Namur von der Maas Seiten nach Braband anzusehen

Title

Namur von der Maas Seiten nach Braband anzusehen

View of the city of Namur with title loop and index.

ca. 1725

Artist

Bodenehr (1631-1704)

Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder (1664-1758) was a German publisher, cartographer and engraver in Augsburg, who created city views of numerous German cities. His most famous work is the Atlas Curieux, first published in 1704. Around 1710, Bodenehr published the first engraved ground plan of the city of Passau, entitled Grundriss der Stätte Passau, Innstatt und Ilzstatt von Johann Stridbeck dem Jüngeren. He came from the Bodenehr family of engravers. His father Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631-1704) was already an engraver and publisher; his brothers Moritz (1665-1749) and Georg Conrad (1673-1710) and his son Gabriel Bodenehr the Younger (1705-1792) were also engravers.

Historical Description

As the province of Belgica - a name introduced by Caesar - what is now Belgium experienced many rulers. From the High Middle Ages to the early modern period, the cities of Flanders with their cloth industries represented one of the two centers of the European economy. Politically, the individual territories came under the House of Burgundy, which was inherited by the Habsburgs in 1477. In 1579 the Catholic Union of Arras and the Calvinist-Protestant Union of Utrecht were formed. The provinces of the Union of Utrecht broke away from Spain in 1581 and founded the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, whose independence was recognized in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 after the end of the Eighty Years War. The provinces of the Union of Arras, Flanders and Brabant were administered as the Spanish Netherlands by a Spanish governor. After the extinction of the Spanish Habsburgs (1700) and the resulting War of the Spanish Succession, the Austrian Netherlands came under the rule of the Austrian Habsburgs in 1714. As a result of the absolutist-centralistic efforts of the Austrian ruler Joseph II, the Brabant Revolution came in 1789 and the short-lived United Belgian States. Revolutionary France annexed the Austrian Netherlands between 1792 and 1794, followed by incorporation into the French Republic in 1795. At the Congress of Vienna (1815) the provinces were awarded to the Netherlands. After the Belgian Revolution, the country gained independence in 1830.