Battle of Lucka
Monument in Lucka
| date | May 31, 1307 |
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| place | near the village of Lucka |
| output | Victory of Friedrich I. |
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The Battle of Lucka was a dispute between the Roman-German King Albrecht I of the Habsburg dynasty and the Margrave of Meissen Friedrich the Bitten and the Margrave of Lusatia Dietrich IV from the House of Wettin . It took place on May 31, 1307 , right next to the village of Lucka , which was first mentioned in 1320.
prehistory
After Friedrich Tuta's death in 1291, his cousins Friedrich and Dietrich took possession of his lands without authorization, with Friedrich receiving the margraviate of Meissen and Dietrich the Easter country . The Roman-German King Adolf von Nassau viewed these areas through the death of Tutas, who had left no children, but as a reverted fiefdom and withdrew the margraviate. In addition, in 1294 he acquired the Landgraviate of Thuringia from the father of the two brothers, Albrecht , who was in financial difficulties , probably in order to strengthen his own position by building up an - albeit small - domestic power. The brothers rose up against Adolf, so that he had to secure his acquisitions by force of arms and undertake two campaigns, as a result of which Friedrich and Dietrich had to give way. However, Adolf's death in 1298 enabled them to return to their territories.
Adolf's successor Albrecht I , however, also viewed Meissen and Thuringia as fallen fiefdoms and renewed the demand for restitution. He found support above all from the Thuringian cities that wished to become free of the empire. Albrecht was besieged by the Eisenachers at the Wartburg, but Friedrich managed to free him. A little later Albrecht invaded the Wettin areas with a large army.
The battle and the aftermath
Burgrave Friedrich of Nuremberg had the supreme command of Albrecht's troops . A part of the army consisted of the ranks of the Imperial cities of Pliceland , which were led by Friedrich IV von Schönburg - Crimmitschau , a declared opponent of the Wettins. In the course of the battle he was captured. The contingent of the Wettin brothers consisted primarily of armed citizens and farmers as well as Brunswick cavalry.
Albrecht's army suffered a complete defeat. Their victory gave Friedrich and Dietrich a respite, but it was not until Albrecht's murder the following year that the conflict over the Wettin territories temporarily ended, as the new King Henry VII initially did not interfere in the disputes; in principle, however, he stuck to the view that both territories were under the control of the crown. He denied Friedrich, who was the sole Wettin ruler after Dietrich's death and his father's renunciation of government, for a few years. An understanding was only reached at the end of 1310: Heinrich renounced his claim with regard to Thuringia and Meißen, with which Friedrich was now solemnly enfeoffed. In return, he received the support of the Wettins with regard to the Luxembourg claims in Bohemia .
Trivia
The phrase , which used to be particularly well- known in Saxony, goes back to the battle : "You will be successful, like the Swabians at Lücken", in the sense of: It will not work. Troops from Swabia seem to have made up the largest part of the imperial army, which is why the imperial army was popularly equated with the Swabians.
literature
- Melos, Johann G .: Reading book from Saxon history . Weimar 1825, p. 104-105 ( slub-dresden.de ).
- Heimatverein des Bornaer Land: "You will chuckle ...". Symposium 700 years battle near Lucka, Gnandstein Castle, June 14, 2007 , In: Heimatblätter des Bornaer Land (special issue), Borna, 2007.
- Adolf Schirmer : The battle at Lucka. A turning point in the history of the Wettins , Friedrichstanneck, 1907.
- Volker Thurm: The Battle of Lucka anno 1307 , Würchwitz, 2006.
Web links
- The battle of Lucka in the archive of the Lucka local newspaper
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.bommi2000.de/geschichte/14jh/1307/1307lucka.php
- ↑ Reiner Groß: Schönburgische Geschichte, Eine Zeittafel , editors: Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker, Chemnitz 2005, entry "March 31, 1307" in a chronologically ordered list, p. 8
- ↑ Cf. in summary Michael Menzel: The time of drafts. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 142f.
- ^ Theodor Fontane: The German War of 1866, Volume 2 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2011, page 266
- ^ Moritz Theodor Frommelt: or History, Geography and Statistics of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , Volume 1. Klinkhardt, 1838, page 55