Battle at the Nettelnburg lock
Spring campaign 1813
Lüneburg - Möckern - Halle - Großgörschen - Gersdorf - Bautzen - Reichenbach - Nettelnburg - Haynau - Luckau
Autumn campaign 1813
Großbeeren - Katzbach - Dresden - Hagelberg - Kulm - Dennewitz - Göhrde - Altenburg - Wittenberg - Wartenburg - Liebertwolkwitz - Leipzig - Torgau - Hanau - Hochheim - Danzig
Winter campaign 1814
Épinal - Colombey - Brienne - La Rothière - Champaubert - Montmirail - Château-Thierry - Vauchamps - Mormant - Montereau - Bar-sur-Aube - Soissons - Craonne - Laon - Reims - Arcis-sur-Aube - Fère-Champenoise - Saint -Dizier - Claye - Villeparisis - Paris
Summer campaign of 1815
Quatre-Bras - Ligny - Waterloo - Wavre - Paris
The battle at the Nettelnburg lock took place during the Wars of Liberation on 28/30. May 1813 in the Hamburg suburbs of Nettelnburg and Ochsenwerder , when a Prussian battalion thwarted the attack of the French by stabbing the Bille to the Dove Elbe on the Prussian-Russian troops moving out of Bergedorf.
course
The French had advanced on May 28 with advance units from their base near Wilhelmsburg on Nettelnburg in order to threaten and encompass the Prussian-Russian troops under General Tettenborn who had advanced on Bergedorf in the flank and rear.
While Tettenborn, who was already negotiating a non-fighting withdrawal from Hamburg with the opposing Danes, did nothing to counter the threat, a fusilier battalion of the Prussian grenadier regiment King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV. (1st Pomeranian) No. 2 , located near Lüneburg , hurried under approached the command of Lieutenant Colonel Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke and took up positions near Nettelnburg.
When Tettenborn's troops moved from Bergedorf over the Billerdeich to Lauenburg on May 30, 1813 , advancing French troops under Marshal Davout attacked, and they had to cross over the Dove Elbe, an approximately 10 meter wide tributary of the Elbe . Lieutenant Colonel von Borcke, who also withdrew with his troops according to orders, recognized the intention to attack in good time, moved into hidden positions with a strong rearguard , and with a bayonet attack surprised the French units that were not yet ready for action in the impassable and partially flooded marshland , destroyed by the result Panic their attack and thus secured the retreat of the Russian-Prussian units. The French lost about 400 men, the Prussians only five.
literature
- Crome, Friedrich Gottlieb: Letters about Hamburg and its surroundings fates during the years 1813 and 1814 , written by an eyewitness. Sommer: Descriptions, Views and Memories, Volume 1, Brockhaus Verlag 1815, p. 4ff
- Gerrit A. Menzel: Battle at the Nettelnburg lock . In: Lichtwark booklet No. 72. Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2007. ISSN 1862-3549 .
- Anton von Mach, History of the Royal Prussian Second Infantry Genant King Regiment from its foundation in 1677 until December 3, 1840 , p.227f Battle at the Nettelnburg lock on May 30, 1813
Location
The former Nettelnburg lock was located at the southern end of the (old) lock ditch, between today's houses at Kurfürstendeich number 41 and number 34.