Agriculture in Ebersberg: Lecture on the massacre of 1634!

Agriculture in Ebersberg: Lecture on the massacre of 1634!

On Monday, June 23, the time has come: Historian Peter Maicher will give an exciting lecture on the topic of "The 30-year war in and around Ebersberg" in the Ebersberger Rathaus. This refers to the terrible massacre of Ebersberg, which took place in 1634 and, as a result, left hundreds of dead and a devastating looting and destruction. Interested parties are cordially invited, admission is free. The event begins at 7.30 p.m. in the meeting room of the town hall at Marienplatz 1, such as Merkur reported.

The lecture illuminates the political, religious and economic causes of this complex conflict, which is considered one of the cruelest wars in Europe. While Maicher deals with the local events in the Ebersberger area, including the Swabian market, Glonn and Zorneding market, from 1618 to 1648, he will also examine the role of foreign powers, the interference of which extended the war. The 30-year war ultimately ended in 1648 with the Westphalian peace, but the civilian population suffered from the consequences of war and plague for a long time, which caused many not to raise any strength for peace celebrations, so Wochenanzeiger.

insight into the horrors of war

A contemporary witness from 1634, forest administrator of the Ebersberg monastery, also gives a lively impression of the atrocities during the war and describes the true extent of the massacre. The perpetrators were not enemy Swedish soldiers, but their own electoral troops who were against their own population. These details not only show the horror that took place in Ebersberg, but also the complex mix of politics, religion and power interest that shaped the conflict.

The lecture is supplemented by over 60 historical illustrations that will help the audience to get a better picture of the conditions at that time. It will be exciting to find out how the events in Ebersberg integrate into the greater context of the Thirty Years' War, which was also shaped by the most brutal arguments in other places, such as the attack of the imperial army in Magdeburg in 1631. Here the city experienced a catastrophe that was initiated by human cruelty, which geo impressively documented.

As Peter Maicher explains in his lecture, the 30-year war pulled wide circles and continued through ever new conflicts and the encounter of Catholic and Lutheran armed forces, but not only for religious reasons. Different power interests meant that the war was not only a struggle for dominance within the Holy Roman Empire, but also a scene of foreign influences. This underlines how history is closely interwoven and still reverberates.