Battle of Lucka

The Battle of Lucka was a dispute between Albert I of Habsburg and the Margrave of Meissen Frederick the Bitten and the Margrave of Lausitz Dietrich IV and took place on May 31, 1307 directly next to the village Lucka, which was first mentioned in records in 1320 instead.

Prehistory

The Roman- German King Adolf of Nassau pulled the Margraviate of Meissen as fiefs, as these had been occupied after the extinction of a collateral line of the Wettin literally abandoned and by a son of Albert the Degenerate. Adolf of Nassau and his successor, Albert I tried the claimed territories of the kingdom, against the resistance of the Wettin family heirs to take possession.

Battle

The Wettin army struck the under the command of the castle standing Count Friedrich of Nuremberg Albrecht I. The victory was a guarantee for the survival of the ruling house of Wettin. The citizens of Lucka now believe that their city got city rights on the occasion of that victory.

In the battle in the known mainly in Saxony saying goes: "There will succeed you, as the Swabians in gaps" back, in the sense that it will not work. Troops from Swabia seem to have constituted the largest part of the Imperial Army, so the Imperial Army was popularly equated with the Swabians.