The Bundschuh movement was a loosely linked series of localized peasant rebellions in southwestern Germany

Germany

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. It played an important part in the German Peasants' War

German Peasants' War

The German Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt was a widespread popular revolt in the German-speaking areas of Central Europe, 1524–1526. At its height in the spring and summer of 1525, the conflict involved an estimated 300,000 peasants: contemporary estimates put the dead at 100,000...

 of the early 15th and 16th centuries. It was so called because of the peasant shoe (Bundschuh = tied shoe) the peasants displayed on their flag – symbolizing the rising and advance of the peasants. Under this flag, peasants and city dwellers had defeated the troops of the French count of Armagnac

Count of Armagnac

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 along the upper Rhine in 1439, 1443 and 1444.

Individual uprisings – seeking relief from oppressive taxes, arbitrary justice systems, high debts, costly ecclesiastic privileges, serf

SERF

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dom, prohibitions on hunting and fishing, and the like – occurred in 1476 in Niklashausen (Tauber

Tauber

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 valley), 1493 in Sélestat

Sélestat

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/Alsace

Alsace

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 (for the first time under the Bundschuh banner), 1502 in Bruchsal

Bruchsal

Bruchsal is a city at the western edge of the Kraichgau, approximately 20 km northeast of Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany...

 and Untergrombach, 1513 in Lehen (Breisgau

Breisgau

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), and 1517 along the upper Rhine. Each of these was defeated very quickly, and the leaders were generally executed.