Bauernkriegs-historian Wilhelm Zimmermann: "Freedom must be on earth"

On 26 April 1525, the Peasant War came to Stuttgart: The "Helle christian heap" reached the capital of the Duchy of Württemberg, which joined the 6,000 insurgent peasants, while the government fled to Tübingen. Even several members of the city's leadership, such as the painter Jerg Ratgeb, supported the movement. Particularly clear, however, was the sympathy among the citizens of the low standing Leonhardsvorstadt, which was inhabited by craftsm…