Schweinfurt

It's back-to-back 1860 games.

I was going to feature a different game in the Regionalliga Bayern, but unfortunately Unterhaching, um, the, the other game, Unterhaching against Schweinfurt that I thought, uh, would be an interesting fixture is taking place today.

So, [chuckles] um, we're not in a situation where we would have had enough time, um, to, to go for that fixture.

And you know what? Um, it is kind of unfortunate a little bit that Bayern aren't playing during Oktoberfest.

from the inhabitants of this as of every important place which afterwards submitted he exacted an oath of allegiance while he secured its possession by a sufficient garrison to his ally duke william of weimar he entrusted the command of an army to be raised in thuringia he also left his queen in erfurt and promised to increase its privileges the swedish army now crossed the thuringian forest in two columns by gotha and arnstadt and having delivered in its march the country of henneberg from the imperialists formed a junction on the third day near konigshofen on the frontiers of franconia francis bishop of wurzburg the bitter enemy of the protestants and the most zealous member of the league was the first to feel the indignation of gustavus adolphus a few threats gained for the swedes possession of his fortress of konigshafen and with it the key of the whole province at the news of this rapid conquest dismay seized all the roman catholic towns of the circle the bishops of wrzburg and bamberg trembled in their castles they already saw their seas tottering their churches profaned and their religion degraded the malice of his enemies had circulated the most frightful representations of the persecuting spirit and the mode of warfare pursued by the swedish king and his soldiers which neither the repeated assurances of the king nor the most splendid examples of humanity and toleration ever entirely effaced many feared to suffer at the hands of another what in similar circumstances they were conscious of inflicting themselves many of the richest roman catholics hastened to secure by flight their property their religion and their persons from the sanguinary fanaticism of the swedes the bishop himself set the example in the midst of the alarm which his bigoted zeal has caused he abandoned his dominions and fled to paris to excite if possible the french ministry against the common enemy of religion The further progress of Gustavus Adolphus in the ecclesiastical territories agreed with this brilliant commencement.

Schweinfurt, and soon afterwards Würzburg, abandoned by the imperial garrisons, surrendered, but Marienburg he was obliged to carry by storm.

In this place, which was believed to be impregnable, the enemy had collected a large store of provisions and ammunition, all of which fell into the hands of the Swedes.

the king found a valuable prize in the library of the Jesuits which he sent to Uppsala, while his soldiers found a still more agreeable one in the prelate's well-filled cellars.

Little aware, however, of the resources and the strength of his adversary, Wallenstein had not taken sufficient precautions to avert from himself the fate he was designing for others.

From the whole of the neighboring country the peasantry had fled with their property, and while little provision remained must be obstinately contested with the Swedes.

the king spared the magazines within the town as long as it was possible to provision his army from without and these forays produced constant skirmishes between the croats and the swedish cavalry of which the surrounding country exhibited the most melancholy traces the necessaries of life must be obtained sword in hand and the foraging parties could not venture out without a numerous escort and when this supply failed the town opened its magazines to the king but wallenstein had to support his troops from a distance a large convoy from bavaria was on its way to him with an escort of a thousand men gustavus adolphus having received intelligence of its approach immediately sent out a regiment of cavalry to intercept it and the darkness of the night favoured the enterprise the whole convoy with the town in which it was fell into the hands of the swedes the imperial escort was cut to pieces about twelve hundred cattle carried off and a thousand wagons loaded with bread which could not be brought away were set on fire seven regiments which wallenstein had sent forward to altdorp to cover the entrance of the long and anxiously expected convoy were attacked by the king who had in like manner advanced to cover the retreat of his cavalry and routed after an obstinate action being driven back into the imperial camp with a loss of four hundred men so many checks and difficulties and so firm and unexpected a resistance on the part of the king made the duke of friedland repent that he had declined to hazard a battle the strength of the swedish camp rendered an attack impracticable and the armed youth of nuremberg served the king as a nursery from which he could supply his loss of troops the want of provisions which began to be felt in the imperial camp as strongly as in the swedish rendered it uncertain which party would be first compelled to give way fifteen days had the two armies now remained in view of each other equally defended by inaccessible entrenchments without attempting anything more than slight attacks and unimportant skirmishes on both sides infectious diseases the natural consequence of bad food and a crowded population had occasioned a greater loss than the sword and this evil daily increased but at length the long-expected succors arrived in the swedish camp and by this strong reinforcement the king was now enabled to obey the dictates of his native courage and to break the chains which had hitherto fettered him In obedience to his requisitions, the Duke of Weimar had hastily drawn together a corps from the garrisons in Lower Saxony and Thuringia, which, at Schweinfurt and Franconia, was joined by four Saxon regiments, and at Kitzigan by the corps of the Rhine, which the Landgrave of Hesse and the Palatine of Berkenfeld dispatched to the relief of the king.

The Chancellor, Oxenstiern, undertook to lead this force to its destination.

Now, before we dive into what we're here for, where were you at in Germany?

I was in a town, uh, Schweinfurt.

Schweinfurt, Germany.

Uh, it wasn't too, uh-

At, uh, Conn Barracks.