Siege of Kraków (1657)
| Siege of Kraków (1657) | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Northern War and The Deluge | |||||||
Siege of Kraków, 1657 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Swedish Empire Principality of Transylvania |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Holy Roman Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Paul Wirtz János Bethlen |
Jerzy Lubomirski Melchior von Hatzfeldt | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,500 Swedes and 2,500 Transilvanians | Unknown number of Poles, some 17,000 Austrians | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The siege of Kraków was one of the military conflicts of the Swedish and Transylvanian invasion of Poland, which took place in the summer of 1657. The royal city of Kraków, had been occupied for two years by a Swedish-Transylvanian garrison led by Paul Wirtz and János Bethlen. It was besieged by Polish Army of Hetman Jerzy Lubomirski, supported by soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire under Austrian field marshal Melchior von Hatzfeldt.