Kort Begryp van Duytsland, de drie Ryx Collegien. In hunne Wapens en Zittingen. Kreits verdelingen…

Title

Kort Begryp van Duytsland, de drie Ryx Collegien. In hunne Wapens en Zittingen. Kreits verdelingen…

Description

Copper Engraved chart with coat of arms, map and the constitutional division of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. This decorative engraving of the constitutional division of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation shows the coat of arms of the German Emperor Joseph I. and the ruling order in 1706. The archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne and the rulers of Bavaria, Poland, Prussia, Rheinpfalz, Brunswick-Luneburg, Mecklenburg Württemberg, Hesse, Baden, Anhalt-Dessau, Schleswig-Holstein, the abbots, bishops and abbesses. Below are listed: 9 counties and the independent cities, among other information. In the lower center is a small map of Germany.

ca. 1710

Artist

Ottens (1700-1750)

Joachim Ottens (1663 – 1719). Family of Publishers in Amsterdam and his sons Josua and Renier. Joachim Ottens .Joachim Ottens was the founder of the firm and worked before for Frederick de Wit . Joachim died only a few years later, his sons Renier and Joshua took over the firm and presided over its most prolific period.

Historical Description

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. In the High Middle Ages, the regional dukes, princes and bishops gained power at the expense of the emperors. Martin Luther led the Protestant Reformationagainst the Catholic Church after 1517, as the northern states became Protestant, while the southern states remained Catholic. The two parts of the Holy Roman Empire clashed in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). 1648 marked the effective end of the Holy Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern nation-state system, with Germany divided into numerous independent states, such as Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony.