Temperantia odit ebrietatem. 50 / Vicegrad in Ungarn

Title

Temperantia odit ebrietatem. 50 / Vicegrad in Ungarn

Description

Copperplate engraving of the town of Blindenburg/Visegrad in Hungary with the fortress of Blindenburg on Sibrik Hill and Bacchus, the god of wine, in the foreground. From Meissner's treasure chest (Thesaurus Philo-Politicus) published by Eberhard Kieser, Frankfurt am Main.

ca. 1624

Artist

Meissner (1585-1625)

Daniel Meisner, also known as Meissner or Meißner, was born in 1585 in Komatau, Bohemia and died on 11 March 1625 in Frankfurt am Main. He was a German poet and engraver and co-author of the Thesaurus Philopoliticus or Political Treasury, which was first published in 1623 under the name Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. This is: Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren unnd bestendiger Freund with 52 views was published by Eberhard Kieser (Frankfurt, 1583-1631), followed by the second edition in 1624-31 with 416 views and finally in 1638-43 with the new title Sciographia cosmica the last edition by Paulus Fürst (Nuremberg, 1608-66) with about 830 views and moralising sayings in Latin and German.

Historical Description

The Romans recognized the strategic location of the town, which was called Pons Navatus in ancient times, and built the Visegrád-Sibrik fort on this site to monitor the Danube border of their province of Pannonia. Visegrád was part of the Avar Empire until the 9th century. In 1325, Charles I moved his residence from Temesvár to Visegrád. Even when Buda became the Hungarian capital in 1408, Visegrád retained its importance and was further expanded. The city experienced its heyday under the rule of Matthias Corvinus and his wife Beatrix of Aragon. Turkish troops conquered the castle in 1529 and almost completely destroyed it around 1685 on their retreat. Under Habsburg rule, German families settled in the 18th century and brought Visegrád an economic boom.