In August 1813, the Napoleonic troops under Marshal Oudinot wanted to take Berlin and thus obtain a favorable starting point for negotiations with the Allies.

When securing the camp, they paid particular attention to the east, because they feared attacks by Cossacks of the Russian army in front of Belzig.

Energetic officers like Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich August von der Marwitz succeeded time and again in putting the units in order.

After 5 p.m., heavy rain barely allowed gunfire and a bloody scuffle broke out on a garden wall in the north of Hagelberg.

Russian Cossacks under General Alexander Chernyshyov, who were quartered in nearby Belzig, were able to decide the battle in favor of Prussia by intervening.