Battle of Hoyerswerda
date | September 25, 1759 |
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place | at Hoyerswerda |
output | Victory of the Prussians |
Parties to the conflict | |
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Commander | |
General Franz von Vehla |
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Troop strength | |
4,000 | 3,000 |
losses | |
100 |
600 dead and wounded and 1,813 prisoners |
Eastern theater of war
Pirna - Lobositz - Prague - Kolin - Groß-Jägersdorf - Moys - Roßbach - Breslau - Leuthen - Domstadtl - Olmütz - Zorndorf - Hochkirch - Kay - Kunersdorf - Hoyerswerda - Maxen - Koßdorf - Landeshut - Liegnitz - Oschatz - Berlin - Wittenberg - Torgau - Döbeln - Burkersdorf - Reichenbach - Freiberg
The Battle of Hoyerswerda was a minor battle of the Seven Years War . On September 25, 1759, the Prussian armed forces under the leadership of Prince Heinrich of Prussia defeated the Austrian General Vehla on the Black Elster near Hoyerswerda .
The armed forces of Prussia advancing from the east in a 50-hour forced march through enemy territory surprised the Hungarian infantry corps , which was supported by Croatian regiments and artillery , stood on the westernmost flank of the northwestern front and therefore hardly expected attacks. Units under General Lentulus pushed forward through a forest and attacked the enemy from the front and behind. 600 Austrians fell, their army was dispersed. General Vehla was imprisoned with 28 officers and 1,785 men.
A memorial stone with a plaque in Bleichgässchen in the old town of Hoyerswerda commemorates this battle.
literature
- Johann Friedrich Seyfart : History of the war that has been waged in Germany and its neighboring countries since 1756 , Part 3, Department 1, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1761, p. 259
- Johann Friedrich Seyfart: Philipp von Schröter, Royal Prussian Lieutenants under the Hochfürstlichen Anhalt-Bernburgischen Regiment infantry, war history of the Prussians from the years 1655 to 1763 , Frankfurt and Leipzig 1764, p. 371
- Adam Heinrich Dietrich von Bülow : Prince Heinrich of Prussia. Critical history of his campaigns , part 1, Berlin 1805, p. 128