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Coat of arms
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الإحداثيات: 48°36′N 10°33′E
البلد	ألمانيا
الولاية	باڤاريا
Admin. region	Schwaben
District	Dillingen
الحكومة
• العمدة	Stephan Karg (CSU)
المساحة
• الإجمالي	37٫45 كم² (14٫46 ميل²)
المنسوب	416 m (1٬365 ft)
منطقة التوقيت	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	89420
Dialling codes	09074
لوحة السيارة	DLG
الموقع الإلكتروني	www.hoechstaedt.de

Höchstädt an der Donau (Swabian: Hechstädt) is a town in the district of Dillingen, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated near the banks of the Danube. It consists of the following suburbs: Höchstädt an der Donau, Deisenhofen, Oberglauheim, Schwennenbach and Sonderheim. The town is the seat of the municipal association Höchstädt an der Donau, which includes the towns Blindheim, Finningen, Lutzingen and Schwenningen.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth century, the wealthy mercantile family Höchstetter, which came from the town, was part of the mercantile patriciate of Augsburg.

In the early 18th century, the town was the site of two battles. The First Battle of Höchstädt (ألمانية: Erste Schlacht von Höchstädt) on 20 September 1703 cost over 5,000 lives. A year later in 1704, the Battle of Blenheim or Second Battle of Höchstädt (ألمانية: Zweite Schlacht von Höchstädt) occurred between the British and Austrian forces (led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy) on one side, and Bavarian and French troops (commanded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and the Comte de Tallard) on the other side.

The carnage of the Battle of Blenheim was so horrific (over 20,000 men had died by the end of the day) that farmers are said still to dig up skulls from the fields today, as described in the poem "After Blenheim", written by Robert Southey, which tells about children finding the skull of one of the

Many thousand men said he
Were slain in that great victory

In June 1800, the armies of the French First Republic, under command of Jean Victor Moreau, fought Austrian regulars and Württemberg contingents, under the general command of Pál Kray. Kray had taken refuge in the fortress at Ulm; Moreau diverted his army to approach Ulm from the east and, after a small group of men captured a foothold on the northern bank of the Danube, his forces were able to move against the fortress on both sides of the river. At this battle, the culmination of the Danube Campaign of 1800, Moreau forced Kray to abandon Ulm and withdraw into eastern Bavaria.

Diorama of the battle in the Heimat museum in Höchstädt. The foreground depicts the fierce fighting in and around Blindheim.

 External links

• The Renaissance castle of Höchstädt