Müntzer has in the past several months…

Müntzer has in the past several months found himself more and more at odds with Egranus, the local representative of the Wittenberg movement, and increasingly embroiled in riots against the local Catholic priests.

The town council has become nervous about the goings-on at St Katharine’s, and in April of 1521 at last decides that enough is enough: Müntzer is dismissed from his post and is forced to leave Zwickau.