page_title: Breitenfeld, Leipzig
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Breitenfeld, Leipzig / History
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Bei Leipzig, Abbruch des Gutshofes Zentralbild- Erich O. Krueger, 1948, Die Realisierung der Verordnung vom September 1945 über die Durchführung der demokratischen Bodenreform in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone. U.B.z.: Abbruch des Rittergutshofes Breitenfeld, um Baumaterial für den Aufbau von Neubauernhäusern in der Gemeinde Lindenthal, im Landkreis Leipzig, zu gewinnen. 2202-48
context_page_description: The village of Breitenfeld belongs to the city of Leipzig. The village lies in the vicinity of the old road to Landsberg. On the south, it borders of the borough of Gohlis, in the west on Lindenthal and in the east, on Wiederitzsch.
context_section_description: Breitenfeld was first mentioned in documents in 1271, as part of the estate of the Margrafs of Landsberg. When the elder Dietrich of Landsberg died, his illegitimate son, Dietrich II, inherited the property.  The property of Breitenfeld, which included Wiederitzsch and Lindenthal, came under the legal jurisdiction of the Bishopric of Merseburg.  
  After the Reformation, Breitenfeld came into the possession of different Saxon noble families.  These occupants were counted among the Saxon noble houses, and usually had their seat at Landsberg.   
  During the Thirty Years War, in 1631, in the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631), an alliance of Saxon and Swedish forces, under the command of Gustav Adolf, the king of Sweden, with additional German allies and mercenaries, defeated the armies of the Catholic League and the Habsburgs, commanded by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly. In 1642, in a second Battle of Breitenfeld (1642), the troops of Sweden and Saxony again defeated the imperial troops.   
  At the Battle of Nations in 1813, the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher established his command post in the Breitenfeld mill, from which he coordinated the attacks on Napoleon's French troops positioned in Möckern and Gohlis.
  In 1856, the patrimonial authority was relinquished and Breitenfeld acquired local autonomy within the duchy of Saxony, as a community with its own village council.  In 1923, the village formed part of the conjoined community of Lindenthal, and in 1999, joined with the city of Leipzig.  Since 2002, Breitenfeld has been the main home of the Leipzig animal rescue, and the city's fairgrounds and exhibition hall is located at the village.
caption: Destroyed Manor (Fall, 1948), now the site of the Leipzig's animal rescue.
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