Peasant Revolt in Styria

1488

Austrian peasants rose against Habsburg tax demands and landlord exactions in the mountains of Styria. The rising was suppressed with characteristic violence; its leaders were quartered in village squares as warnings. Central European peasant grievance was building toward the explosive rebellions of the 1520s. The revolt was one of dozens across the German-speaking lands, part of a pattern of rural resistance culminating in the Peasants' War of 1525.