Battle near Hainholz

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Battle of Hainholz in 1632
date July 23, 1632
place Sandberg and Bonehauerkamp before Hainholz near Hanover
output Hanoverian citizens were able to save their previously stolen cattle
Parties to the conflict

Imperial troops

Protestant Hanoverians

Commander

Count Gronsfeld

losses

21 dead Hanoverians and numerous wounded

The battle near Hainholz in 1632 outside Hanover was a battle in the Thirty Years' War in which 21 Hanoverian citizens died.

history

The Kniehauer field northeast of the old town churchyard ;
Plan of Hanover (detail) by August Papen , around 1830

In the middle of the Thirty Years' War, Count Gronsfeld of the Catholic League decided to take his troops by surprise from the city of Neustadt am Rübenberge into Hanover. To do this, he had it stored near Hainholz outside of the sight of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover in order to wait for the city ​​gates to open early in the morning .

But four of Gronsfeld's dragoons arbitrarily stole a number of horses and sheep in the vicinity of the chapel at the old St. Nikolai cemetery in front of the stone gate . This was noticed by the town's cowherd who drove his cows back behind the town wall and called for help. However , based on the cowherd's description, the rushed citizens assumed that they would only face a few robbers if they were to recapture the stolen cattle. So they made a sortie and hurried after the four dragoons without much precaution. In this way the Hanoverians were able to save their cattle, but during the persecution they were ambushed by eight Kornetten "horsemen and a flag dragoon" between what was then Sandberg and Hainholz there, however, surrounded by the partisans . Numerous Hanoverians were injured, twenty-one of them died.

Plaque

David Meier, pastor of the Marktkirche, had a memorial plaque installed in the church's tower hall. This upright rectangular wooden panel (height 127.5 cm, width 87.5) is now in the Bödeckersaal under the church. A central field lists the dead with their age. The frame, on which there are more inscriptions, was apparently revised later.

The top of the frame says: M [AGISTER] () DAV [ID] M [EIER] POSUIT, “Magister David Meier had (the plaque) attached.”. Under the plaque was a Latin inscription, which is lost today: IN · PATRIA · PARVI · SED · IN · ARMIS · MAGNA · VIRVM · VIS · “In the fatherland they were little people, but in arms the violence of men was great. “The following list of names numbers the fallen and their ages. Below the list is the date of death: Anno Christi 1632: T [ie] 23 Iulij / OCCUBUERUNT, "In the year of Christ 1632, on July 23rd they died."

No. Surname Age
1 HEINRICUS HOLSTEIN 36
2 CASPAR SHOWS 28
3 HEIZO MEELBAUM 36
4th ALBERT MOGELKEN 33
5 HERMAN PAXMANN 23
6th DIETRICH DIETRICHS 45
7th CHRISTIAN SCHEFFER 50
8th REINHART SOKELANT 37
9 STATZ HEMMINCK 56
10 HANS RICHERS 40
11 ANDREAS FROMELING 50
12 HANS SUPPRIAN 38
13 IURGEN BOW 37
14th ALBERT FROMELING 26th
15th GERHART BRAUNS 40
16 TONNIES GRAMBART 27
17th MICHAEL ABELMAN 27
18th TIELE CREPE 34
19th HANS SCHOMAN 29
20th IOBST ROLEFES 26th
21st HERMAN BEER 33

literature

  • Daniel Eberhard Baring : Preface. Of famous memorials, especially those that are in and around Hanover , in this: Addendum to the Hanoverian Church and School Historia explained with some documents and a preface of famous memorials, especially those that are in and around Hanover , accompanied, in two parts , Hanover: Nicolai Försters and Sohns Erben, 1748; Digitized from the ash book of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library (HAAB)
  • Otto Juergens : [1632 attack hannov. Citizens at Nikolai-Kirchhofe] , in ders .: Hannoversche Chronik (= publications on Lower Saxony history , Volume 6), on behalf of the Association for the History of the City of Hanover, ed. by O. Jürgens, Hanover: Verlag von Ernst Geibel, 1907, pp. 503–507; Digitized by the University of Rostock
  • Hermann Schmidt: The city of Hanover in the Thirty Years' War 1626–1648 , continuation of the first part from 1895, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch. New episode of the "Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony" , organ of the historical association for Lower Saxony (in Hanover), the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, the museum association for the Principality of Lüneburg and the associations for the history of the city of Einbeck and the city of Güttingen, ed. from the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen, Volume 3: Hildesheim: Verlagbuchhandlung August Lax, 1926, pp. 95–135; here v. a. P. 112f .; Digitization of the entire volume and preview via Google Books
  • Sabine Wehking : The inscriptions of the city of Hanover ( The German inscriptions . Volume 36). Reichert Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-88226-551-4 . No. 301. ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Franz Hinrich Hesse : 135: memorial plaque for the battle near Hainholz , as well as No. 229: Frommling'scher tombstone , in this: Guide through Hanover city and country. Local landmarks. A companion on hikes through the city of Hanover and the surrounding area. Compiled and described according to location, origin, importance, etc. , Hannover: Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1929, pp. 25, 43
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g R. Hartmann : History of the royal city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , (revised reprint of the original edition from 1880), Barsinghausen: Unicum Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0308- 4 , p. 159; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Sabine Wehking: The inscriptions of the city of Hanover , No. 301.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '55 "  N , 9 ° 43' 48"  E