Battle at Habelschwerdt (1745)
| date | February 14, 1745 |
|---|---|
| place | Habelschwerdt |
| output | Prussian victory |
| consequences | After the defeat, the Austrians had to evacuate the county of Glatz |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
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Franz Wenzel von Wallis (* 1696; † 1774) |
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| Troop strength | |
| approx. 8,000 | approx. 12,000 |
| losses | |
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52 dead, |
21 dead including 7 officers |
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The battle at Habelschwerdt was fought on February 14, 1745 between Prussian troops under Generals Lehwaldt and Fouqué and the Austrians under Franz Wenzel von Wallis .
history
On February 13, 1745, General Wallis received the news that the Prussians were on their way. He pulled together his troops - 8 battalions and approx. 1,000 horsemen - and positioned them on a hill between Habelschwerdt and Plomnitz , which was owned by the Counts of Valais .
The Prussian and Austrian cavalry met near Alt-Waltersdorf . The education of the Austrians was poor, which is why General Wallis estimated the number of Prussians at only 6 to 7 thousand. The Austrians spent the night on the hill.
General Lehwaldt commanded the grenadiers of regiments No. 3 and No. 11 as well as the infantry regiments No. 2 (significant losses), No. 17 , No. 20 and No. 30 (the 2nd battalion). In a stormy snowstorm, 14 Prussian battalions and two hussar regiments stormed . There was a two-hour battle in which Wallis withdrew because of the Prussian superiority. The retreat ended not far in Bohemia .
On the Prussian side, Colonel Andreas Ehrhardt von Gaudi , commander of Infantry Regiment No. 2 and father of the later major general Friedrich Wilhelm von Gaudi, fell .
literature
- Robert Ritter Rainer von Lindenbüchel: From the Peace of Passarowitz (Požarevac) 1719 to the wars against the French Revolution in 1792 , p. 249
- Christoph Gottlieb Richter: The life and state history of the most noble, most powerful princess and women, women of Maria Theresa, Queen in Hungary and Böheim, Archduchess of Austria , Volume 3, p. 351f, ( digitized version )
- A. Straehle: Lexicon of Battles, Meetings, Skirmishes, Skirmishes, Recontres, Sieges , p. 121, ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 173.
- ↑ Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great , p. 537, ( digitized ).