Battle at Haynau
Battle at Haynau
| date | May 26, 1813 |
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| place | Haynau |
| output | Victory of Prussia |
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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 Haynau on May 26, 1813 was the last military action before the armistice from June 4 to August 10, 1813.
After the lost battle at Großgörschen , Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher's troops withdrew behind the Spree . At the Battle of Bautzen one had to accept another defeat. Before the Pläswitz armistice came into effect on June 4th, there was a victorious cavalry battle in Haynau , which mainly had psychological effects. Blücher had to assert himself as the sole commander in Silesia, as the decisions of the other Allied generals did not materialize. On May 26, 1813 , Blücher fought against Nicolas-Joseph Maison in a surprise attack with Silesian and East Prussian cuirassiers. The unsatisfactory spring campaign of 1813 thus ended with a surprising and comforting victory.
Significance for contemporaries
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. had Karl Friedrich Schinkel set up small monuments in the style of Gothic tabernacles on several battlefields of the Wars of Liberation . So also in Haynau. Accordingly, in the eyes of contemporaries, this battle stood in line with the battles at Großgörschen , Großbeeren , Wartenburg , on the Katzbach , near Kulm , near Dennewitz and near Waterloo . The monument was removed by Polish pioneers in 1945.
literature
- Friedrich Karl Ferdinand Müffling: The Prussian-Russian campaign in 1813, from the opening to the armistice of June 5th, 1813 , digitized
- Frank Bauer: Haynau May 26, 1813. Blücher's excellent equestrian victory (small series History of the Wars of Liberation 1813–1815, no. 35), Potsdam 2011.
- Franz Joseph Adolph Schneidawind , Der Reiter-Kampf und Sieg bei Haynau, on May 26, 1813 , 1845, digitized
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the history of the individual Prussian national monuments see Michael Nungesser : The monument on the Kreuzberg by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Arenhövel, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-922912-19-2