Magdeburg succurs

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Magdeburg Succurs , also known as the Sukkurs von Magdeburg , was a ski jump in the Kreuzhorst near Magdeburg during the Thirty Years War .

location

The ski jump was on a meadow in the Kreuzhorst near the Dornburg Old Elbe. In the 20th century it was described that the place was where at that time a path led over a small hill. In the hill there was a guard house made of strong oak trunks. The crew consisted of an officer and 18 men.

history

In the run-up to the siege of the city of Magdeburg by imperial / Catholic troops in 1631, Magdeburg troops laid several entrenchments in the vicinity of the city on the orders of the Swedish commander Dietrich von Falkenberg . Including three ski jumps in the area of ​​the Kreuzhorst forest area south-east of the city and separated from the city by the Elbe. The best developed ski jump of these three fortifications was the Magdeburg Succurs. A little further north was Trutz Tilly , east of Pechau was Trutz Pappenheim . The purpose of the entrenchments was to secure ship traffic on the Elbe and the traffic on the way out of the Electorate of Saxony on the way via Gommern from enemy strips. This also succeeded at first. A first attack by imperial troops shortly after completion could be repulsed. With the arrival of the main imperial force at the end of March 1631, however, the situation of the entrenchments located very far from the city changed significantly.

From March 30th / 9th April 1631 then Pappenheim's troops undertook attacks against the entrenchments, whereby Trutz Pappenheim initially fell. The Savelli regiment attacked the Magdeburg Succurs. The commandant of the defense lawyers was Lieutenant Berwitz . Three attacks failed due to heavy resistance from the defenders. In the fourth attack, the attackers managed to take the hill, but the defenders withdrew to the guardhouse. The imperial troops then set fire and were able to break the remaining resistance in a fifth attack. The Magdeburg commandant's right arm was shot through with a wire bullet . The crew begged for their lives on their knees. Tilly , who was present himself on site, gave the lieutenant his life, but the crew was slain. According to other information, unlike Trutz Pappenheim and Trutz Tilly, who was later taken without a fight, the crew of the Magdeburg Succurs remained alive.

The fighting marked the beginning of the extensive destruction of the city of Magdeburg by Imperial / Catholic troops on May 10, 1631 .

literature

  • Friedrich Großhennig, Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the Magdeburg-SO district , manuscript in the Magdeburg city archive, signature 80 / 1035n, Part II, page 7 ff.
  • Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester Cracau , self-published Magdeburg 1932, page 26 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Großhennig, Ortschronik von Westerhüsen , Part II, page 8
  2. ^ Riecke, Chronicle Prester Cracau , page 29

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 47.9 "  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 55"  E