Battle of Wisternitz

1619 battle of the Thirty Years' War

Part of the Thirty Years' War

Battle of Wisternitz (J. Scheiwl, 1881)

Date	5 August 1619
Location	Dolní Věstonice (present-day Czech Republic)
Result	Bohemian victory

Belligerents

Bohemian Confederation

Moravia

Holy Roman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Friedrich von Tiefenbach

Ladislav Velen ze Žerotína

Henri de Dampierre

Strength

3,500

8,000–12,000

Casualties and losses

700

6,000

Thirty Years' War

Bohemian Revolt (1618–1620)
Pilsen Lomnice Sablat Wisternitz Bautzen White Mountain Neu Titschein
Palatinate campaign (1620–1623)
Bad Kreuznach Oppenheim Bacharach Jülich Mingolsheim Wimpfen Höchst Bergen op Zoom Heidelberg Fleurus Mannheim Frankenthal Stadtlohn
Transylvanian invasions of Hungary (1619–1621, 1623–1624, 1626)
Humenné Érsekújvár Tyrnau [de] Hodonín Vlach uprisings
Danish intervention (1625–1629)
Breda Dessau Bridge Oldenzaal Lutter am Barenberge Groenlo Stralsund Wolgast 's-Hertogenbosch
Swedish intervention (1630–1635)
Swedish landing Frankfurt Magdeburg Werben 1st Breitenfeld Bamberg Rain Maastricht Nuremberg Wiesloch Alte Veste Fürth Lützen Oldendorf Pfaffenhofen Steinau Konstanz 1st Breisach 1st Rheinfelden Liegnitz [de] 1st Nördlingen Strasbourg Bridge
Swedish-French Period (1635–1648)
Les Avins Leuven Schenkenschans Ray-sur-Saône Dömitz [de] Haselünne [de] Raon Tornavento 2nd Magdeburg Somme Wittstock 2nd Breda Venlo Leipzig Hanau 2nd Rheinfelden Saint Omer Fuenterrabía Kallo Wittenweiher Thann [de] Vlotho 2nd Breisach 1st Freiberg Chemnitz Melnik Thionville Salses Cambrils Montjuïc Preßnitz Plauen La Marfée Dorsten Wolfenbüttel Kempen Honnecourt Schweidnitz 2nd Breitenfeld 2nd Freiberg Rocroi Tuttlingen Kolding Freiburg Philippsburg Jüterbog Bysjön Jankau Mergentheim 2nd Nördlingen 3rd Hulst Brünn [de] Korneuburg [de] Totenhöhe [de] Hohentübingen [de] Triebl Naples Zusmarshausen Wevelinghoven Lens Dachau [de] Prague
Naval battles
Gibraltar Genoa The Slaak 1st Saint Martin Lizard Point Dunkirk Channel The Downs Cape St. Vincent 2nd Saint Martin Lister Dyb Colberger Heide Fehmarn

_Treaties

v t e Bohemian Revolt
Pilsen Lomnice Sablat Wisternitz White Mountain

The Battle of Wisternitz or Dolní Věstonice was fought on 5 August 1619 between a Moravian force of the Bohemian Confederation under Friedrich von Tiefenbach (Teuffenbach)^[1] and a Habsburg army under Henri de Dampierre. The battle was a Moravian victory. The battle is part of the Thirty Years' War.

Budweis (České Budějovice) was one of the three towns which remained loyal to King Ferdinand of House Habsburg when Bohemia revolted. After the Habsburg victory at Sablat, the Bohemians were forced to raise the siege of České Budějovice. On 15 June 1619, Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim retreated to Soběslav where he awaited reinforcement by Count Heinrich Matthias von Thurn.

After taking control of the strong places of southern Bohemia, Ferdinand sent a force under Dampierre to Moravia, which had chosen the side of the Bohemian rebels. However, Dampierre was defeated at Dolní Věstonice (German: Wisternitz) by Moravian forces under von Tiefenbach (brother of Rudolf von Tiefenbach) and Ladislav Velen ze Žerotína in August 1619, which left Moravia in the Bohemian camp.

Notes

^ Freiherr Friedrich von Teuffenbach (Tiefenbach) ousted imperial troops, did not follow up

References

William P. Guthrie. Battles of the Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618–1635. Greenwood Publishing Group. Westport, Connecticut. 2002. ISBN 0-313-32028-4
Radek Fukala. Sen o odplatě. Dramata třicetileté války. Nakladatelství Epocha. 2005. ISBN 80-86328-84-8

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