First Margrave War
Site plan of the Pillenreuther Weiher, 1450
| date | 1449 to June 22, 1450 |
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| place | Middle Franconia |
| output | Surrender of the territories conquered by Albrecht |
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The First Margrave War (1449–1450) arose out of a dispute between Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the imperial city of Nuremberg . Albrecht, son of Friedrich VI. , Property that had previously belonged to his family. A direct attack on Nuremberg Fortress with 7,000 men was unsuccessful, but numerous places around Nuremberg were badly affected during the war . The pillage and extensive devastation of entire towns was part of the strategy of this war.
On August 13, 1449 Albrecht conquered the Nurembergers belonging festivals Lichtenau . He emerged victorious from eight skirmishes against Nuremberg troops. On March 11, 1450, however, Albrecht lost a battle at the pond of the Pillenreuth monastery against a Nuremberg army under the leadership of Heinrich Reuss von Plauen . Albrecht had announced with confidence that he wanted to fish at this pond to provoke Nuremberg. The size of the army dispatched to it with 800 riders and additional infantry surprised him, but despite the shortage of his troops he initially remained certain of victory. Kunz von Kauffungen , who had commanded a party of crossbowmen, finally turned Albrecht on after a lost battle. The war ended with a peace treaty that was signed on June 22nd, 1450 in Bamberg . In it Albrecht had to return all conquered territories to the city of Nuremberg.
This war against Nuremberg was the core of a larger conflict: 31 imperial cities allied themselves against an alliance of mainly Upper German princes and fought against each other in a partially coordinated manner in a war that spanned almost all of southern Germany from the Rhine to Saxony “in the turmoil of the conflicts between Princes and Cities ”moved. This war later became known as the Second (South German) City War.
The Second Margrave War developed directly from the prince uprising in 1552.
See also
literature
- Johannes Müllner: The Annals of the Imperial City of Nuremberg from 1623, Part II: From 1351-1469 . Nuremberg 1972. pp. 409-482.
- Gabriel Zeilinger: Life Forms in War. A history of everyday life and experience of the southern German city war 1449/50 (quarterly for social and economic history, supplements, no.196), Stuttgart 2007.