The Landsberg register preserves families murdered during the 1298 persecutions and singles out four people killed a parasang from the fortress. It also remembers Jehiel the priest for publicly sanctifying the Name.1 TJD assigns 5058 following the scholarly placement before late August; no month or day is selected.

The wider chronology follows the persecution beyond this register. These memorial names preserve Jewish households; they do not identify every perpetrator or establish Rintfleisch’s personal presence.

What does the complete
memorial register preserve?

The complete surviving applicable register follows from Siegmund Salfeld’s 1898 edition of the Nürnberger Memorbuch. Each עברית IVRIT passage is followed by a TJD English translation checked against the printed facsimile and Salfeld’s German rendering. This normalized reading transcription omits printed wrapping, pointing and note numbers and normalizes abbreviation punctuation. It retains names, order, unnamed relatives, gaps and material additions. English explanatory brackets are TJD’s. R. preserves an honorific without assuming rabbinic ordination; Mistress renders the respectful title for women. Vernacular names sometimes admit more than one reading.

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

הרוגי לנדשבורק:

ר׳ יואל (הלוי) הזקן. ר׳ יצחק בר נחמני ואשתו מרת חנה ובניו. והנער יצחק בן הקדוש ר׳ נתן. והבחור ר׳ נחמני בר יצחק ואשתו מרת מינא. ר׳ אשר בן הקדוש ר׳ סעדיה ואשתו ובניו. ומרת ברונא האלמנה ובתה (מרת יוטא ובתה) אדלהייט הנערה וג׳ בניה. והבחור ר׳ אשר בר יחיאל הכהן. ור׳ ברמן (ואשתו ובניו). ור׳ נתן בר יהודה ואחיו ר׳ מרדכי. ור׳ יהונתן בר יהונתן. ושלמה בר אברהם. אותן ד׳ נהרגו פרסה מן המבצר. ור׳ יחיאל הכהן אשר קדש השם בפרהסיא. ומרת ורודא ובניה. ומרת מושט:2

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

Those killed at Landsberg:

R. Joel (the Levite), the elder. R. Isaac son of Nahmani, his wife Mistress Hannah and his children. The boy Isaac, son of the martyr R. Nathan. The young man R. Nahmani son of Isaac and his wife Mistress Minna. R. Asher, son of the martyr R. Saadiah, and his wife and children. Mistress Bruna the widow and her daughter (Mistress Jutta and her daughter) Adelheit, the young girl, and her three sons [Salfeld understands: Jutta’s]. The young man R. Asher son of Jehiel the priest. R. Berman (and his wife and children). R. Nathan son of Judah and his brother R. Mordecai. R. Jonathan son of Jonathan. Solomon son of Abraham. Those four were killed a parasang from the fortress. R. Jehiel the priest, who sanctified the Name publicly. Mistress Froda and her children. Mistress Mosette.3

What does the list establish?

The four are Nathan son of Judah, his brother Mordecai, Jonathan son of Jonathan and Solomon son of Abraham. Their separate location prevents the whole entry from being treated as one killing inside a fortress. Later additions preserve Joel’s Levite designation, Jutta and her daughter within Bruna’s family, and Berman’s wife and children. Salfeld understands the three sons in the layered Bruna–Jutta passage as Jutta’s; the translation labels that interpretation. The Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte identifies this 1298 community as Landsberg am Lech.4

Salfeld records a difficulty in matching the Hebrew place spelling to documentary forms:

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

Unsere La. ist urkundlich nicht zu belegen, nur für Hoh-Landsberg im els. Kr. Kolmar erscheint 1310 Lantzburg.5

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

Our reading cannot be documented in charters; only for Hoh-Landsberg in the Alsatian district of Colmar does “Lantzburg” appear in 1310.6

This is a caution about the recorded spelling. Salfeld labels the locality as Bavarian; modern institutional scholarship identifies Landsberg am Lech. The reference to Hoh-Landsberg does not itself move the massacre to Alsace.7

How is this dated?

