Coat of arms of Ingolstadt.
Ingolstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈɪŋɡɔlˌʃtat]; locally [ˈɪŋl̩ʃtɔːd]) is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the centre of Bavaria. As at 31 March 2011, Ingolstadt had 125.407 residents. It is part of the Munich Metropolitan Area, which has a total population of more than 5 million.
Ingolstadt in 1632[]
In 1632, the Swedish Army bypassed Ingolstadt when it went into the Upper Palatinate, and in 1634, it remained a Bavarian outpost north of the Danube. In March of 1634, Johan Banér laid siege to the city. It fell in September, when the Bavarian commander, Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein, opened the city to Banér in exchange for a bribe and the offer of a job.[1]
In January of 1636, the Bavarians re-took the city after its defenses were subverted by agents of Axel Oxenstierna.[2] During the course of that battle, Captain Tom Simpson was forced out of the city with the remainder or survivors of his regiment.
By April of 1636, most Bavarian forces had been withdrawn from Ingolstadt, as Maximilian of Bavaria was convinced that Mike Stearns would bypass the city and take the Third Division of the USE Army directly to Munich. This left the garrison under Timon von Lintelo badly outnumbered by the advancing forces of the USE Army and the SoTF National Guard. However, Ingolstadt fell to the USE after a psychological operation. Leaflets promising amnesty to all Bavarian soldiers except those in the former USE Army unit which had let the Bavarians in were dropped from the airship Pelican, after which soldiers in that unit began to leave. Those in other units, knowing that Bavarian-employed troops were hated in central Europe, feared they would be given "Magdeburg quarter" despite promises of amnesty, and also began to leave the city. Eventually, the Bavarians withdrew from Ingolstadt before the USE forces arrived, and the city was occupied by SoTF National Guard units under Heinrich Schmidt.
References[]
- ↑ 1634: The Bavarian Crisis
- ↑ 1636: The Saxon Uprising; Ring of Fire III, "Four Days on the Danube". It is not stated, but is implied, that Bavaria holds the city as of March, 1636, as there is no mention of it being re-taken by the USE.