Battle of Párkány
| date | October 7-9, 1683 |
|---|---|
| place | Párkány , Slovakia |
| output | Imperial victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 30,000 | 40,000 |
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The Battle of Párkány was a military conflict from October 7th to 9th, 1683 between the armies of the allied Poland-Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire with that of the Ottoman Empire during the Great Turkish War (1683–1699). The battle near today's town of Štúrovo (Párkány) ended after the initial successes of the Ottoman troops with their defeat.
course
The war began in 1683 with an offensive by the Ottoman army against Vienna (→ Second Siege of the Turks ). After this was defeated in the Battle of Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683, the combined German-Polish army began a counter-offensive with the conquest of Hungary . Initially, the Polish King John III persecuted . Sobieski and his Polish regiments from September 18, 1683, defeated the Ottoman troops. On October 7th, the advance guard of the Polish army (approx. 2,000 men) was ambushed by the Ottomans, who numbered around 40,000 men, near the Turkish fortress Gran , and were almost completely wiped out. Part of the main Polish contingent (approx. 4,000 Hussaria men ) under the leadership of King Sobieski was attacked and put to flight. The king himself was in mortal danger and was thought to be dead at times.
The following day, more troops under Charles of Lorraine came onto the battlefield. On October 9, Sobieski rearranged the troops that had now arrived in full and the Allies attacked the Ottoman units again. The Ottomans had also drawn together contingents in the meantime, so that the 30,000 of the alliance faced around 40,000 Ottoman fighters.
The result of the battle was a crushing defeat for the Ottomans, from which only about 800 Ottoman soldiers escaped. On the same day the city of Gran was stormed by imperial troops under the Margrave of Baden .
literature
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : The Turkish Wars in the Mirror of Saxon Biographies . Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, Herne 2019, ISBN 978-3-944487-63-2 , p. 101.
- Max von Turek: Turkish Wars of the Austrians. In: Bernhard von Poten (Ed.): Concise dictionary of the entire military sciences. Volume 9, Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig / Bielfeld 1880, pp. 187–198.
- Paul Wentzcke: General of the emperor - life and deeds Duke Charles V of Lorraine. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1943.
- Joachim Zeller: Jan Sobieski - Letters to the Queen. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1973.
