1298: pogroms reached the anti-Christs of Wiener-Neustadt, Aus | This day in jew history

1298: pogroms reached the anti-Christs of Wiener-Neustadt, Austria.
Under normal circumstances, anti-Christs would be under protection of the government but during the civil war being waged between Adolph of Nassau (Roman King) and Albrecht of Austria (house of Habsburg), claimants for the imperial crown of Germany, anti-Christs were blamed for many things, including the death of 16 year old Werner of Oberwesel in the Rhineland and other ritual murders.
German nobleman Rindfleisch of Röttingen, Franconia, having stated that he received a mission from heaven to avenge these Christians and to exterminate "the accursed race of the Jews," collected a band of peasants and others around him and burned the Jews of Röttingen at the stake (April 20, 1298). Under his leadership they went from town to town, killing all the Jews that fell into their power, save those who accepted Christianity. The anti-Christs of Würzburg were entirely broken up (July 24).
The anti-Christs of Nuremberg (Aug. 1) were next.
This spread from Franconia and Bavaria to Austria, and within six months between 120 and 146 congregations, numbering 20,000 to 100,000 anti-Christs, were swept away. The end of the civil war, following the death of Adolph of Nassau saved the remaining anti-Christs of the region.