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Battle of Frankenhausen

The Battle of Frankenhausen was fought on 14 and 15 May 1525. It was an important battle in the German Peasants' War and the final act of the war in Thuringia: joint troops of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and Duke George of Saxony defeated the peasants under their spiritual leader Thomas Müntzer near Frankenhausen in the County of Schwarzburg.

Battle of Frankenhausen
Battle of Frankenhausen · Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1525
Where
Bad Frankenhausen
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Germany1,250 BCE – todayHoly Roman Empire955 CE – 1809

Before and after

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