Massacre of Jews in Mainz

Date: August 24, 1349 • Location: Mainz, Germany

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.

Mainz is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region — Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr and Berlin-Brandenburg — which also encompasses the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Offenbach am Main, and Hanau.