Battles near Uettingen
| date | 25. bis 26. July 1866 |
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| place | Uettingen , Bavaria |
| output | Victory of the Prussians |
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| Troop strength | |
| unknown | unknown |
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Main Campaign in 1866
The battles near Uettingen are a series of battles during the German War on July 25th and 26th, 1866, which were fought between Prussia and the German Federal Army , consisting of southern German and Austrian troops.
On the plateau between Tauber and Main , the federal troops were pushed back again on July 25th and 26th in a series of single, long swaying battles around Uettingen , Helmstadt and Roßbrunn . After the Prussian bombardment of the Bavarian troops in the Marienberg fortress near Würzburg the next day, a local ceasefire was concluded, which was followed on August 2nd by the general armistice.
Participating Bavarian associations
On the Bavarian side, the following were involved in the fighting:
- 5th Jäger Battalion,
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 11th (infantry) regiment,
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 15th (Infantry) Regiment,
- 1st Jäger Battalion,
- 1st and 3rd Battalion of the 6th Regiment,
- 1st and 2nd battalion of the 14th regiment,
- 1st Battalion of the 8th Regiment,
- 2nd Chevaulegers Regiment ,
- 6 pounder battery Lottersberg,
- 12 pounder battery Schuster,
- 2nd Jäger Battalion,
- 2nd Battalion of the Leibregiment ,
- 2nd and 3rd battalion of the 1st regiment,
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment,
- 4th Jäger Battalion,
- 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 8th Regiment,
- 6-pounder battery Hutten,
- 12 pounder battery Mussinau,
- 12 pounder battery Schropp,
- 3rd Jäger Battalion,
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 7th Regiment,
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 10th Regiment,
- 6 pounder battery Zeller,
- 6 pounder battery girl,
- 6-pounder battery Redenbacher,
- 12 pounder battery Gramich,
- 3rd Battalion of the 13th Regiment,
- 6 pounder battery Kriebel,
- 4th Chevaulegers Regiment.
Two of the guns finally had to be left behind near Uettingen.
Reasons for defeat
The Commander-in-Chief of the VIII Federal Army Corps, Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt , had already seen the reasons in the lack of armament and long mobilization in his campaign journal in 1867, and he had also denounced the long suspension of maneuvers and the inconsistent will of the allies. The later Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria had also made a similar statement.
In 1869 the Austrian General Staff Office for War History wrote about the fighting in Hettstadt and Uettingen: “As stated earlier, the Bavarian side had sufficient power in that area to repel the enemy. But the lack of uniform management - the troops were from different divisions and brigades and no one took over the command - was the reason that the Prussians did not find any serious resistance here either. ”At this time there was no mention of an alleged technical backwardness of the Bavarian troops.
Memorial stones
Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Royal Bavarian 2nd Jäger Battalion in the Uettingen cemetery
Memorial for the fallen of the Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiments 4, 7 and 10 on the Vogelsberg in Roßbrunn ( Waldbüttelbrunn )
literature
- Heinz Helmert, Hans-Jürgen Usczeck: Prussian-German Wars from 1864 to 1871 - Military Course , 6th revised edition, Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-327-00222-3
- Martin Cohn, From the Elbe to the Tauber: the campaign of the Prussian Main Army , part 2, p.251ff The double battle at Uettingen and Roßbrunn
Individual evidence
- ↑ v. War: "War diary of the regiment from the Main Army campaign in 1866"; Minden 1867
- ↑ After: Participation of the Royal Bavarian Army in the war of 1866, edited by the General Quartermaster Staff, Munich 1868
- ↑ Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt, Campaign Journal of the Commander-in-Chief of the 8th German Federal Army Corps in the campaign of 1866 in West Germany, Darmstadt / Leipzig 1867, pp. 40–41
- ↑ Austria's battles in 1866. Edited from field files by the Imperial and Royal General Staff Bureau for War History, Vol. 5, Vienna 1869, p. 146