THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF LEUTHEN
When it is about the Battle of Leuthen all the attention - or almost - is paid on the attack of the Prussian Guard on the Catholic church of the village of Leuthen.
It is sometimes sad to consider that some parts of a famous and huge a battle of the past are forgotten because no one is passing the chronicles from the first sources till now.
The attack on the Protestant Church of Leuthen is nowhere told; one of the (new) aims of this site is also to reconstruct that parts of battles that are forgotten, but that is possible with a historical perspective to suppose.
The village of Leuthen, nowadays Slesia in Poland and called Lutynia, had and has two Churches is a balanced respect for its communities, the Catholic and the (in the past) Protestant.
The two churches are still visible today; they are located one in front of the other on a west/east line runnig through the village of Leuthen. The Protestant church is more on the west part of the village and suffered a less impressive attack by the Prussian, but indubitably it was also a center of hard fighting.
I recreate - in paper, as usual, this Church in accordance with the current pictures of it.
I imagined also it was surrounded by a low wall, with a sort of white color., as in the pictures here.
It is sometimes sad to consider that some parts of a famous and huge a battle of the past are forgotten because no one is passing the chronicles from the first sources till now.
The attack on the Protestant Church of Leuthen is nowhere told; one of the (new) aims of this site is also to reconstruct that parts of battles that are forgotten, but that is possible with a historical perspective to suppose.
The village of Leuthen, nowadays Slesia in Poland and called Lutynia, had and has two Churches is a balanced respect for its communities, the Catholic and the (in the past) Protestant.
The two churches are still visible today; they are located one in front of the other on a west/east line runnig through the village of Leuthen. The Protestant church is more on the west part of the village and suffered a less impressive attack by the Prussian, but indubitably it was also a center of hard fighting.
I recreate - in paper, as usual, this Church in accordance with the current pictures of it.
I imagined also it was surrounded by a low wall, with a sort of white color., as in the pictures here.
In these pictures the Protestant Church is defended by the Hungarian Regiment Haller; in the yard in front of it there is a huge mass of soldiers to try to create a fighting wall on the attacking Prussians.
As said, I will try to suppose what happened in that early afternoon 5th December 1757 in that part of the battlefield. As said, according to my sources in the zone of the Protestant Church was arrayed the Hungarian Haller regiment, (1 Battalion, i.e. about 570 men);
The Prussian units that encountered this battalion could have been the 2 battalions of the 8th Regiment von Geist, backed by the Ostenreich Grenadier Battalion, thus an attack of about 1.500 men invested the zone of the Protestant Church in Leuthen.
The Prussian units that encountered this battalion could have been the 2 battalions of the 8th Regiment von Geist, backed by the Ostenreich Grenadier Battalion, thus an attack of about 1.500 men invested the zone of the Protestant Church in Leuthen.
It is also possible that behind the church, in the streets as a support of the Haller Regiment were deployed two battalions of the Austrian Regiment Wolfenbuttel.
