Battle of Hundsfeld

Woodcut from Kronika Polska by Marcin Bielski, 1597

Date	August 24, 1109
Location	Hundsfeld (Psie Pole) near Wrocław in Silesia, Poland
Result	Polish victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of Poland

Holy Roman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Bolesław III Wrymouth

Henry V of Germany

The Battle of Hundsfeld or Battle of Psie Pole was allegedly fought on 24 August 1109 near the Silesian capital Wrocław between the Holy Roman Empire in aid of the claims of the exiled Piast duke Zbigniew against his ruling half-brother, Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland. It was recorded by the medieval Polish chronicler Bishop Wincenty Kadłubek of Kraków in his Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae several decades later.

The contemporary author Gallus Anonymus in his Gesta principum Polonorum, written between 1112 and 1118, mentioned several armed encounters with the Imperial forces led by King Henry V of Germany. After Bolesław had invaded the Bohemian territory of Duke Svatopluk, the German king in turn started a campaign in Poland and laid siege to the towns of Bytom Odrzański and Głogów, before he moved further down the Oder River and marched against Wrocław, though to no avail.

The site is now part of the Psie Pole district of modern Wrocław.

The name was also given by general Stanislaw Maczek, soldier to the area, where over a mile-long column of the German armored unit was destroyed at Hill 262.

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