Case file · Folklore / legend
Bishop Hatto and the Mouse Tower
Legend says Archbishop Hatto of Mainz burned starving peasants in a barn in 970 and was then eaten alive by mice in his tower on the Rhine near Bingen.
970 CE · 49.97, 7.89 · status: legend
The sceptical view
The tower was built later as a toll tower; the name may come from 'Maut' (toll).