Wenzel Siegfried von Breuner
Wenzel Siegfried von Breuner (born October 5, 1670 - † August 5, 1716 , murdered near Peterwardein ) was an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal .
His parents were Count Siegfried Christoph "the Younger" Breuner von Asparn (* 1635; † May 8, 1698) and his wife Maria Barbara Elisabeth Breunner Freinn zu Stubing (* 1642; † 1740)
He was promoted to General Field Sergeant on August 17, 1707 with rank of April 26, 1705 and to Field Marshal Lieutenant on May 5, 1716.
He became known for his demise at the end of the Battle of Peterwardein . Breuner was on a reconnaissance ride under Palffy on August 1, 1716. It came to a battle with the Turks. He fought but was captured after losing his horse. When the battle approached the Grand Vizier's tent around noon on August 5, 1716, he had all the prisoners killed and stormed into battle, where he fell.
When Prince Eugene approached the Grand Vizier's tent, it was a shocking sight. Next to the tent was Count Breuner's corpse, still shackled around his neck and feet. As the blood pouring from a myriad of wounds showed, murdered very recently. They also found numerous heads for it.
Breuner's end provided the well-known poet Johann Nepomuk Vogl with the material for the ballad: "The Breuner oak near Peterwardein", since, according to another version, the count, tied to an oak, was shot to death with arrows. A chain, with which the field marshal lieutenant is said to have been tied, was exhibited as exhibit 553 in the Vienna armory.
To commemorate the battle, the Maria Schnee church near Peterwardein was expanded.
literature
- Wilhelm Edler von Janko : Breuner, Siegfried Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 321.
- Alfred von Arneth , Prinz Eugen Von Savoyen , Volume 2, p. 392f, digitized capture of Breuner
- Jacob AF Hyrtl, The Princely, Counts and Baronial Families of the Austrian Imperial State , p. 14, digitized here as Ferdinand Ernst von Breuner
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Nepomuk Vogl, Ballads and Romances (New Series) , Die Breuner-Eiche
- ↑ Friedrich Otto von Leber, Vienna's imperial armory viewed for the first time from a historical-critical point of view , p. 313, digitized version
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Breuner, Wenzel Siegfried von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian field marshal lieutenant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1670 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1716 |
| Place of death | at Peterwardein |