Groeninga M.D. LXX.III

Article ID EUD4652

Title

Groeninga M.D. LXX.III

Decorative and detailed view of Groeningen in Sachsen Anhalt. Gröningen was first mentioned in a document in 934. Ecclesiastically, the area belonged to the bishopric of Halberstadt of the archbishopric of Mainz. Gröningen was at times the residence town of the Bishop of Halberstadt. As a result of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, the bishopric of Halberstadt fell as a secular principality in 1650 and the archbishopric of Magdeburg in 1680 to the Electorate of Brandenburg and the later Kingdom of Prussia, respectively. After the defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon annexed the areas of Prussia west of the Elbe to the Kingdom of Westphalia. Gröningen belonged to the Saal Department. After the Congress of Vienna, Gröningen became part of the Magdeburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816. The sugar factory Wiersdorff, Hecker & Co was built in Gröningen in 1864. Initially, it was in competition with a small sugar factory in Kloster Gröningen, which had already been built in 1848 and went out of business in 1876.

Year

c.

Artist

Münster (1489-1552)

Sebastian Münster (1489–1552) was a leading Renaissance cosmographer. His most famous work, the Cosmographia (1544), was a comprehensive description of the world with 24 maps, based on research dating back to 1528. Continuously revised, the 1550 edition already included many new maps. It was the first scientific yet accessible world description published in German, illustrated with numerous woodcuts by artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger. Between 1544 and 1650, the Cosmographia appeared in 46 editions (27 in German) and was translated into several languages. Münster’s work combined the knowledge of scholars, artists, and travelers and remained influential long after his death.

Historical Description

The area of today's state of Saxony-Anhalt was one of the cultural focal points in the German-speaking area in the early Middle Ages. Today's state capital Magdeburg was at that time one of the political centers in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The well-preserved architectural monuments from the Romanesque and Gothic periods, such as the cathedrals in Magdeburg and Halberstadt, the old town of Quedlinburg and many castles and churches, testify to the earlier importance of the entire region. The state was created in July 1947 through the unification of the Free State of Anhalt with the Prussian provinces of Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg, which the Free State of Prussia had created in April 1944 by dividing its province of Saxony.

Dimensions (cm)24 x 17
ConditionPerfect condition
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueWoodcut

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