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Tauffers (Sand in Taufers, Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol, Italy)Tauffers (Burg Taufers), a castle in the Puster Valley (Pustertal), formerly Tyrol, Austria and now South Tyrol, Italy, where Aendle Sackmann of Ritten, an Anabaptist woman, and Hans Kräl were put to death for their faith. Elise von Wolkenstein was long imprisoned here. BibliographyBeck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883: 280; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV. Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943: 369 ff. 
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