Battle of Grauholz

Lengnau - Grenchen - Ruhsel - Col de la Croix - St. Niklaus - Woman Fountain - Neuenegg - Grey Wood - Hägglingen - Wollerau - Stucketen - Chäppeli - Schindellegistrasse - Rothenthurm - Morgarten - 1 Pfynschlacht - Nidwalden - 2 Pfynschlacht

In the battle of the gray wood on March 5 In 1798, Bernese troops put under the command of Karl Ludwig von Erlach the French army of General Balthasar Alexis Henri Antoine of Schauenburg, although the government of Bern had already capitulated at this time.

The defenders Berns contributed, in a first meeting with Mrs. Fountain and then in the gray wood, a forested hills near the town of Berne, fierce resistance. Many women, old men and sometimes even children of the rural population to fighting Bernese troops joined in and tried their city against the French invasion to preserve.

The superiority of the French people was overwhelming, the Berne were beaten in both women well and in the gray wood. Von Erlach the remnants of his army took back and tried unsuccessfully on the Schosshalde to Bern ( at the entrance to Untertorbrücke ) to ask the French again.

The government of Berne under the Schultheissen Niklaus Friedrich von Steiger at that time had already surrendered and thus the entire Bernese resistance collapsed - despite the victory of General Johann Rudolf von Graffenried at Neuenegg.

In the belief that General Karl Ludwig von Erlach had betrayed Bern, he was killed by desperate farmers Wichtrach. Von Erlach was on his way to the Bernese Oberland, from where he wanted to regroup the resistance against the French.

At the Battle of the Grey Wood remembers the 1886 inaugurated on gray wood gray wooden monument.