Battle of Kratzau

Contemporary depiction of the Battle of Kratzau ( Diebold Lauber , around 1440–50)

date	November 11, 1428
place	At Kratzau
output	Victory of the Silesian-Upper Lusatian Army

Parties to the conflict
Silesian - Upper Lusatian Army	Hussites * Sirotci
Commander
Hans von Polenz Johann I. von Sagan	Nikolaus von Kaisberg
losses
unknown	approx. 400 fallen

The battle of Kratzau took place on November 11th (according to other information November 16th) 1428 between a Silesian - Upper Lusatian army and Hussites near Kratzau in Bohemia .

During the battle, the Silesian-Upper Lusatian army under Hans von Polenz overwhelmed the Hussite troops and castles .

In November 1428, the Hussites, led by Nikolaus von Kaisberg , started a campaign from occupied Kratzau via Friedland and Ostritz to Löbau . The city could not be taken by the Hussites, and so they withdrew to Kratzau again. Silesian and Upper Lusatian troops pursued the Hussites and wiped them out near Kratzau.

Individual evidence

↑ Eberhard Windeck : Emperor Sigismund's book (around 1440-50)
↑ Norbert Kersken: The Upper Lusatia from the establishment of the six-city federation to the transition to the Electorate of Saxony (1346-1635). In: Joachim Bahlcke (ed.): History of Upper Lusatia. Dominion, society and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-935693-46-X , pp. 99–142, here p. 110, ( digitized version ).

[1] Eberhard Windeck : Emperor Sigismund's book (around 1440-50)

[2] Norbert Kersken: The Upper Lusatia from the establishment of the six-city federation to the transition to the Electorate of Saxony (1346-1635). In: Joachim Bahlcke (ed.): History of Upper Lusatia. Dominion, society and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-935693-46-X , pp. 99–142, here p. 110, ( digitized version ).