✦ History

Part of Austro-Prussian War

Battle of Dermbach

July 4, 1866 · Battle of Dermbach

Result Prussian Victory

The first clash of the Prussian western army with the Bavarians, in the Rhön.

On the map Contemporaries

Prussia and allies

Austria and allies

Kingdom of Prussia
Kingdom of Bavaria
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein military commander August Karl von Goeben military commander Cäsar Rüstow military commander
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
48
Wounded
274
Strength
15,000
Killed
c. 5,100

Units

Prussian Army of the Main (1866) 13th Division (German Empire)
Bavarian army (1866)