Des Erzherzogthums Oestreich Land ob der Enns. Nro 126.

Title

Des Erzherzogthums Oestreich Land ob der Enns. Nro 126.

Description

The map shows the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns or Upper Austria with the cities of Steyr, Linz and many more.

ca. 1690

Artist

Weigel (1654-1725)

Christoph Weigel the Elder (1654-1725) was a German engraver, art dealer and publisher. Christoph Weigel learned the art of copperplate engraving in Augsburg. After various positions, including in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main, he acquired citizenship in Nuremberg in 1698. The first Weigel work from his own, successfully run publishing house in Nuremberg was Die Bilderlust from 1698. This publishing house published around 70 books and engravings during his lifetime. One of his most important works is the status book from 1698. In it, Weigel described and described more than two hundred types of handicrafts and services, each illustrated by a copper engraving, based on life. Because Weigel visited almost all the workshops himself, drew and observed on site, agreed the content of his articles with the master craftsmen and signed important equipment from the original. Weigel worked particularly brilliantly in the scraping and line manner. He was the first engraver to use a kind of machine for the underground. In Nuremberg he worked very closely with the imperial geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) to create his maps. His younger brother Johann Christoph Weigel ran an art dealership in Nuremberg around the same time and was also very successful.

Historical Description

In the Middle Ages, a large part of Upper Austria belonged to the Duchy of Styria for a long time. King Ottokar Přemysl of Bohemia separated the Traungau, which belonged to Styria, from it in 1254 in the Peace of Ofen and in 1261 in the Peace of Vienna and shaped the land into the Principality ob der Enns. In 1264 the name supra anasum ('Ob(erhalb) der Enns') was first mentioned in a document, and Konrad von Summerau is referred to in a document as a provincial judge of the province of Upper Austria, although at that time the designation Austria superior ('Upper Austria') still applied to Tyrol and Vorderösterreich. After 1490, the area gained a certain degree of independence in the Holy Roman Empire as the partial principality of Austria ob der Enns, and the estates held their own provincial assemblies in Linz. In the Habsburg division of 1564, Upper Austria, together with Lower Austria and the Bohemian lands, fell to the Roman-German Emperor Maximilian II. In 1779, in the Peace of Teschen, the Innviertel, previously part of the Duchy of Bavaria, became part of Upper Austria. During the Napoleonic Wars, Upper Austria was occupied several times by French troops. The provincial capital Linz also administered the province of Salzburg from 1816 to 1854.