Battle of Sankelmark

Missunde - Oeversee - Jasmund - Diippel - Helgoland - Alsen - Lundby

The Battle of Oeversee (also Battle of Sankelmark ) was a battle during the German -Danish War of 1864.

Course

The Danish army was already on the evening of February 5, 1864 started during a snowstorm with a retreat from the Danewerk - fortification, which was perceived by the Prussian-Austrian army leadership as a troop movement. On the morning of February 6, 1864 the Prussian troops under Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia at Arnis succeeded then by the Danes as expected, the transition of the Schlei, and thus to circumvent the Danewerk position. The Danish commander Julius Christian de Meza then ordered the further retreat to avoid encirclement of his forces.

Hours later, met between the villages Sankelmark and Oeversee allied with the Prussians nachstoßenden Austrians from VI. k.u.k. Army Corps under Field Marshal Lieutenant of Gablenzgasse on the enemy. The Danish 7th and the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of Major General Peter Frederik Steinmann covered the retreat and had reinforced by artillery, entrenched in a favorable defensive position. A first attack of the Austrian brigade under Major General Johann Karl Nostic managed to ward under heavy losses, the Danish 7th Brigade by Lieutenant Colonel Max Müller. After standing in battle for the Imperial and Royal Rifle battalion 9 reinforcements, including artillery, had arrived, was another frontal assault by the Styrian Infantry Regiment No. 27 " King of the Belgians " that stuck after initial success at first. Only after a successful evasion maneuver succeeded the regimental commander Colonel Wilhelm of Württemberg, to push the other doggedly fighting the Danes in a bayonet charge and eventually force them to retreat. The sustained resistance of the defenders had the bulk of the Danish army but now as planned facilitate to an orderly disengagement, so that the battle in terms of strategy represented a success of the Danes.

During the few hour-long battle, the Austrians lost 28 officers and 403 enlisted men, the Danes, who came on the run in heavy artillery fire, 18 officers and 944 soldiers. Because the mainly involved in combat Military Police Battalion No. 9 as well as the imperial Infantry Regiment No. 27 " King of the Belgians " had its home garrison in Graz, there are in the city and a Oeverseegasse a befindliches in this alley Oeversee High School. Conversely, there is a place in Graz Oeversee. Even in the 15th district of Vienna there to commemorate this battle a Oeverseestraße. At the site of the battle there is a monument. Residents of about ten kilometers away Flensburg commemorate today the help of its citizens for the wounded on the day after the battle in a held annually from Flensburg to Oeversee Oeversee March.

Gallery

Clash of the Danish army with the Austrians

The Austrians monument in Oeversee

View of the battlefield with the treene