Dennewitz is a village of
Germany
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, in the federal state and old
Prussia
Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...
n province of
Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 square ...
, near
Jüterbog
Jüterbog () is a historic town in north-eastern Germany, in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg. It is on the Nuthe river at the northern slope of the Fläming hill range, about southwest of Berlin.
History
The Slavic settlement of '' ...
, 40 km. S.W. from
Berlin
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. It is part of the municipality of
Niedergörsdorf,
Teltow-Fläming
Teltow-Fläming () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise) Dahme-Spreewald, Elbe-Elster
Elbe-Elster is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southern part of Brand ...
district.
History
It is memorable as the scene of a decisive
battle
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on the 6 September 1813, during the
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...
, specifically the War of the Sixth Coalition, in which
Marshal Ney
Michel Ney, 1st Duke of Elchingen, 1st Prince of the Moskva (; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one o ...
, with an army of 58,000 French, Saxons and Poles, was defeated with great loss by an allied army with 85,000
[Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket (1925). Bernadotte: Prince and King. Pp. 91-92. John Murray.] Prussians, Swedes and Russians led by Prussian generals von Bülow (afterwards Count Bülow of Dennewitz) and Tauentzien and the commander of the Allied Army of the North, Swedish Crown Prince and Regent
Carl Johan
sv, Karl Johan Baptist Julius
, spouse =
, issue = Oscar I of Sweden
, house = Bernadotte
, father = Henri Bernadotte
, mother = Jeanne de Saint-Jean
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Pau, ...
. The Swedish corps was commanded by Field Marshal
Kurt von Stedingk. The site of the battle is marked by an iron obelisk.
During the battle, and in the subsequent pursuit, Napoleon's army lost 23,215 men, 53 cannons and 413 supply vehicles. The Army of the North lost 9,700 men, mostly Prussians from Von Bulow's corps.
Pictures
Image:Dennewitz_Denkmal_Buelow.jpg, Bülow Bülow or Bulow is a surname; notable people with this name include:
People
*Bülow family, a noble family from Germany (has links to Wikipedia articles of family members named "von Bülow")
*bülow (singer), or Megan Bülow (born 1999), German-Can ...
memorial
Image:Dennewitz_Denkmal_Tauentzien.jpg, Tauentzien memorial
References
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Villages in Brandenburg
Localities in Teltow-Fläming