Kleinwelka im Kriegsjahr 1813 und während der Schlacht bei Bautzen
The article contains an extract from a report about the wartime events of 1813, from the perspective of a Kleinwelka sister, by Anna Christina Schneider, the daughter of the blacksmith Nikolaus Schneider. The notes about what happened in Kleinwelka each day, the description of the soldiers and their...
| Published in: | Unitas Fratrum |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Herrnhuter-Verlag
2018
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Unitas Fratrum
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBB German language area KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Battle of Bautzen, Germany, 1813
B Bautzen (Germany) History B Schneider, Anna Christina B War diaries B Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Campaigns Germany |
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| Summary: | The article contains an extract from a report about the wartime events of 1813, from the perspective of a Kleinwelka sister, by Anna Christina Schneider, the daughter of the blacksmith Nikolaus Schneider. The notes about what happened in Kleinwelka each day, the description of the soldiers and their activities in the village, the comings and goings of the units of troops, the plundering and the harassment of the inhabitants, the fate of individual residents of Kleinwelka and the surrounding villages, Napoleon's cultic status, the Russian soldiers, but also the sisters' courage and their determination to survive, the constant excessive demands on the blacksmiths to shoe ever more horses, and the struggles to overcome the terrible starvation of both inhabitants and soldiers - all of this is described in unadorned but therefore all the more authentic language. There is a surprising meeting of minds between Russian soldiers and the Schneider family prompted by the picture of the Saviour that hangs in their living room. The climax of the conflict is the battle that took place between Bautzen and Kleinwelka on 20 May. It ends with countless houses and fields laid waste, and with thousands of wounded soldiers, who have to be cared for and brought to field hospitals. The report, in the form of a diary, is introduced by Helmfried Klotke with information about the Schneider family and Kleinwelka. |
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| ISSN: | 0344-9254 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Evangelische Brüder-Unität, Unitas Fratrum
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