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A forum for the disscussion of the Play by Mail games from Agema Publications


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    Battle Of Blenheim

    tek_604
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    Post by tek_604 Mon May 16, 2011 7:20 am

    I was recently away at a Team Meeting in Noerdlingen, Bavaria. A very interesting town, some 30Kms (19 miles) away from Blindheim, better known in English as Blenheim. Noerdlingen is interesting because although in Bavaria, it is actually a Protestant town. During the 30 years war, it was the site of two battles.

    On a guided tour of the town, we were shown the Sankt Georg (St. George) church. Although a Protestant town, it was the first church I've stepped foot in Germany, and for it to still feel like a church! (Being "Anglican", Lutheran churches here in Niedersachsen are NOT churches...!). Anyway, within the church, I found a memorial to three guys:

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    Looking closer, they all died on the 13th August, 1704... The date of the Battle of Blenheim. So, I looked closer... (Fraktur is hard to read, and my German is bad, so bear with me)

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    Carol Heinrich von... Hauptmann, under the Emperor. He fell in a "hartem treffen" against the "Franzossen"...

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    Christian Rudolf von Haatz... Lieutenant, under the Emperor. Also fell in "hartem treffen" against the "Franzossen"...

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    ... Hard to read name (sorry, my camera work is terrible I know!)... Captain, under the "Kron Prinz in Preuessen" (I think). Also fell in the "hartem treffen" against the "Franzossen"...

    So, what we have, is a memorial to three guys, fighting on the side of the Habsburgs, presumably under Prince Eugene of Savoy, on the side against the French.

    A great surprise. I am only sorry I couldn't get to the battlefield myself; although only 30kms away, I had to travel by train (the curse of the Dienstreise!). With luck, I'll go another time.

    If anyone has any ideas of other battlefield areas I should visit here in Germany (other than the obvious WWII), then let me know!
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    Post by Frank Mon May 16, 2011 9:12 am

    Well, the Old German writing is difficult to read even for us germans. study

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