Battle of Pressnitz
The Posto near Presnitz, 1641 by Pieter Snayers . - Depiction of the battle between Swedish and Imperial troops
| date | March 17th jul. / March 27, 1641 greg. |
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| place | Pressnitz |
| output | Victory of the imperial army |
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imperial (catholic) army |
Swedish (Protestant) army |
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Wallerfangen - Dömitz - Haselünne - Wittstock - Rheinfelden siege - Rheinfelden battle - Breisach Siege - Witten Weiher - Vlotho - Ochsenfeld - Chemnitz - Bautzen siege - Freiberg sieges - Riebel Dorfer Mountain - Dorsten - Preßnitz - La Marfée - Wolfenbüttel siege - Kempen Heath - Swidnica - Breitenfeld - Klingenthal - Tuttlingen - Freiburg - Jüterbog - Jankau - Herbsthausen - Alerheim - Korneuburg - Totenhöhe - Hohentübingen - Triebl - Zusmarshausen - Wevelinghoven - Dachau - Prague siege
In the Battle of Preßnitz defeated on March 17th July. / March 27, 1641 greg. in the Thirty Years' War the imperial troops under Octavio Piccolomini the troops of Sweden under Field Marshal Johan Banér .
course
In preparation for the campaign of the troops under Johan Banér on Regensburg, he set up his winter quarters in 1640/1641 in Cham near the Bohemian border in Upper Palatinate , with the aim of being able to unite with the regiments of the French commander Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant . On March 7th, July / March 17, 1641 greg. This camp was attacked by imperial troops and the numerically significantly inferior army of Banér, which was also weakened by losses, had to retreat to Saxony as quickly as possible - pursued by imperial cavalry regiments - via Bohemian territory.
On March 17th, Jul. / March 27, 1641 greg. Banér's troops moved from Kaaden into the Ore Mountains in the direction of Preßnitz , in the vicinity of which a heavy battle of retreat broke out that lasted until midnight. Banér's troops covered their backs through the deep forests to the north and south of the town and even built a wagon castle from which they fired artillery at the imperial troops. Under their cover, the Swedish troops withdrew to Annaberg . The Swedish infantry, covered by the guns behind the wagon castle, had an advantage over the heavy imperial cavalry in the heavily snow-covered and muddy terrain, but the numerical superiority of the enemy proved to be too great. Banér lost about 4,000 men, which was almost a third of the troop strength. Nevertheless, the Swedish army escaped complete defeat; shortly after this battle, Banér died in a field camp near Halberstadt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Zdeněk Hojda: The battle for Prague in 1648 and the end of the Thirty Years' War . In: Klaus Bußmann, Heinz Schilling (Ed.): 1648: War and Peace in Europe . tape 1 . Münster 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , pp. 403-412 ( online version of the article at lwl.org [accessed July 1, 2016]).