Bundschuh movement

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Rebellious peasants surrounding a knight. The Bundschuh ("tied shoe") emblem is displayed on their banner. Bundschuhfahne Holzschnitt 1539 Petrarcas Trostspiegel.jpg
Rebellious peasants surrounding a knight. The Bundschuh ("tied shoe") emblem is displayed on their banner.
Bundschuhfahne with the Bundschuh emblem. Bundschuhfahne (brown-on-white version).svg
Bundschuhfahne with the Bundschuh emblem.

The Bundschuh movement (German: Bundschuh-Bewegung) refers to a series of localized peasant rebellions in southwestern Germany from 1493 to 1517. They were one of the causes of the German Peasants' War (1524–1525). The Bundschuh movement was not a movement in the proper sense, but a number of loosely linked local conspiracies and planned uprisings. It was so called because of the tied peasant shoe (Bundschuh) the peasants displayed on their flag. Under this flag, peasants and city dwellers had defeated the troops of the French count of Armagnac along the Upper Rhine in 1439, 1443, and 1444.

Individual uprisings seeking relief from oppressive taxes, arbitrary justice systems, high debts, costly ecclesiastic privileges, serfdom, prohibitions on hunting and fishing, and the like occurred in 1476 in Niklashausen (Tauber valley), 1493 in Schlettstadt (now Sélestat)/Alsace, for the first time under the Bundschuh banner), 1502 in Bruchsal and Untergrombach, 1513 in Lehen (Breisgau), and 1517 along the Upper Rhine. Each of these was defeated very quickly, and the leaders, such as Joß Fritz, were generally executed.

Bundschuh

As a sign displayed on their flag the peasants chose the Bundschuh (=tied shoe), a leather shoe typical of peasants. It was to symbolise the joint rising and advance of the peasants against their lords. It also contrasted the boots worn by knights with their spurs.

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