Battle of the Leprosenberg
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View from Grabener Höhe to the battlefield (2012)
| date | April 14, 1525 |
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| place | near Bad Wurzach |
| output | Victory of the Swabian Federation |
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| Troop strength | |
| 7,000 | 7,000 |
| losses | |
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140 |
unknown |
The Battle of Leprosenberg , also known as the battle near Wurzach , was a battle during the German Peasants' War near Wurzach in what is now the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia .
Course of the battle
During Holy Week on Tuesday, April 11, 1525, Georg von Waldburg-Zeil , known as the Bauernjörg , was still on a line between Ulm and Leipheim with his army. On the evening of the same day he set up camp in Baltringen , one of the starting points for the uprisings. Three days later, the Landsknechte, Panzerreiter and entourage of the Swabian Federation , co-financed by Jakob Fugger , camped in the rather flat area west of the city towards Waldsee , near the Leprosenberg. The farmers under their leader Pfaff-Florian von Aichstetten had taken up their positions south of the city on the mountainous terrain of Auf der Bleiche below the Ziegelberg. There were small skirmishes in the run-up to the battle. Both leaders of the armies had considerable local knowledge, as the battlefield was only 20 km from their respective hometowns. The peasants failed to penetrate the walled city of Wurzach or to convince the townspeople to take their side.
On Good Friday , April 14, 1525, the positions of the above-mentioned peasant army were bombarded by the cannons of the Swabian Federation. The two opponents were each represented with the same number of troops. The skilled mercenaries and armored riders of the Swabian League, their better armament and training were decisive in the battle.
In the evening the defeated peasants began to withdraw. Those farmers who fled to the west of the positions of the Swabian League were lucky. They managed to escape towards Gaisbeuren . The fleeing farmers who tried to escape in the direction of the Wurzacher Ried and the Wurzacher Ach during the night were very likely to perish, as they were also pursued by the riders of the Bauernjörg.
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A number of other battles followed. By September 1525, all skirmishes and punitive actions were over. Emperor Charles V and Pope Clemens VII thanked the Swabian Federation for its intervention.
Pfaff-Florian was one of the survivors of the battle and fled to the Confederation after negotiating the Weingartner Treaty. As a rule, leaders and captains were immediately executed if caught. Captured insurgent farmers had to pay a general bounty of 6 guilders in installments and were then released. Georg and his cousin Wilhelm were both appointed "Reichserbtruchsess" by Emperor Charles V on July 27, 1526 in Toledo . At the site of the battlefield today that already exist in 1355 mentioned Leprosenhaus and in 1505 donated Leprosenkapelle .
literature
- Wilhelm Zimmermann : The great German peasant war . Köhler, Stuttgart 1841-43; Dietz, Stuttgart 1891; Dietz, Berlin 1952; deb, Berlin 1980 and 1982 (7th edition ISBN 3-920303-26-1 ); Berlin 1993 ISBN 3-320-01829-9 .
- Peter Blickle: The Revolution of 1525 . 4th revised and bibliographically expanded edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-44264-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the great peasant war: According to the documents and eyewitnesses, Volume 1, p. 378 , accessed on June 7, 2012
- ↑ History of the Great Peasants' War: According to the documents and eyewitnesses, Volume 1, p. 375 , accessed on June 7, 2012
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '22.8 " N , 9 ° 53' 1.6" E