page_title: Battle of Mingolsheim
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Mingolsheim
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gedenktafel zur Schlacht am Ohrenberg, 27. April 1622, mit Zitat von Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker English: Battle-Memory of 27. April 1622 in Mingolsheim. Place: Bad Schoenborn/ Bad Mingolsheim English: English translation: "In the 30 Thirty Years' War on April 27th of 1632 count Ernst Mansfeld, Protestant general, met troops of the Catholic League under general Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, in the battle of Mingolsheim. Therein more than 2000 mercenaries died, countless numbers were wounded. Mingolsheim was reduced to ashes on that day. - Peace is the task of our time. - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker"
context_page_description: The Battle of Mingolsheim was fought on 27 April 1622, near the German village of Wiesloch, 23 km south of Heidelberg, between a Protestant army under General von Mansfeld and the Margrave of Baden-Durlach against a Roman Catholic army under Count Tilly.
  Early in the spring of 1621, a mercenary force under the command of Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, crossed the Rhine River from Alsace to junction with a force under Ernst von Mansfeld. Combined, the armies aimed to prevent a link-up between Count Tilly and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, arriving with an army 20,000 strong from the Spanish Netherlands under orders from General Ambrosio Spinola. Tilly met the Protestant army at its rear guard and drove upon it. This attack was successful until he engaged the main Protestant body, and was then rebuffed. Tilly retreated and bypassed the stationary Protestant army to link up with de Córdoba later that month. After the battle, Mansfeld found himself at a distinct disadvantage until the armies of Christian of Brunswick could arrive from the north. The two armies would engage later in the month at the Battle of Wimpfen.
context_section_description: The Battle of Mingolsheim (German: Schlacht bei Mingolsheim) was fought on 27 April 1622, near the German village of Wiesloch, 23 km (14 mi) south of Heidelberg (and 8 km or 5 mi south of Wiesloch), between a Protestant army under General von Mansfeld and the Margrave of Baden-Durlach against a Roman Catholic army under Count Tilly.
  Early in the spring of 1621, a mercenary force under the command of Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, crossed the Rhine River from Alsace to junction with a force under Ernst von Mansfeld. Combined, the armies aimed to prevent a link-up between Count Tilly and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, arriving with an army 20,000 strong from the Spanish Netherlands under orders from General Ambrosio Spinola. Tilly met the Protestant army at its rear guard and drove upon it. This attack was successful until he engaged the main Protestant body, and was then rebuffed. Tilly retreated and bypassed the stationary Protestant army to link up with de Córdoba later that month. After the battle, Mansfeld found himself at a distinct disadvantage until the armies of Christian of Brunswick could arrive from the north. The two armies would engage later in the month at the Battle of Wimpfen.
caption: Memorial plate of the Battle of Mingolsheim
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