Paderborn Infantry Regiment

Paderborn Infantry Regiment / also name after regiment owner
active	1676 (with interruptions) to 1802
Country	Principality of Paderborn
Branch of service	infantry
Subordinate troops	3–5 musketeer and 1 grenadier company
Insinuation	Imperial Army , Lower Rhine-Westphalian District Defense
Location	Paderborn , (musketeer) Neuhaus (grenadiers)
owner	1676–1678 Wilhelm von Plettenberg zu Lenhausen , 1691–1697 Phillip Jacob von der Lippe , 1703–1713 Jobst Elmerhaus von Haxthausen , 1734/1735 Hermann Werner Joseph von Schorlemer , 1735–1754 Friedrich Florenz Raban von der Wenge , 1754–1788 Ferdinand Moritz von Mengersen , 1788–1802 Ewald von Kleist
Wars	Bremen-Verden Campaign , War of Palatinate Succession , War of Spanish Succession , War of Polish Succession , Russian-Austrian Turkish War (1736–1739) , War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years War

The Paderborn Infantry Regiment was a military unit of the Paderborn Abbey that was combined into one regiment several times in the 17th and 18th centuries . The regiment was called differently according to the names of its owners .

history

Paderborn Grenadier of the Wenge regiment on foot in the War of the Polish Succession in front of Philippsburg 1734 - contemporary Gudenus manuscript

In order to meet its obligations in the Holy Roman Empire , the small spiritual principality of Paderborn regularly provided contingents from the Lower Rhine-Westphalian district for the Imperial Army .

Formation history and locations

In 1702 332 infantrymen were named for the "Westphalian circular armature". Paderborn only inadequately fulfilled the expectations of the emperor and empire. The exact size of the regiment did not exceed a battalion (about 500 to over 800 men) of infantry . The infantry consisted of 3–5 musketeer and one grenadier company . After the Seven Years' War, only one "body grenadier company" could be set up from the returning soldiers in 1763, until a musketeer company was set up again in 1768. This Paderborn 'two-company system' was maintained until the troops were disbanded in the course of the incorporation of the prince-bishopric into the Prussian state in 1802. In addition to the active companies in Neuhaus, there was also an invalid company. In times of peace, the Paderborn infantry regiment was stationed in Paderborn (musketeers) as well as in the Neuhaus residence (grenadiers, invalids). As usual in Europe, the billeting of the troops did not take place in barracks , but with the civilian population . The state soldiers were also not popular, which was exemplified by hostility during the " coffee noise " in 1781.

Mission history

In spite of the poor equipment and poor training, the Paderborn regiment took part in several campaigns. The Paderborn infantrymen were first used in 1689 during the successful siege of Bonn in the Palatinate War of Succession against France . Paderborn troops also took part in the War of the Spanish Succession , the War of the Polish Succession ( Siege of Philippsburg (1734) ) and the Turkish War 1736–1739 in Hungary with a nominal strength of 819 men, with great losses. In 1745 the Paderborns moved into the Duchy of Westphalia in the War of the Austrian Succession with allied Kurhannoverschen and Hessen-Kasselschen . The troops undertook the longest campaign in Thuringia and Saxony from 1757 to 1763 in the Seven Years' War, in which they probably never took part in major battles due to their poor condition. Eventually they got into Prussian captivity at Eckartsberg . A newly recruited unit was probably no longer used. In the first two coalition wars 1792–1802 the Paderborn niche no longer took part, the dissolution took place in 1802 through the annexation of the country by Prussia .

Paderborn Regiment on the market square of Paderborn 1755 (watercolor by Gleseker), Paderborn City Museum
The castle guard of the grenadiers in the Neuhaus residence. The only remaining building of the Prince-Bishop's military (1733).
Paderborn musketeer on the market square of Paderborn around 1755 (painting by Gleseker), Historical Museum in the Marstall (Paderborn) .
Satirical depiction of the regiment during the coffee noise in 1781 in the Fliegende Blätter 1878.

Prominent members of the regiment

Johann Conrad Schlaun

literature

Benedikt Mauer : "... that we are marching over there in Ungeren." A soldier in Paderborn in the 18th century . In: Westphalian magazine . tape 146 . Bonifatius Druck Buch Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-87088-909-8 , ISSN 0083-9043 , p. 245-272 .
Franz Mürmann : The military system of the former Paderborn Monastery since the end of the Thirty Years' War . In: Westphalian magazine . tape 95 . Münster 1939, p. II, 3-78 ( online ).
Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
Georg Josef Rosenkranz: The Paderborn Battalion in the Seven Years' War . In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity . tape 11 , 1849 ( Wikisource ).

Web links

Commons : Military of Paderborn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The regiment in the private project SYW (English)

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Franz Mürmann: The military system of the former Paderborn Monastery since the end of the Thirty Years' War . Münster 1938 (dissertation University of Münster).
^ Franz Mürmann: The military system of the former Hochstift Paderborn since the end of the Thirty Years' War. Münster 1938, p. 18.
^ Franz Mürmann: The military system of the former Hochstift Paderborn since the end of the Thirty Years' War. Münster 1938, pp. 18-21.

[1] . Franz Mürmann: The military system of the former Paderborn Monastery since the end of the Thirty Years' War . Münster 1938 (dissertation University of Münster).

[2] Franz Mürmann: The military system of the former Hochstift Paderborn since the end of the Thirty Years' War. Münster 1938, p. 18.

[3] Franz Mürmann: The military system of the former Hochstift Paderborn since the end of the Thirty Years' War. Münster 1938, pp. 18-21.