Krems

In Krems, a total of 2 epidemic events are known so far. It is a City in Lower Austria in Austria. The coordinates are 48° 25' 0.00" N, 15° 37' 0.00" E.

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Disease	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1349-00-00-Austria	1349 ^JL	In 1349, after an earthquake, the Plague arrived in Austria together with flagellants. Around the feast of St John the baptist the disease was so severe that in Vienna 500 funerals were held per day. The disease spread because wells and other waters had been poisoned by the Jews who where persecuted all over the country.	A.D. 1349 incepit pestilencia scilicet post terre motum, et pestilenciam quidam prevenientes per ecclesias nudati usque ad cingulum acutis flagellis usque ad effusionem sanguinis se flagellantes decurrebant cum cantu de passione Domini, plurimos aspicientes in lacrimas commovebant. [...] Mox circa festum Iohannis baptiste facta est pestilencia qualis nunquam audita vel visa est, ita ut in civitate Wiennensi una die 500 funera haberentur, et tamen omnes rite sacramentalibus procurati per triduum et quasi dormiendo et cum magno fetore leniter decesserunt; ulcera habentes quidam circa genitalia sicca, quidam vesicas in cute. De quibus suspicati sunt quidam, Iudeos hoc in ulcionem inter christianos effecisse, quodam pulvere fontes et omnes aquas per necessarios eciam christianos infecisse; de quibus plurimi sunt exusti et in superioribus partibus omnes Iudei occisi et iugulati sunt; eciam in Chrems circa festum sancti Michahelis omnes Iudeorum domus aduste sunt, paucis Iudeis evadentibus. Quapropter dux Albertus, fautor Iudeorum, omnes adiacentes villas iussit spoliare. Iems nebulosa, ver optimus et floridus.	A.D. 1349 the pestilence began, namely after the earthquake. And before the pestilence, certain people, going through the churches naked to the waist, ran about scourging themselves with sharp whips to the shedding of blood, singing of the Passion of the Lord, moving many onlookers to tears. [...] Soon, around the feast of St John the Baptist, there arose a pestilence such as had never been heard of or seen, so that in the city of Vienna 500 funerals were held in a single day. And yet all were duly provided with the sacraments, and within three days they died gently, as if falling asleep, though with a great stench. Some had dry ulcers around the genitals; others had blisters upon the skin. Concerning this, some suspected that the Jews had brought it about among the Christians in vengeance, having infected the wells and all waters with a certain powder, even through Christians employed for this purpose. Of these, many were burned, and in the upper regions all the Jews were killed and slaughtered. Likewise in Krems, around the feast of St Michael, all the houses of the Jews were burned, only a few Jews escaping. Wherefore Duke Albert, a supporter of the Jews, ordered all the neighbouring villages to be plundered. The winter was foggy; the spring most excellent and full of blossoms.	Kalendarium Zwetlense, in: MGH SS 9, ed. Pertz (1851), pp. 689-698, 692, l. 26-40	Martin Bauch / ChatGPT 5.2
1349-00-00-Austria-01	1 January 1349 ^JL	Around New Year of 1349 flagellants appeared in Austria and they remained active until Easter, when the plague diminished. The Jews were accused to have poisoned wells and other waters.	Anno 1349 circa circumcisionem Domini usque in pascham viri 40, 60 vel 100 coadunati per ecclesias discurrentes cum flagellis se denudantes usque ad cingulum publicas egerunt penitencias, cantando de passione Domini, quatenus pestilencia que tunc in quibusdam locis prevaluerat cessaret. Incusati autem Iudei, quod fontes et aquas eciam fluentes quibusdam pulveribus toxicassent, unde in superioribus partibus undique autem iugulati, et in Chremsa adusti sunt una cum domibus eorum.	In the year 1349 from around New Year and until Easter 40, 60 or 100 assembled men spread over the churches and beat themselves naked down to the belt requesting penitence in public and singing about the passion of the Lord until the plague, which in those places prevailed, ebbed away. The Jews were accused to have poisoned wells and other waters, also flowing ones, with powders. That is why they were killed in the upper parts [of the country] and in Krems they were burned together with one of their masters.	Continuatio Zwetlensis quarta, in: MGH SS 9, ed. Pertz (1851), pp. 684-689, 685	Translation by Christian Oertel