Herbstpanaorama vom Handlberg, mit Sicht zum Markt Aidenbach, Landkreis Passau (Niederbayern) Hier oben auf dem Handlberg befindet sich ein Denkmal und eine Schrifttafel aus einer finsteren Zeit, um das 17.Jahrhundert, die „Schlacht von Aidenbach".
Autumn panorama from the Handlberg, with a view of the market town of Aidenbach, district of Passau (Lower Bavaria) Up here on the Handlberg there is a memorial and an inscription from a dark time, around the 17th century, the "Battle of Aidenbach".
Monument Handlberg (Markt Aidenbach)
Erected in 1866 to commemorate the more than 3,000 local farmers and craftsmen from Vils, Rott and Inntal
and servants who died around January 8, 1706 in the "Battle of Aidenbach" by the Imperial-Austrian
occupying forces have been mercilessly massacred on these surrounding hills and valleys.
The massacre of Aidenbach began on Christmas Day 1705 in the "Sendlinger Murder Christmas" (Munich)
the defeat of the Oberländer (Upper Bavarian peasants) by the Austrians.
Both disputes belong to the so-called War of the Spanish Succession, which took place between 1701 and 1714
around the vacant Spanish royal throne between the ruling houses of Bavaria and France on the one hand
and Austria and England on the other hand. After the Battle of Höchstädt (near Ingolstadt)
in August 1704, in which the combined army of Bavaria and France was defeated by the Austrian alliance,
Austria set up a brutal occupying regime in Bavaria. With shameful oppression,
ruthless forced recruitment and oppressive tax burdens one has
the native population of old Bavaria gagged in an intolerable way.
These people suffered the worst humiliation, namely the disregard for their dignity and freedom
by a hated foreign rule. So it finally came in 1705/1706 to a popular uprising
Bavarian country dwellers near Sendling and Aidenbach, to a life-and-death struggle.
Here on the hills on and around the Handlberg almost exclusively with scythes, flails and
Iron hedgehogs armed peasants on January 8, 1706 under General von Kriechbaum from Egglham
Imperial-Austrian army advancing in precise military formation.
When the peasants were abandoned by their military leader in the face of the armed superiority,
chaos ensued. The Lower Bavarians were now completely at the mercy of the enemy's brutality.
According to the chroniclers, the slaughter, in which the fleeing farmers died, lasted from midday to evening
have been cut down mercilessly.
An hour's walk away, corpses covered the fields and meadows around Aidenbach.
Well over 3,000 of the approximately 7,000 rebellious farmers fell.
Most of them were buried in mass graves on the heights around the market town of Aidenbach.
Herbstpanaorama vom Handlberg, mit Sicht zum Markt Aidenbach, Landkreis Passau (Niederbayern) Hier oben auf dem Handlberg befindet sich ein Denkmal und eine Schrifttafel aus einer finsteren Zeit, um das 17.Jahrhundert, die „Schlacht von Aidenbach".
Autumn panorama from the Handlberg, with a view of the market town of Aidenbach, district of Passau (Lower Bavaria) Up here on the Handlberg there is a memorial and an inscription from a dark time, around the 17th century, the "Battle of Aidenbach".
Monument Handlberg (Markt Aidenbach)
Erected in 1866 to commemorate the more than 3,000 local farmers and craftsmen from Vils, Rott and Inntal
and servants who died around January 8, 1706 in the "Battle of Aidenbach" by the Imperial-Austrian
occupying forces have been mercilessly massacred on these surrounding hills and valleys.
The massacre of Aidenbach began on Christmas Day 1705 in the "Sendlinger Murder Christmas" (Munich)
the defeat of the Oberländer (Upper Bavarian peasants) by the Austrians.
Both disputes belong to the so-called War of the Spanish Succession, which took place between 1701 and 1714
around the vacant Spanish royal throne between the ruling houses of Bavaria and France on the one hand
and Austria and England on the other hand. After the Battle of Höchstädt (near Ingolstadt)
in August 1704, in which the combined army of Bavaria and France was defeated by the Austrian alliance,
Austria set up a brutal occupying regime in Bavaria. With shameful oppression,
ruthless forced recruitment and oppressive tax burdens one has
the native population of old Bavaria gagged in an intolerable way.
These people suffered the worst humiliation, namely the disregard for their dignity and freedom
by a hated foreign rule. So it finally came in 1705/1706 to a popular uprising
Bavarian country dwellers near Sendling and Aidenbach, to a life-and-death struggle.
Here on the hills on and around the Handlberg almost exclusively with scythes, flails and
Iron hedgehogs armed peasants on January 8, 1706 under General von Kriechbaum from Egglham
Imperial-Austrian army advancing in precise military formation.
When the peasants were abandoned by their military leader in the face of the armed superiority,
chaos ensued. The Lower Bavarians were now completely at the mercy of the enemy's brutality.
According to the chroniclers, the slaughter, in which the fleeing farmers died, lasted from midday to evening
have been cut down mercilessly.
An hour's walk away, corpses covered the fields and meadows around Aidenbach.
Well over 3,000 of the approximately 7,000 rebellious farmers fell.
Most of them were buried in mass graves on the heights around the market town of Aidenbach.