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Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the 1096 German crusading bands that massacred substantial Jewish communities in the Rhineland on the way east. His army was destroyed by King Coloman of Hungary in three engagements that summer. Emicho survived and returned home in disgrace, where he reportedly went mad.
Read the story →Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the unofficial German crusading armies of 1096. He conducted the substantial Mainz and Worms massacres in May and June, then marched east toward the Holy Land. The Hungarian king Coloman destroyed his army at the Wieselburg bridge in late June. Emicho himself returned home in disgrace.
Read the story →The Worms synagogue was first built in 1034. It was destroyed by Count Emicho's army in 1096, by the Black Death mob in 1349, and by the Nazis on Kristallnacht in 1938. It was rebuilt each time, most recently in 1961. It is the longest continuously rebuilt religious building in central Europe.
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