!!!Frankenburger Würfelspiel

Frankenburger Wuerfelspiel ("Frankenburg Dice Game"): When Protestant 
peasants besieged Frankenburg Castle in May 1625 to protest the 
appointment of a Catholic priest, Count  Herberstorff called on the 
town residents to assemble in the Haushamer Feld plain and despite his 
promise of amnesty, had the town leaders and committee members 
arrested and allowed two members of each group to gamble with dice for 
their lives. Seventeen peasants were hanged. This illegal act 
triggered the great Upper Austrian peasants' revolt of 1625/1626. In 
remembrance of the event, a festival has been held every other year 
since 1925 near Leitrachstaetten.  Peasants' Revolts.


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