Battle of Wopławki

Battle of Wopławki
Part of the Lithuanian Crusade
Date7 April 1311
Location
Near Wopławki (German: Woplauken; Woplaucken)
Result Teutonic victory
Belligerents
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Teutonic Order
Commanders and leaders
Vytenis Heinrich von Plötzke
Strength
4,000 Lithuanian warriors 80 or 150 Teutonic Knights; Prussian militiamen (the number is unknown)
Casualties and losses
from 2,800 to 3,000 40 or 60 men in the first assault; total death toll is unknown

The Battle of Wopławki or Woplauken was fought on 7 April 1311 in the area near the village of Woplauken (Lithuanian - Voplaukis, now the Polish village of Wopławki), north-east of Kętrzyn (former Rastenburg). Belarusian historian Ruslan Gagua states in Annalistic Records on the Battle of Wopławki Archived 2020-06-26 at the Wayback Machine The battle definitely had become a major and significant one by medieval standards during the military confrontation of the Teutonic Order and the then Lithuania, according to The Nature of the Conduct of Warfare in Prussian and Lithuanian Borderlands at the Turn of the 13th and 14th Centuries by Ruslan Gagua.