The first act of the thirteen hundred…
March 1616 CE
The first act of the thirteen hundred and eight returning Jews is to restore the desecrated synagogue and devastated cemetery to religious use. A stone Imperial Eagle is added above the gates to Frankfurt’s Judengasse with an inscription reading “Protected by the Roman Imperial Majesty and the Holy Empire.”
To commemorate their salvation from destruction Frankfurt's Jews celebrate a special feast, the Purim Vinz, after Fettmilch's first name.
The Purim-Kaddisch includes a merry march which remembers the joyful return.
However, the Jews are never to receive the promised compensation for their losses.
The Fettmilch Rebellion is to be one of the last pogroms in Germany, until the rise of the National Socialists.
The rebellion is also remarkable, as for the first time most Christian commentators had supported the Jewish community in this dispute.