The 1632 Battle of Lützen and its specific details are re-evaluated after recovering and organizing several thousand battle-related artifacts recovered during systematic four-year metal detector survey, re-considering all written or pictorial historical sources and by including a landscape reconstruction and tactical analysis based on 17th century

André Schürger conducted a four-year archaeological battlefield research project on the 1632 Lützen battlefield, recovering and documenting thousands of battle artefacts. He intensified and academically ordered his research on the Battle of Lützen during his PhD studies in the Department of Conflict Archaeology, University of Glasgow. His fieldwork on the battlefield and documentary research into the battle, its personae, and material culture profited from his earlier studies in history and archaeology at the University of Cologne, his tactical training as a Bundeswehr officer, and his many years of experience as a professional field archaeologist.