In Germany there had already been massacres stirred up by local demagogues: the Roettingen "Knight Rindfleisch," the Rintfleisch massacres (1298), and the innkeeper-knight Arnold von Uissigheim König Armleder ("King Leatherarm") of the Armleder massacres (1336–38).
In medieval times it was a village home to the Uissigheim family, of whom the most infamous member was the highwayman and persecutor of the Jews Arnold von Uissigheim (executed 1336).
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