Carte Topographique D’Allemagne Contenante une Partie du Cercle de Thuringen Orientale, les Principautés de Gotta, Elsenach und Partie du Schwarzburg

Title

Carte Topographique D’Allemagne Contenante une Partie du Cercle de Thuringen Orientale, les Principautés de Gotta, Elsenach und Partie du Schwarzburg

Description

Map shows part of the East Thuringian district, the principalities of Gotha, Eisenach and includes part of Schwarzburg. From the "Grand Atlas d'Allemagne".

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Artist

Jaeger (1718-1790)

Johann Wilhelm Abraham, (b. 18.08.18 in Nuremberg; d. 02.09.1790 in Frankfurt am Main). He was a cartographer, publisher and entrepreneur. At the end of his life he was regarded as Germany's first cartographic publisher; he had far surpassed the older companies of Homann and Seutter. J. W. A. Jaeger was the father of Johann Christian Jaeger (1754-1822), publisher, bookseller and cartographer who continued the business.

Historical Description

Named after the Thuringii tribe who occupied it around AD 300, Thuringia came under Frankish domination in the 6th century. The Thuringian tribe formed during the Migration Period. The Saxon Otonen and the Sangerhausen became a center of the Holy Roman Empire in the 10th century. A separate Duchy of Thuringia cannot develop in this way. Greatest power in the Thuringian war at that time was the county of Weimar. It was only the Ludowinger rights that brought parts of Thuringia under their control. In the 12th century, the process of expanding the state in Thuringia was secured. It is called the first climbed cities such as Mühlhausen. The important noble families of medieval Thuringia were next to the dominant Wettin and the Ludowingern. In 1485, with the division of Leipzig, the wet lands were sold to the Albertiner rights in the east and the Ernestiner administration in the west. With the Reformation at the beginning of the 16th century, Thuringia became the center of German politics. Martin Luther made announcements of responsibility at the University of Erfurt and in the Augustinian monastery before he went to Wittenberg and the Reformation began. In 1640, two main Ernestine lines emerged: the House of Saxony-Weimar and the House of Saxony-Gotha. Subsequently, the phase of humanism began in Thuringia, in which the University of Erfurt also had a heyday. A center of German humanism was formed around Ulrich von Hutten and the reformers. It was only around 1780 that the ruling Duchess Anna Amalia and her son Karl August left the region again. They called poets such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Friedrich Schiller and their court, where they established Weimar Classicism as a German version of the classic literary movement. In 1833, the Customs and Trade Association of the Thuringian States was founded, which spurred industrial revolution in the country. As a result of industrialization, Thuringia became the cradle of social democracy. 1869 Greater August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht in Eisenach the Social Democratic Workers 'Party, in 1875 merged with the General German Workers' Association in Gotha to form the SPD. The Gotha program and the Erfurt program subsequently defined the goals of social democratic politics in Germany.