In a battle lasting several hours, the Prussian 26th Infantry Brigade repulsed attacks by the 3rd (Hessian) Division of the VIII.

On the other hand, only a 50,000-strong army under General von Falckenstein was deployed against the West and South German allies of Austria, which essentially consisted of four divisions.

They had marched north from Schweinfurt or Frankfurt am Main in order to unite there for joint operations with the Hanoverian troops .

Corps had marched back to Frankfurt after the Bavarian defeat at Dermbach von Fulda, where they wanted to meet the VII.

On 12 July the approximately 9,000-strong 3rd (Hessian) Division was sent by rail to Aschaffenburg to secure the crossings over the Main, followed by an Austrian brigade and artillery laterforwarded.

On 13 July the Hessian division therefore only ordered a brigade under General Frey to clear up the Spessart crossings at Hain [de] and Waldaschaff.

The Hessian Major General Frey,[2] after his brigade had arrived in Weiberhof at about 12 o'clock, sent 1 battalion each with cavalry up the valleys of the Aschaff and Laufach.

At about 5 a.m. the two Hessian reconnaissance departments were back in Weiberhof, where they moved outpost lines towards Fronhofen and - along the railway embankment - towards Schmerlenbach, Unterbessenbach and Steigeradvanced 25th Brigade under General von Kummer.

Wrangel's brigade was in the field camp near Laufach and originally only pushed the Fusilier Battalion 55 to an outpost position on the western outskirts of Frohnhofen, where it secured the 500 m wide valley and the flat northern slopes.

The four advanced guns northeast of Weiberhof also soon cleared the field and withdrew to the Geißenberg, as they were threatened by Prussian riflemen who hesitantly followed the Hessians.

To the north of it, the 4th regiment, which was deployed in the second meeting, succeeded, which swung to the left to achieve a small break-in in Fronhofen near the bowling alley.

55, then went to the counter-attack and urged the alaq at the bowling alley of the inn Hesse after a short melee of Frohnhofen before the second meeting of the 4th (Hessian) regiment could come up for reinforcement.

With the crossing of the Main, the operations of the Prussian troops against the VIII Federal Corps were no longer obstructed by any major terrain.

It was not possible to transport the fallen Hessian soldiers away due to the summer temperatures and the associated rapid decomposition process of the corpses, which is why mass graves were dug right next to the bowling alley.

[6] Lieutenant General Carl Freiherr Pergler von Perglas was recalled on August 11 as commander of the Hessian division, although this was officially done for health reasons.

[8] The Hessian War Minister Friedrich von Wachter asked on 6 December 1866 to resign, which then led to his replacement.

Numerous houses in the village had bullet holes in the walls, the old bowling alley was no longer usable after the battle and was exposed to decay.

The inn of the bowling alley is now the restaurant "Zum alten Brauhaus" with decorative red and white shutters, in which there is a reference to the battle: When you enter the building, you can see three cones worked into the plaster of the wall above the counter with a ball.