Carinthian peasant revolt

The Carinthian peasant revolt was a peasant uprising in Carinthia / Austria in the year 1478. The under the Turkish threat ( Ottomans ) and high Rüststeuern suffering peasants joined the Carinthian farmer federation under the leadership of Peter Wunderlich together. The peasants rebelled not only against the authorities, but presented themselves to the Turkish cavalry counter.

In the years 1473-1483 there were five Turkish invasions in Carinthia. Because the farmers at the inaction of their masters did not want to see exposed defenseless further attacks, they organized themselves into a Carinthian farmer federation under the leadership of Peter Wunderlich. At the foundation of this covenant in 1478 to Spittal an der Drau in the reign Ortenbourg wrote the chronicler Jakob Unrest: "Do you pay after Christ gepurt 1478 mod Candlemas made ​​the Pawren pey the Traa at a hospital Pundt. Sy made ​​Irish punt in short days grosz and ye long, depending grozer and weyter - dersleb Pundt wuch in kurtz as ain klains water from ainem groszen Wolckenpruch " The Farmers' Federation was when the Turks on June 25 of the year 1478 on the Predil for the third time invaded, mobilized on the " Goggauer meadow " at Coccau near Tarvisio in the Val Canale 3000 Armed. Given the oncoming riders but took a large part of the flight, so that the remaining approximately 600 men were overpowered in a short time. The Turks was thus Carinthia open and they plundered far up to Upper Carinthia. The St. Georg Ritter did not leave the removed to the fortress pin Millstatt safety's sake, while the surrounding area was devastated. Subsequently, the peasant uprising was put down, Peter Wunderlich passed at Gmünd and executed when Litzlhof at Lendorf on Lurnfeld by quartering cruel.

Wunderlich is thought, each with a Peter Wunderlich in Klagenfurt ⊙ ⊙ 46.80295313.490727 46.63379114.352819 and Spittal.