Exhibition commemorates the Battle of Hoflach

Created: 09/26/2022, 10:35 am

The Battle of Hoflach is shown in a fresco in the Hoflach Chapel.

An image of it has now been unveiled at the foot of the Hoflach hill.

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Nothing came of the big medieval festival this year, but at least the so-called Battle of Hoflach should be commemorated with an exhibition in Alling.

Alling – Shortly after the 600th anniversary of the skirmish, a selection of weapons, maps, and models was opened in the Gymnasium of the Gymnasium.

Not everything that can be seen on exhibits really has to do with the clash between two Bavarian armies on September 19, 1422.

As far as is known, the troops passed by the reconstructed castle stables of the nobles of Alling.

And the Parsburg, which is represented by a roof tile fragment, played no military role either.

A loan

But the exhibition organizers from the Alling working group of the Historical Association (HVF) also wanted to make the late Middle Ages something more tangible.

Hence the battle ax and the morning star, which were not found near Holach, but were on loan from the "free mercenary band of the Black Lance" in Grafrath.

And swords made of aluminum did not exist at that time either.

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In her welcoming speech, the association's chairwoman, Anna Ulrike Bergheim, not only mentioned that some copies had been seen that "didn't always exactly match" the 15th century.

All in all, an exhibition had to be put together from a "mass of 'maybe' and 'possibly'".

Because one knows neither where exactly the fight took place -- probably more between Puchheim and Holzkirchen than in the moor below Hoflach -- nor with absolute certainty whether there was a battle at all.

The earliest accounts were written half a century later.

But there is at least indirect evidence of a special event: the chapel of thanksgiving in Hoflach, which Duke Ernst certainly did not have built in the middle of the desert without good reason.

Inner Bavarian War

The inner-Bavarian war between a total of three enemy cousins ​​was certainly "not a golden age" in the 700-year rule of the Wittelsbachs, said working group leader Manfred Amann in his introductory words.

He was all the more pleased to be able to welcome a descendant of the warlike cousins: Luitpold Prince of Bavaria.

In his speech as patron, he noted that unfortunately the bad events in history, "the unfortunate time of the division of the country", are more remembered than the periods of peace in between.

The encounter at Hoflach was one of the last battles without the use of firearms, still a "fight man against man".

The exhibition portrays the main actors on display boards, shows the presumed troop movements on the basis of a map and a reproduction of the monumental fresco in the Hoflach chapel.

It will still be open on the next four weekends between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Then she goes on a journey, first to Eichenau.

(Olf Paschen)

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