Around 1528, 340 people died of the plague in Peterzell. In Peterzell, Brunnadern and on the Hemberg so few people remained that they all could eat at the same table.
N. Senn, diary

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445. Pest

Um 1528 starben in Peterzell an der Pest 340 Personen. In Peterzell, Brunnadern und auf dem Hemberg blieben nur noch so viele Leute, dass alle am nämlichen Tische essen konnten.
N. Senn, Tagebuch

Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel (i.e., Dr. Beak), a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, circa 1656