 In the decades following the peasant war the city authorities tried to suppress the memory of this nearly successful revolt.Resistance symbols like the flags or the weapons used by the peasants, in particular their typical clubs with nails on the hitting end (called "(Bauern-) Knüttel"), were outlawed, confiscated, and destroyed.Documents such as the "Bundesbriefe" of Huttwil were stashed away in the vaults of the city archives.