Caption:
The Sack of Magdeburg, Magdeburgs Opfergang, Magdeburg Wedding, refers to the siege, subsequent looting and massacre of the inhabitants of the predominantly Protestant city of Magdeburg by troops of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic League during the Thirty Years War. Johann T. Serclaes von Tilly during the Siege, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original