Sendling's night of murder

Sendling's night of murder
Sendlinger Mordweihnacht Part of Bavarian uprising
Depiction of Sendling's night of murder from a fresco by Wilhelm Lindenschmit
Date	25 December 1705
Location	Sendling, Electorate of Bavaria
Caused by	Occupation of Munich in contravention of the Treaty of Ilbesheim
Parties
Bavarian peasantry Army of the Holy Roman Empire
Lead figures
Joseph I
Casualties and losses
1,100 40

Sendling's Christmas (night) of murder (German: Sendlinger Mordweihnacht) was a massacre in 1705 in Sendling, then 2 km south west of Munich. An army of peasants, protesting the Austrian regime during the Bavarian People's Uprising, had marched on Munich, but was betrayed from within and massacred. Some 1,100 peasants were killed.

This event has been a well-known cultural motif in German culture.

Sources

• Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps Volume 349 of Frommer's Complete Frommer's Series. Frommer's, 2007. ISBN 0-470-10090-7, ISBN 978-0-470-10090-5