In the Lower Bavarian market town of Aidenbach, a festival commemorates the peasant battle of 1706. Their wounds have not healed to this day. The carnage is a lesson in Bavarian history that should not be forgotten.
In the course of the world there are always traumatic events, the consequences of which are still noticeable centuries later. In Bavaria, the War of the Spanish Succession more than 300 years ago inflicted wounds that have not completely healed to this day. This applies in particular to the Lower Bavarian market town of Aidenbach, where in January 1706 a peasant uprising was so brutally massacred by the Austrian occupying forces “that I get goosebumps every time I celebrate the annual commemoration on January 8th,” as Mayor Karl Obermeier said at a meeting at the battle memorial confesses.