[2] The region of the young Anabaptist movement was confined at this point in time to Switzerland, Alsace, Moravia and Tyrol.
Their size accounts for their ability to host 60 participants in a single meeting room and offer accommodations for the visitors.
[citation needed] Hut had prophesied that in 1528, three and a half years after the German Peasants' War, the Kingdom of God would come, sinners would be punished and authorities exterminated.
Participants at the Synod agreed that Jesus Christ's return was imminent, but rejected Hut's calculations and his indication of specific dates and times with references to relevant Bible verses.
After a long discussion, Hut did not recant his views, but did promise to no longer openly teach them, but instead to only share them privately.
Hans Hut was tortured horribly, and accidentally died as a result of a fire which caused his asphyxiation in the Augsburg prison on 6 December 1527.
After Augsburg, the Anabaptist continued to be persecuted for more than a hundred years, eventually leading to mass emigrations to North America.