March – August 1432
Brandenburg and Silesia, 1432
On 18 March 1432 Hussite field troops, 7,000 to 8,000 men by German accounts, ride north through Lusatia into the Mark of Brandenburg, the land of Frederick of Brandenburg, who led the crusade of 1431. They fight the Brandenburgers at Müllrose on 10 April and twice attack Frankfurt on the Oder without taking it. They plunder Lebus, and on 17 April they burn the suburbs of Müncheberg.
The town wall and the Berlin Gate tower of Müncheberg, whose suburbs the Hussites burned on 17 April 1432Wikimedia Commons, Kvikk, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Müncheberg Stadtmauer mit Berliner Torturm.JPG)
From Müncheberg a detachment of 1,000 to 1,500 rides by Strausberg to Bernau, north of Berlin, and stays before the town from the evening of 22 April to 24 April. Bernau later tells of a victory in which its women pour hot porridge on the Hussites from the walls, a story the records of 1432 do not contain. The Hussites go home through Lusatia by 5 May.
The town wall and the Powder Tower of Bernau, before which the Hussites stood in April 1432Wikimedia Commons, Neuköllner, CC BY 4.0 (Stadtmauer und Pulverturm in Bernau bei Berlin, Landkreis Barnim, Brandenburg.jpg)
The ride also crosses the western edge of Silesia, where Hussite garrisons hold towns taken on earlier rides. In June 1430 Prokop sent help to the garrison of Niemcza, and on 19 November 1430 he took Otmuchów. On 23 August 1432 Elector Frederick II of Saxony makes a separate peace with the Hussites for two years.
Sources
- Uwe Tresp, “Hussiteneinfall in die Mark Brandenburg 1432”, in Historisches Lexikon Brandenburgs (2018).
- František Šmahel, Die Hussitische Revolution (2002), vol. 3.
- Hussitenkriege, German Wikipedia.
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