Battle of Deining

Battle of Deining

Part of: First Coalition War

date	August 22, 1796
place	Deining in the Upper Palatinate
output	Victory of the Austrians
consequences	Retreat of the French

Parties to the conflict
France	Austria
Commander
Division General Bernadotte	Karl von Teschen Friedrich August von Nauendorf
Troop strength
6,000	28,000
losses
not specified	not specified
2 villagers

Unfought bridge of the Battle of Deining today

The battle of Deining took place on August 22, 1796 during the First Coalition War between the French under General Jourdan and the Austrians under Archduke Karl in and around the village of Deining .

Course of the battle

When the French General Bernadotte wanted to move on with his troops in the direction of Regensburg after two days in Neumarkt , he encountered the troops of General Nauendorf near Deining , who initially withdrew to Daßwang before the French overwhelming force . In the meantime, however, the Austrian Archduke Karl, coming from Ingolstadt and Riedenburg , had also arrived on the Regensburg-Neumarkt road. On August 21, 1796, Nauendorf attacked the French with infantry and cavalry near Daßwang and pursued them to Batzhausen . A fierce battle developed around this village.

On the night of August 21-22, 1796, the French withdrew to Deining. General Bernadotte now stood on the heights near Deining with his division of 6,000 men (including 1,200 horsemen). He wanted to stop Deining and prevent the Austrians from crossing the Laaberbrücke, which played an important strategic role. The Austrian Archduke Karl advanced with his 28,000-strong army. The Austrians succeeded in driving the French out east of the village and invading the village.

Finally, Bernadotte had to give way to the Austrian superiority, which Deining captured around nine o'clock in the evening, and he retired to Neumarkt.

Effects

Half of the place and Siegenhofen were destroyed by the effects of the battle except for the church and the shepherd's house. The French fled towards Neumarkt; there the city was saved from destruction by the courageous gate smith Veit Jung (see the legend of the gate smith Veit Jung ).

During the bombardment of Deining, 18 buildings were killed by the Austrian howitzers .

The parish chronicle of Deining reports about it: "Rectory and farm building in Deining shot to pieces, 2 barns and stables burned down, the windows at the rectory burned out."

memory

A number of field names recall today of the Battle of Deining. Different hallways have names such as war wood, war fields, Kugelanger or Kugelwiese.

In the church on the Herz-Jesu-Berg near Velburg there was a votive picture depicting the Deiningen battle. The painting is currently on loan at the House of Bavarian History in Regensburg.

Today a memorial stone in Deining commemorates the dead in the battle.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ after memoirs of the Gesch. d. Campaign of 1796, after Obergeneral Jourdan , German translation from 1823, online at Google books
2. ↑ Memories of the Gesch. d. Campaign of 1796, German translation from 1823, part II, p. 79
3. ↑ http://www.deining.de/uploads/media/Ausgabe01.pdf
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )