What the records say
- When
- 1832
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 47.35° N, 8.72° E
- Description
- 1832 machine-breaking in Uster, Switzerland
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the town its title names, Uster.
Usterbrand
1832 machine-breaking in Uster
The Usterbrand was the most significant case of machine-breaking in Switzerland. On 22 November 1832, the day of the commemoration of the Ustertag of 1830, an angry crowd destroyed the mechanical spinning and weaving mill of Corrodi & Pfister in Oberuster, in Uster.
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