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| '''Wahlstatt''' (]: '''Legnickie Pole'''), a small village near ] in Lower ] (Poland). Site of decisive battle between ] of the ] and a combined Polish-German force led by Duke Henry (]) on April 9, 1241, which marked the westernmost expansion of the Mongols into central Europe. Although the Mongols annihilated their opponents, they turned back to attend to the election of a new Grand Khan. | '''Wahlstatt''' (]: '''Legnickie Pole'''), a small village near ] in Lower ] (Poland). The German name means "battle site". Site of decisive battle between ] of the ] and a combined Polish-German force led by Duke Henry (]) on April 9, 1241, which marked the westernmost expansion of the Mongols into central Europe. Although the Mongols annihilated their opponents, they turned back to attend to the election of a new Grand Khan. | ||
| Prussian general Count ] (later Prince of Wahlstatt) beat a Napoleonic army under ] at the battle of the ] (formerly Katzbach), a small river running through Wahlstatt and Legnica, during the war of 1813/14. | Prussian general Count ] (later Prince of Wahlstatt) beat a Napoleonic army under ] at the battle of the ] (formerly Katzbach), a small river running through Wahlstatt and Legnica, during the war of 1813/14. | ||
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Wahlstatt (Polish: Legnickie Pole), a small village near Legnica in Lower Silesia (Poland). The German name means "battle site". Site of decisive battle between Mongols of the Golden Horde and a combined Polish-German force led by Duke Henry (Piast dynasty) on April 9, 1241, which marked the westernmost expansion of the Mongols into central Europe. Although the Mongols annihilated their opponents, they turned back to attend to the election of a new Grand Khan.
Prussian general Count Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (later Prince of Wahlstatt) beat a Napoleonic army under Marshal Macdonald at the battle of the Kaczawa (formerly Katzbach), a small river running through Wahlstatt and Legnica, during the war of 1813/14.
A baroque abbey built at Wahlstatt became a Prussian training institute for cadets (17??), then a boarding school for boys (1919), and after the transfer of Silesia to Poland a hospital for emotially disturbed patients (1949). /ams