Naval war on Lake Constance


The naval war on Lake Constance was a series of conflicts that took place on Lake Constance, beginning in 1632, in the context of the Thirty Years' War. At that time various powers ruled different parts of the shoreline: in the north and east was Roman Catholic, Habsburg Anterior Austria; in the northwest and west the troops of the Protestant Duchy of Württemberg with their allies from Kingdom of Sweden and Kingdom of France. These various powers sought, for strategic reasons, to exercise their hegemony over the area of Lake Constance. Only the partly Catholic and partly Protestant southern shore which belonged to the Old Swiss Confederacy maintained an uneasy neutrality due to their divided loyalties.
The changing course of this post-war period of the Thirty Years' War brought no clear success to either party. The Protestant side could not seriously threaten imperial possessions; the Imperialists succeeded in maintaining their positions on the whole and to inflict telling losses on their enemy. Swedish/Württemberg naval domination in the last two years of the war had no wide-reaching significance by that stage.

Literature

  • Carmen Galenschovski: Bodensee. 8th edn. Baedeker/Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Ostfildern 2005, ; Kapitel Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg zum Wiener Kongreß. pp. 36 ff.
  • Karl Gogg: Österreichs Kriegsmarine 1440–1848. Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg et. 1972,, pp. 20 ff.
  • Heribert Küng: Vor 350 Jahren: Ende des dreißigjährigen Krieges in der Region Bodensee-Alpenrhein. In: Montfort. 50. Jg. 1998, 3rd issue, pp. 185 ff.
  • Johann Sporschil: Der Dreissigjährige Krieg. G. Westermann, Brunswick, 1843, pp. 684 ff.
  • Eberhard Fritz: Konrad Widerholt, Kommandant der Festung Hohentwiel. Ein Kriegsunternehmer im europäischen Machtgefüge. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 76. pp. 217–268.
Category:1630s conflicts
Category:1640s conflicts
Category:1630s in the Holy Roman Empire
Category:1640s in the Holy Roman Empire
Category:Thirty Years' War
Category:Military history of Austria
Category:Naval history of Germany
Category:Wars involving Württemberg
Category:History of the French Navy
Category:Military history of Sweden
Category:Wars involving Switzerland
Category:Lake Constance