Niklaus Leuenberger
Niklaus Leuenberger (c. 1615 – 6 September 1653[a]) was a leader of the Swiss peasant war of 1653.
He signed the Treaty of Mellingen along with Christian Schybi on 4 June 1653.
After the defeat of the peasants at Herzogenbuchsee in the same month, he was delivered to the Bernese authorities. He was executed by decapitation and drawn and quartered on 6 September. His head was nailed to the gallows, and the four parts of his body exhibited on the four highways out Bern.
In 1903, on the 250th anniversary of his death, a monument was erected to him in the Emmental municipality of Ruderswil.
Footnotes
- a All dates are given according to the Gregorian calendar, which was already in effect in all the Catholic cantons. The Protestant cantons still followed the Julian calendar at that time.[1]
Notes
- ^ Stüssi-Lauterburg 2003, p. 20.
References
- Stüssi-Lauterburg, J.; Luginbühl, H.; Gasser, A.; Greminger, A. (2003): Verachtet Herrenpossen! Verschüchet fremde Gäst!, Verlag Merker im Effingerhof, Lenzburg; 2003. ISBN 3-85648-124-9.
External links
- Niklaus Leuenberger in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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