The Battle of Wimpfen took place during the Palatinate campaign period of the Thirty Years' War on 6 May 1622 near Wimpfen.
Battle of Wimpfen, painting by S. Vrancx showing the magazine explosion
Image: Merian Theatrum Europaeum Schlacht bei Wimpfen 1622
Image: Schlacht bei wimpfen 17jhd
The Palatinate campaign, also known as the Spanish conquest of the Palatinate or the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War was a campaign conducted by the Imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire against the Protestant Union in the Lower Palatinate, during the Thirty Years' War.
Don Ambrogio Spinola, Imperial army commander