siege, early modern

Relief of Konstanz

Name: Relief of Konstanz
Location: Switzerland

Relief of Konstanz was a siege conducted in 1633 in what is now Switzerland. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. It was part of the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War, which ran from 1630 to 1635. The recorded result: Peace of Prague.

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Fought1633

WhereSwitzerland47.663N, 9.175E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomePeace of Prague

BelligerentsSwedish Empire; Electorate of Saxony (from 1631); Heilbronn League (from 1633); Hesse-Kassel; Brandenburg-Prussia; Brunswick-Lüneburg; Magdeburg; 22px PomeraniaagainstHabsburg Monarchy; Spanish Empire; Catholic League; Bavaria; Lorraine

Casualties and losses86,300 killed, captured and desertedand80,760 killed, captured and deserted

Part ofSwedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War1630 to 1635

Record

Date	1633 (year precision) to 1633
Place	Switzerland 47.663N, 9.175E
Kind	Siege, early modern
Strength	1630: 70,600; 13,000 men landing in Germany; 10,000 infantry; 3,000 cavalry; 24,600 men garrisoning Sweden; 33,000 German allies and mercenaries; 1632: 140,000; 25,000 Swedes and Finns in Germany; ~115,000 German allies and mercenaries	1632: 110,000 pro-Imperial troops in Germany
Casualties and losses	86,300 killed, captured and deserted	80,760 killed, captured and deserted
Commanders	Gustavus Adolphus Axel Oxenstierna Johan Banér Lennart Torstensson Gustav Horn Bernard of Saxe-Weimar	Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor Albrecht von Wallenstein Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim Federico Savelli

Placed at its recorded location; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Stockach 1800, 18 km S
Battle of Lake Constance 15 BC, 20 km E
Battle of Möerskirch 1800, 27 km E
Battle of Vögelinsegg 1403, 33 km SE
Battle of Ostrach 1799, 35 km NE

In the same war

Before: Sack of Magdeburg 20 May 1631

Elsewhere in 1633

Relief of Konstanz is one of 1,470 engagements of the 17th century in the atlas and one of 66 in present-day Switzerland.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q135655576, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Relief of Konstanz (1633), revision 1379631827, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.