The Battle of Ludwigshafen (German: Gefecht von Ludwigshafen) and the subsequent bombardment of Ludwigshafen lasted from 15 to 18 June 1849 and was part of the Palatine Uprising and Baden Revolution. The young settlement of Ludwigshafen was badly damaged by the shells of the Baden artillery and the resulting fires.
Battle of Ludwigshafen
Part of Palatine Uprising
Ludwigshafen burns - 15 June 1849
Date
15–18 June 1849
Location
Ludwigshafen; Mannheim
Result
The Prussians occupied Ludwigshafen, but the crossing over the Rhine remained closed to them.
Belligerents
Baden-Palatine revolutionary army
Prussia
Commanders and leaders
Oberst Türr;[1] Otto von Corvin-Wiersbitzki[2]
Major Künzel
Strength
800
600
Casualties and losses
17 dead; 9 wounded[3]
2 dead; 6 wounded[4]
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Palatine Uprising (1849)
Kirchheimbolanden
Ludwigshafen
Rinnthal
^Commanded the Volkswehr regiment in Ludwigshafen; Corvin (1861), p. 265. Türr was Hungarian and previously an Oberwachtmeister in the Austrian Army (Corvin p. 246)
^for the bombardment
^Staroste (1852), p. 183; without loss at the Schiff bridge
^Staroste (1852), Appendix 18; p. 286
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