Frankfurt 1659: Hakadosh Meier Trier was brutally murdered – hy”d.
Meir Trier entered the house of the Christian spice merchant Hans Wriggidburg at the spice market known as Zum Vogelgesang, carrying 550 Reichsthaler to exchange for merchandise. The moment he arrived, Wriggidburg seized him, pushed him into the cellar, and cut his throat with a knife “as one slaughters an animal,” slicing through to the back of the neck. Convinced that his victim was dead, the murderer left him there and fled.
Yet Meir still lived. With his throat cut, he dragged himself across the cellar floor until he reached an iron-grated opening facing the street. Grasping the bars, he let out a desperate cry that drew the attention of passersby and caused an uproar in the marketplace. Moses Öttingen descended into the cellar with several Christians and found him lying in his blood. Soon afterward his soul departed. Community officials Amschel Schau, Nachman, and Nachum remained by his side, and that night Captain Andres arrived with ten soldiers to escort the martyr through Frankfurt’s Judengasse to the cemetery, where he was buried among the martyrs.
Gedenkbuch der Frankfurter Juden nach Aufzeichnungen der Beerdigungs-Bruderschaf, page 346, §26
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