page_title: Battle of the Göhrde
section_title: Commemorations
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of the Göhrde / Commemorations
caption_attribution_description: Gedenkstätten der Göhrdeschlacht
context_page_description: The battle of the Göhrde was a battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition on 18 September 1813 between French and Coalition troops at Göhrde in Germany. The French troops were defeated and withdrew to Hamburg.
context_section_description: A large stone monument stands as a memorial to the battle in 1839, at a site now north of Bundesstraße 216 about 2 km behind Oldendorf in Richtung Dannenberg.
  1000 dead soldiers from both sides were buried in a mass grave in the forest, 100m from where the memorial is sited.  This grave was rediscovered in 1985.
  Rudolf von Bennigsen's father Karl von Bennigsen fought in this battle (as a lieutenant), as did the famous freedom fighter Eleonore Prochaska.  She had disguised herself as a man and joined the Lützow Free Corps.  During the battle she was wounded and soon afterwards succumbed to her injuries in the hospital at Dannenberg.
  A reconstruction of the battle occurs every two years at Dahlenburg.  At the Heimatmuseum in the town a diorama of the battle is on permanent display, with 1500 tin soldiers.
caption: Memorial
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