Bavarian soldiers guard the scene from the large mass in the background
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