2025400 Year Anniversary of the Frankenburg Dice Game - Set

In 1625, a bloody tribunal took place at Haushamerfeld in Frankenburg am Hausruck, an event that later became known as the Frankenburg Dice Game.

When a Catholic priest was to be installed in the predominantly Protestant community of Frankenburg, an armed uprising broke out. The Bavarian governor promised clemency if the population gave up their resistance, but he then forced the leaders to roll dice for their lives: the winners were pardoned, the losers were hanged. In the ensuing Upper Austrian Peasants’ War of 1625/26, the rebels were ultimately defeated. Since 1925, the Frankenburg Dice Game has been re- enacted as a grand historical play, based on a drama by Karl Itzinger and adapted by Franz and Michael Neudorfer. Every two years, around 1,000 amateur performers bring the story back to life on an open-air stage at the original site of the events.