Hesse Battle

of Frankenhausen - the decisive battle in the war peasant in Germany, which took place on 14-15 May 1525 n ear Frankenhausen in Thuringia. The insurgents - poorly armed pea sants turyngscy - under the leadership of the radical theologian, a leading activist anabaptyzmu, Thomas Munzer, were defeated by the army of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave Philip of Hesse. During a battle, killed about 6,000 insurgents, and about 600 captured 300 punished death on 16 May preceding the town hall in Frankenhausen.