Johann Pleitner

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Johann Pleitner (ok. 1604–1664). Inżynier wojskowy i żołnierz w służbie króla Władysława IV. Część druga: 1634–1648.
Johann Pleitner (ca. 1604–1664).Military engineer and solider in the employ of King Władysław IV. Part two: 1634–1648.
Jerzy Czajewski, Szczecin
"Summary/Abstract: In the autumn of 1634, Johann Pleitner was busy with the map of the Puck Bay area with the Hel Peninsula. On its basis, King Wladyslaw IV Vasa chose a place for the new fortified royal navy port Vladislausburg in the middle of the peninsula and fort Casimirschanz at its base, to prepare for a possible war with Sweden. These were built in 1635 according to Pleitner’s design and under his supervision. In 1634, along with the military engineer Friedrich Getkant and Colonel Eliasz Arciszewski, Pleitner was involved in upgrading fortifications of the towns in Royal Prussia (Pomerania). In the following year, he collaborated with engraver Wilhelm Hondius in Gdansk, providing him with sketches, maps and information for the first edition of his big copperplate Smolensk Delineation. Until 1646, he was an officer for special tasks and military engineering and also captain of the Royal Foot Guard (first Body Company). In 1638, was sent to the Hague foundry to learn the art of casting artillery pieces. Next year he fortified a couple of small strongholds along the left bank of the River Dnepr in Ukraine, with the southernmost fortress of Kudak that had to withhold Cossacks’ incursions into the Black Sea settlements of the Ottoman Empire. In 1646, in the rank of lieutenant colonel, he took part in the welcome to Gdańsk of Royal Princess Marie Louise Gonzaga, the bride of King Wladyslaw IV, and escorted her to Warsaw. During his stay in Gdansk, he married the Dutch Eva van Bancken, a daughter of the king’s agent in the city. Nominated a colonel of the dragons, he recruited soldiers in connection with the king’s plans to fight the Ottoman Empire. After the Sejm frustrated the king’s plans, he started to recruit German infantrymen to Polish auxiliary troops for France. In 1647 he landed with his regiment in France and took part in the Franco-Spanish War in Flanders. He transferred to the French army in the rank of a colonel of a dragoon regiment and was an informant of Cardinal Mazarin in Marshal de Turenne’s army."

JOHANN PLEITNER (OK. 1604–1664). INŻYNIER WOJSKOWY I ŻOŁNIERZ W SŁUŻBIE KRÓLA WŁADYSŁAWA IV. CZĘŚĆ TRZECIA: 1648–1664
JOHANN PLEITNER (CA. 1604–1664). MILITARY ENGINEER AND SOLDIER IN THE EMPLOY OF KING WŁADYSŁAW IV. PART THREE: 1648–1664
"ABSTRACT
During the Polish-Swedish War 1655–1660, in the rank of a Finnish infantry regiment, Johann Pleitner took part in warfare in Polish Livonia, Lithuania and Royal Prussia. As the commander of the Garrison of Brodnica, he circled the town and the castle with a ring of earthen fortifications.
He upheld the stronghold, an isolated Swedish pocket in southern Royal Prussia for nearly four years. He finally surrendered in late 1659 after the city was laid siege to by outnumbering Polish troops. Until the signing of the Treaty of Oliwa in 1660, he was for a short spell a prisoner of war in Prussian Königsberg. He was dispatched with his regiment back to Finland. Released from military service in 1661, he returned to Germany Reich. He was first employed by the Alsatian town Strasbourg (then a German Reich town) as colonel of a regiment of the town militia and fortification specialist. From the early 1664, he served his hometown Nuremberg as a colonel of a Franconian infantry regiment, dispatched in the summer to Hungary to help the House of Habsburg to fight the Ottoman Empire. He died in the very first assault of the Turkish troops onto the Christian army at St. Gotthard on the River Raab, 1 August 1664. His regiment, in panic upon the loss of their commander, retreated from the battlefield. Nuremberg’s propaganda commemorates Pleitner as an intrepid Franconian hero with an exquisite engraving with a versed epitaph."
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"Niedługo przed szwedzką agresją na Rzeczpospolitą, 17 stycznia 1655 r.28, Pleitner otrzymał upragniony patent pułkownika szwedzkiej armii czynnej i dowództwo regimentu piechoty fińskiej Björneborg (fin. Pori), składającej się z sześciu kompanii po ok. 110 żołnierzy. Poprzedni
dowódca, pułkownik Axel Stålarm, został mianowany gubernatorem fińskiej prowincji Wyborg i Nyslott. Pleitner dowodził regimentem sześć lat, aż do abdankowania w 1661 "

Google-käännös:
"Vähän ennen Ruotsin hyökkäystä Puola-Liettuaa vastaan, 17. tammikuuta 1655, Pleitner sai halutun Ruotsin aktiiviarmeijan everstin todistuksen ja suomalaisen jalkaväkirykmentin Björneborgin (suomeksi: Pori) komentajan. 110 sotilasta jokaisessa. Edellinen komentaja eversti Axel Stålarm nimitettiin Suomen Viipurin ja Nyslottin läänien kuvernööriksi. Pleitner johti rykmenttiä kuusi vuotta, kunnes hän luopui tehtävästä vuonna 1661"

https://old-smolensk.ru/?p=28885
Jerzy Czajewski: Article on the military engineer Johann Pleitner.
"Johann Pleitner was born in Nabburg (Bavaria-Ober Pfalz in Germany) to a well-off bourgeoise family. … He probably studied the art of fortification and mathematics at the University in Louvain in Belgium. At the age of 32 he joined Dutch forces of the stadholder of Holland, prince Frederick Hendrick of Nassau at the siege of Maastricht against the Spaniards in 1632. "
"Johann Pleitner syntyi Nabburgissa (Baijeri-Ober Pfalz Saksassa) varakkaaseen porvarilliseen perheeseen. … Hän luultavasti opiskeli linnoitustaidetta ja matematiikkaa Louvainin yliopistossa Belgiassa. 32-vuotiaana hän liittyi Hollannin stadholderin, Nassaun prinssin Frederick Hendrickin hollantilaisten joukkoihin Maastrichtin piirityksessä espanjalaisia ​​vastaan ​​vuonna 1632. Siellä hän valmisteli piirustuksia ja suunnitelmia Salomon Saveryn suureen etsaukseen kuuluisasta piirityksestä."

"The following year he was recruited by the Polish army, which was relieving Smolensk from Russian siege. There he commanded a special 600-man regiment of sappers, which destroyed enemy works and built its own field fortifications. In the meantime he prepared drawings and plans for the next two big etching by Salomon Savery and Willem Hondius depicting the Smolensk relief."
"Seuraavana vuonna hänet värvättiin Puolan armeijaan, joka vapautti Smolenskia Venäjän piirityksestä. Siellä hän komensi erityistä 600 miehen sappparirykmenttiä, joka tuhosi vihollisen töitä ja rakensi oman kenttälinnoituksensa. Sillä välin hän valmisteli piirustuksia ja suunnitelmia Salomon Saveryn ja Willem Hondiuksen kahdelle seuraavalle suurelle etsaukselle, jotka kuvaavat Smolenskin reliefiä."

Kuva:
Kön. Kupferstichcabinet Stuttgart / Kunsthistorisches Institut Tübingen / Univ. Bibl. Tübingen
https://tobias-bild.uni-tuebingen.de/#/detail/46a995a4-89fd-4520-97...
Künstler: Sandrart, Jacob 1708
Lizenz: CCO-public Domain