Grundtriss der belägerung und Statt Frankfurt wie solch von Ihr Churf: Durchl: neben Genr. Banner dem 13. May belägert und den volgenden 23.erobert…

Title

Grundtriss der belägerung und Statt Frankfurt wie solch von Ihr Churf: Durchl: neben Genr. Banner dem 13. May belägert und den volgenden 23.erobert…

Description

Map shows the citymap of the siege de Frankfurt at the river Oder

ca. 1650

Artist

Merian (1593-1650)

Matthäus Merian (1593 – 1650) , born in Basel, learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. He married his daughter, Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel, only to return three years later to Frankfurt, where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, who later published her the famous and wellknown studies of flowers, insects and butterflies.

Historical Description

After 1200, a merchant settlement developed on a valley sand island on a narrow part of the Oder River, today's Frankfurt. The Schultheiss Gottfried von Herzberg negotiated with Margrave Johann I at Spandau Castle about the granting of the town charter. Margrave Johann I issued the document for the foundation of the town on Saturday, 1253. Frankfurt was mentioned as a participant in the records of the Lübeck Day Journey of 1430. Only members of the Hanseatic League were allowed to participate in the Tagfahrten - consequently, Frankfurt was a member of the Hanseatic League from that year at the latest. At the end of January 1506, teaching at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt began with the humanistic lecture of the first "appointed" teacher Axungia. The Thirty Years' War first reached the city in April 1626, and after the Thirty Years' War ended in 1648, the university regained its importance, with 250 students enrolled that year. In 1811, the final news of the relocation of the University to Breslau reached the Frankfurt people. The reason was the University of Berlin, opened the previous year by Wilhelm von Humboldt. The Frankfurt district, formed in 1816, consisted of the city of Frankfurt as well as areas that had previously belonged to the Lebus district and the Sternberg district, including the suburbs of Carthaus, Kliestow, Booßen, Buschmühle, Lossow, Rosengarten, Schiffersruh, Tschetschnow and Ziegelei. The district administration office for the Lebus district was also located in Frankfurt.