Carte du Cours du Danube, audessus et au-dessus d’Höchstett

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Article ID EUD4944

Title

Carte du Cours du Danube, audessus et au-dessus d’Höchstett

Description

Map shows the course of the Danube in Swabia from Lauingen via Dillingen, past Höchstädt, Blindheim and Gremheim. Published by A. H. Dufour.

Year

ca. 1840

Artist

Dyonnet (1822-1880)

Charles Dyonet was a successful and highly productive French engraver. He engraved for various publishers, including Vuillemin and Dufour.

Historical Description

Swabia also Suabia or Svebia, is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany. The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, whose inhabitants interchangeably were called Alemanni or Suebi. A new Swabian League (Schwäbischer Bund) was formed in 1488, opposing the expansionist Bavarian dukes from the House of Wittelsbach and the revolutionary threat from the south in the form of the Swiss. The territory of Swabia as understood today emerges in the early modern period. It corresponds to the Swabian Circle established in 1512. The Old Swiss Confederacy was de facto independent from Swabia from 1499 as a result of the Swabian War, while the Margraviate of Baden had been detached from Swabia since the twelfth century. Fearing the power of the greater princes, the cities and smaller secular rulers of Swabia joined to form the Swabian League in the fifteenth century. The League was quite successful, notably expelling the Duke of Württemberg in 1519 and putting in his place a Habsburg governor, but the league broke up a few years later over religious differences inspired by the Reformation, and the Duke of Württemberg was soon restored. The region was quite divided by the Reformation. While secular princes such as the Duke of Württemberg and the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, as well as most of the Free Cities, became Protestant, the ecclesiastical territories (including the bishoprics of Augsburg, Konstanz and the numerous Imperial abbeys) remained Catholic, as did the territories belonging to the Habsburgs (Further Austria), the Sigmaringen branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and the Margrave of Baden-Baden.

Place of Publication Paris
Dimensions (cm)21,5 x 29 cm
ConditionPerfect condition
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueSteel engraving

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