The Danish forces, meeting no resistance, take over Wolgast on August 14 (O.S.)/August 24 (N.S.).

After the imperial garrison is expelled, Christian is met by overwhelming support from the local population to turn Wolgast into a fortress like Stralsund.

Reinforcements are on their way from Sweden.

Christian now awaits Wallenstein, who withdraws from the siege of Stralsund and heads east to face the Danish force.

The battlefield Christian has chosen is half a mile west of the town, secured by the coast and marshes.

Christian has five thousand to six thousand troops on the battlefield, including fifteen hundred cavalry and some four hundred Scots from the Donald Mackay regiment, and the infantry organized in six regiments.

Wallenstein advances with a force of seven thousand to eight thousand troops, consisting of thirty-three infantry companies, twenty cuirassier companies, and eleven guns.

Wallenstein, attacking on August 22 (O.S.)/September 2 (N.S.), wipes out the Danish flank, killing one thousand of Christian IV's troops and capturing another six hundred.

Thereafter, he is able to retake the town, where five hundred Danish troops are now isolated from the main army and have no choice but to surrender.

Wolgast, with its residence of the Pomeranian dukes, is badly burned and looted.

Only nightfall allows Christian and some of his troops to retreat and board their vessels.

The imperial defenders of Wolgast, in charge since the battle of 1628, are defeated on August 7 in the town, and on August 25 in the castle of Wolgast.

While Gustav’s success is to be longer lasting than Christian’s, he will return to Wolgast on July 15, 1633 in a casket, when his body is embarked for the final transfer to Sweden.

George William, Elector of Brandenburg, had joined the obsequies in Stettin on May 31, 1633, and proposed joining the Alliance of Stettin if he would in turn participate in the Pomeranian succession.

Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, the last living member of the House of Pomerania, had suffered a stroke already in April 1631.

Sweden has either approved nor rejected the Brandenburgian offer.

A "regiment constitution" on November 19, 1634, reforms the administration of the duchy of Pomerania.

The two governments in Wolgast and Stettin resulting from the partition of 1569 had already been merged on March 18.

The new constitution reforms this government to consist of a proconsul, a president, and seven members.