Battle of Totenhöhe

Date20 November 1646

Location

Totenhöhe, Germany

Result Swedish–Hessian Victory

Battle of Totenhöhe
Part of the Thirty Years' War
Date 20 November 1646 Location Totenhöhe, Germany Result Swedish–Hessian Victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel	Holy Roman Empire Hesse-Darmstadt[1]
Commanders and leaders
Johann von Geyso Gustav Adolf Lewenhaupt	Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein
Strength
4,000 Hessians 2,000 Swedes	2 regiments 800 cavalry[2]
Casualties and losses
[3]	500 killed 800 captured

The Battle of Totenhöhe took place on 20 November 1646 during the Thirty Years' War, in the northwestern part of the town of Totenhöhe in Upper Hesse between Imperial and Hesse-Darmstadt troops on one side, and a Hesse-Kassel-Swedish army on the other. The battle ended in victory for Hesse-Kassel and Sweden.