Inuentarii Sueciae / Wormbs.

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Article ID EUD5047

Title

Inuentarii Sueciae / Wormbs.

Description

Magnificent general view of the city of Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Year

ca. 1650

Artist

Gottfried

Historical Description

Worms, Civitas Vangionum, is an independent city in the southeastern Rhineland-Palatinate and is located directly on the left bank of the Rhine. Founded by the Celts, the city vies with Augsburg, Trier and Kempten for the title of the oldest city in Germany. The oldest surviving form of the town's name (Borbetomagus or Bormetomagus) is of Celtic origin and is traced back to a term for water or spring. The urban area of Worms was first settled by arable farmers and cattle breeders in the Neolithic period around 5000 BC. The urban area of Worms was first settled in the Neolithic period (Neolithic) around 5000 BC by arable farmers and cattle breeders. At the Court Day in Worms in May 961, Otto the Great had his seven-year-old son Otto II elevated to co-king. The Salians marked the beginning of the city's rise to its greatest splendor. In 1074 it was granted freedom from customs duties. In 1076, another Court Day was held here, at which King Henry IV declared Pope Gregory VII deposed and was immediately banned from the church for this - one of the consequences of these events was then the journey to Canossa. In 1495, another Imperial Diet was held under King Maximilian, at which the Imperial Tax, the Imperial Chamber Court and the prohibition of feuding under the Eternal Peace were introduced. By this time, the city had already passed the peak of its economic prosperity. As in many other cities, the new ideas of the Reformation spread early and quickly in Worms, especially in the spiritually free city climate. Important in this context was the Diet of Worms held in 1521, where Martin Luther defended his writings and Reformation knowledge against Emperor Charles V. Worms became a center and experimental field of the Reformation: in 1524, a German Protestant mass was printed here for the first time, and in 1526 William Tyndale published the first English version of the New Testament in Worms. In 1689, the city was destroyed by troops of King Louis XIV in the War of the Palatinate Succession. From 1792 to 1814 Worms belonged to the First French Republic and the First Empire, and since 1815 to the Grand Duchy of Hesse as part of the Province of Rhine-Hesse. The surveyor Konrad Schredelseker worked out the first cadastral plan of Worms from 1809 to 1810 "Atlas géometrique de la ville de Worms.

Dimensions (cm)28 x 14 cm
ConditionPerfect condition
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueCopper print

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