Velten Muhly

Sandstone pillar from 1843 at the place where Muhly is said to have stood when he shot General Breda. The obelisk, where Breda is said to have fallen, is about 280 meters southeast of it.

Velten Muhly , actually Valentin Muhly , († June 1656 in Ziegenhain ) was butcher and commander of the 1539 founded vigilantes in Ziegenhain that the fortress guards on the peace fortress Ziegenhain knew.

According to tradition, it was Muhly who shot the commander of the imperial troops, General Hans Rudolf von Breda , in the battle on Riebelsdorfer Berg on November 15, 1640 . The Ziegenhain riflemen had marched through a forest and surprisingly found themselves in the back of Breda's command post. The numerically superior Imperial troops then lost the battle against Saxon-Weimar troops under Colonel Reinhold von Rosen , reinforced by a French battalion of Duke Henri von Orléans-Longueville and the Ziegenhain Citizens Corps.

In 1843, citizens of Ziegenhain erected an obelisk on today's B 454 at the point where Breda fell ; At the place where Velten Muhly is said to have shot at Breda, at least 280 meters away, there has been a slender stone pillar since then. The so-called Breda sword of the general is kept in the town hall of Ziegenhain.

Muhly died in Ziegenhain in June 1656 and was buried there.

Web links

• Bernd Warlich: Muhly, Velten [Valentin]. In: The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports.

literature

• Christian Röth: History of Hessen. Vollmann, Kassel 1856, pp. 281-283.