Battle of St. Georgen
Winterthur in 1292
| date | October 1292 |
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| place | Winterthur |
| output | Habsburg victory |
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In the battle of St. Georgen in October 1292, at the gates of the city of Winterthur in Switzerland , a Habsburg army defeated a contingent of the imperial city of Zurich .
In October 1291, during the first phase of the Swiss Habsburg Wars, the immediate imperial countries Uri and Schwyz allied themselves with the imperial city of Zurich in order to oppose the efforts of the House of Habsburg to hegemonic. In December, the city of Lucerne , which had come under Habsburg rule a few months earlier, also joined this coalition against Duke Albrecht of Austria . When an army from Zurich tried to conquer the Habsburg city of Winterthur in April 1292 , it was defeated by the Habsburgs at the gates of the city near St. Georgen. The anti-Habsburg coalition then broke up.
literature
- Hans Conrad Peyer: The emergence of the Confederation. In: Handbuch der Schweizer Geschichte , Vol. 1. Report House, Zurich 1972.