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Its good traffic connections, however, led to Kirchhain's being occupied a few times during the Thirty Years' War, becoming for a time the headquarters of various armies, and thereby having to suffer as troops were billeted in the town. In 1636, about 12,000 to 14,000 soldiers were being housed in and around the town.
May 9, 2024 · Thirty Years’ War, (1618–48), in European history, a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe, and, when it ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the map of Europe had been ...
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In that year, that is, 1637, I still had two cows, which I had kept with God’s help. But I could not keep them in Stausebach, only in Kirchhain. So we had to take the fodder there that year and went with the city’s livestock to the meadow, because Darmstadt at that point had a truce with the Swedes and Hessians, so we could stay in Kirchhain.
Jan 12, 2021 · The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618–1648. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. Presents the Thirty Years War as both a constitutional conflict within the Holy Roman Empire and a religious conflict. This was in contrast to prevailing scholarship at the time, which argued that this war was a social and economic crisis ...
The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
Nov 9, 2009 · The Thirty Years’ War was a 17th-century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe. It remains one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history, with more than 8 million ...
Jun 1, 2008 · What has been defined here as the Thirty Years War had its causes in central Europe, specifically disputes over the religious and political balance in the Empire and the Habsburg hereditary lands. This did not make the conflict a ‘parochial' affair. The sheer extent of the Empire ensured a large theatre of operations.