The 1898 edition of the Nuremberg Memorbuch names the Landsberg victims but gives no month or day for their deaths. Salfeld’s note also says that entries in this part of the memorial list are undated.8

Historian Alfred Haverkamp places the attack on Landsberg before an Augsburg agreement dated 23 August 1298. The agreement records the Jewish community’s thanks for the city’s protection; it does not name the Landsberg victims. Its own date is given as the eve of St. Bartholomew, which the Bavarian history edition renders as 23 August. Haverkamp’s prose also gives 23 August, though a figure caption in his chapter says 28 August. Both dates are before 1 Tishrei 5059. Reading the medieval date as Julian, 23 August corresponds to 14 Elul 5058, so the difference does not change the Hebrew year. Haverkamp’s account supplies the link between the regional persecutions and the agreement. This supports 5058, but not a month or day for the Landsberg killings. The Bavarian history reference also dates the attack to 1298, while later violence elsewhere does not establish a competing date for this community.9101112

Guided reflections

  • How does the notice of four deaths outside the fortress change the geography of the memorial register?
  • Whose remembrance would be lost if later additions to Bruna’s and Berman’s households were discarded?

Footnotes

  1. Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, Hebrew p. 38; German pp. 182–183 ↩
  2. Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, Hebrew p. 38; German pp. 182–183 ↩
  3. Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, Hebrew p. 38; German pp. 182–183; TJD translation ↩
  4. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Landsberg am Lech (Gemeinde), ↩
  5. Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, German p. 183 ↩
  6. Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, German p. 183; TJD translation ↩
  7. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Landsberg am Lech (Gemeinde), ↩
  8. Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, Hebrew p. 38; German pp. 181–183 ↩
  9. Haverkamp, Kammerknechtschaft, pp. 36–37, including fig. 2 ↩
  10. Augsburg agreement, 23 August 1298, archival reference and document text ↩
  11. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Landsberg am Lech (Gemeinde), ↩
  12. Lotter, Rintfleisch-Verfolgung, 1298, ↩

Works cited

  1. Salfeld, Siegmund. Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches. Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, vol. 3, Berlin, 1898. Rockenhausen entry, pp. 144–145; Pforzheim entry and date analysis, pp. 128–130; Munich entry, p. 21; Nuremberg entry and victim list, pp. 170–180; Rothenburg entry and victim list, pp. 185–190; Weissensee entry and victim list, pp. 215–217; place lists, pp. 231–235; related elegy, pp. 332–334. https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/535. Accessed 2026 Aug. 27.
  2. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte. Landsberg am Lech (Gemeinde). Jüdisches Leben in Bayern. https://hdbg.eu/juedisches_leben/gemeinde/landsberg-am-lech/1275. Accessed 2026 Sep. 7.
  3. Haverkamp, Alfred. „Kammerknechtschaft“ und „Bürgerstatus“ der Juden diesseits und jenseits der Alpen während des späten Mittelalters. In Die Juden in Schwaben, edited by Michael Brenner and Sabine Ullmann, 11–40. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1524/9783486715132.11. Relevant passage, pp. 36–37, consulted in online chapter text; the hosting mirror mislabels the volume as Hilfe für Juden in München. Author, chapter, pagination and volume verified against publisher metadata. Accessed 2026 Sept. 7.
  4. Jewish community and city of Augsburg. Agreement of 23 August 1298, Stadtarchiv Augsburg, Reichsstadt, Urkundensammlung, 00471-AUS-1298. Modern German presentation by Augustin Renner OSB, 1298: Bau des „Judenwalls“ in Augsburg. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Jüdisches Leben in Bayern. https://hdbg.eu/juedisches_leben/quellen-mittelalter/1298:%20Bau%20des%20%22Judenwalls%22%20in%20Au. Accessed 2026 Sept. 7. Original parchment not inspected.
  5. Lotter, Friedrich. Rintfleisch-Verfolgung, 1298. Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, published 26 Oct. 2009. https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Rintfleisch-Verfolgung%2C_1298. Accessed 2026 Aug. 21.