Capture of Oppenheim

Capture of Oppenheim
Part of the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War
Date 14 September 1620 Location Oppenheim, Electorate of the Palatinate (present-day Germany) Result Spanish victory[1][2]
Belligerents
Palatinate	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Joachim Ernst	Ambrogio Spinola
Strength
24,000 (Joachim Ernst) 1,000 (Oppenheim)[1]	22,000[3]
Casualties and losses
Few dead or wounded 800–1,000 captured[4]	Minor[4]

The Capture of Oppenheim or the Spanish capture of Oppenheim took place on 14 September 1620, at Oppenheim, Electorate of the Palatinate, between the Spanish army commanded by Don Ambrosio Spinola, Marquis of the Balbases, against the forces of the Electoral Palatinate led by Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, during the Palatinate campaign, in the context of the Thirty Years' War.^[1] The Spanish troops under Spinola, with a great maneuver of distraction over Worms, deceived the Protestant army of Joachim Ernst, and captured the important town of Oppenheim without too much difficulty, causing a severe blow to the Protestant forces.^[4][5]