Battle of Wisternitz (Redirected from Battle of Věstonice)

Battle of Wisternitz
Part of the Thirty Years' War

Battle of Wisternitz (J. Scheiwl, 1881)
Date5 August 1619
Location
Result Bohemian victory
Belligerents

Bohemia Bohemian Confederation

 Holy Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Bohemia Friedrich von Tiefenbach
Bohemia Ladislav Velen ze Žerotína
Holy Roman Empire Henri de Dampierre
Strength
3,500 8,000–12,000
Casualties and losses
700 6,000

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) 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.

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