Battle of Rain am Lech
Battle of Rain am Lech - contemporary representation
| date | April 14th and 15th, 1632 |
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| place | Rain (Lech) |
| output | Victory of the Swedish troops, Protestant side |
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The battle of rain from 14 / 15. April 1632 was a major battle of the Thirty Years' War in Rain .
prehistory
After the great victory of the Swedish army under King Gustav Adolf over the army of the Catholic League in the Battle of Breitenfeld in September 1631, the Swedes took Nuremberg and then Donauwörth . Now in April 1632 they were about to cross the Lech , invade Bavaria and move towards Ingolstadt , Regensburg , Landshut and Munich . Field Marshal Graf von Tilly wanted to prevent this and prevent the Swedish army with its severely weakened and inferior league army, in which the Bavarian army again played an important role, from crossing the river over the Lech near Rain .
Course of the battle
After two days of continuous fire on both sides of the river, the Swedes managed to cross a little further south, whereupon Tilly reacted / was able to react too late. As the fighting continued, Tilly was hit by a bullet from a double hook in the right thigh , which completely shattered it. His deputy, Johann von Aldringen , was also injured in the course of the battle and was not operational. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian I ordered the withdrawal of the defeated army to Ingolstadt. The retreat was more like an escape and the entire entourage and almost all artillery were lost.
consequences
Count von Tilly succumbed to his injury in Ingolstadt on April 30, 1632. Gustav Adolf also moved to Ingolstadt, but avoided conquering the heavily fortified city and did not pursue the fleeing Bavarian troops, which were taken to Regensburg by Elector Maximilian in order to find quarters and occupy the imperial city at the same time. Gustav Adolf moved on to Munich, which he reached and occupied in mid-May.
See also
literature
- Harald Johannes Mann, The City of Rain and the Thirty Years War - The Battle of Rain in a Historical Context , 2nd edition, Rain 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ CV Wedgwood: The 30 Years War . Paul List Verlag Munich 1967; Licensed edition for Cormoran Verlag, Munich 1999, (pp. 275-279) ISBN 3-517-09017-4