Battle of Hagelberg
Map of the battle
| date | August 27, 1813 |
|---|---|
| place | Hagelberg |
| output | Prussian-Russian victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 10,000 men | 11,500 men |
| losses | |
|
1,500 dead |
1,759 men |
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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 of Hagelberg (also: Skirmish near Lübnitz ) took place on August 27, 1813, following the Battle of Großbeeren and in the run-up to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig during the Wars of Liberation .
procedure
On August 27, 1813 around 5 p.m., a Prussian contingent (3,500 regulars, 8,000 Landwehr ) under General Karl Friedrich von Hirschfeld on the Hagelberg encountered a French corps (10,000 men) under Division General Jean-Baptiste Girard . Since it had been raining since noon, the powder and rifles had often become damp, so that the soldiers mostly fought with bayonets and rifle butts. The battle is therefore also known as the piston battle .
Russian Cossacks under General Alexander Tschernyschow , who were quartered in nearby Belzig , were able to decide the battle in favor of Prussia by intervening. The Saxon contingents on the French side then overflowed to the Prussian side. An energetic persecution did not take place due to the general exhaustion on the part of the Prussians. This role was played by the Cossacks who attacked the French in Wiesenburg that night . They were able to capture a gun and take numerous prisoners. The Prussian losses were 1,750 dead and wounded, while only around 3,000 French were able to reach Magdeburg unharmed . The French corps had practically ceased to exist.
The battle, actually just a skirmish, was one of the first missions of the newly created Landwehr and confirmed the value of this force. After the battle, a total of 136 Iron Crosses were awarded: 80 to officers, 30 to non-commissioned officers and 26 to commoners.
gallery
Plan “To the meeting near Hagelberg”, August 27, 1813
Memorial plaque from 1955
Memorial from 1848/49 in memory of the battle
literature
- Joachim Schobeß : From the mercenary army 1806 to the people's army 1813. The Brandenburg Landwehr near Hagelberg on August 27, 1813 , publisher: Council of the district of Belzig - Department of Culture, Belzig 1963
- Theodor Rehtwisch : Großbeeren. August 23, 1813 , Preussisches Bücherkabinett, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-938447-03-6
- Frank Bauer: Hagelberg August 27, 1813 , (Small series History of the Wars of Liberation 1813–1815, no. 22), Potsdam 2008.
- Program of the Hagelberg Celebration 1849 belzig.eu (PDF; 4.12 MB)
- Kunze, Reiner: The battle near Hagelberg , (Belziger Heimatkalender 1988, p. 6ff)
- Carl von Plotho, The War in Germany and France in the Years 1813 and 1814 , Volume 3, S.150ff Battle near Lübnitz
