Straubinga oppidum Bavariae

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Article ID EUD2349

Title

Straubinga oppidum Bavariae

Description

Map shows the city of Straubing at the river Donau.

Year

ca. 1595

Artist

Braun/Hogenberg (1572-1618)

Frans Hogenberg (1535 – 1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. Hogenberg was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg In 1568 he was banned from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva. He travelled to London, where he stayed a few years before emigrating to Cologne. He is known for portraits and topographical views as well as historical allegories. He also produced scenes of contemporary historical events. George Braun (1541-1622), a cleric of Cologne, was the principal editor of the "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". The first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum was published in Cologne in 1572. The sixth and the final volume appeared in 1617. This great city atlas, edited by Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, eventually contained 546 prospects, bird-eye views and map views of cities from all over the world. Braun (1541-1622), a cleric of Cologne, was the principal editor of the work, and was greatly assisted in his project by the close, and continued interest of Abraham Ortelius, whose Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570 was, as a systematic and comprehensive collection of maps of uniform style, the first true atlas.

Historical Description

Evidence of Freising's settlement history dates back only to the early Middle Ages, when the place was a ducal palace under the name Frigisinga in the first Bavarian tribal duchy (from 555 AD). Freising is the only known city foundation of the Bavarian Agilolfinger and thus the oldest city in Upper Bavaria. Towards the end of the older Bavarian tribal duchy, the Burgberg and the resulting town (civitas, oppidum) passed into ecclesiastical ownership in 788 and became the Domberg (cathedral hill). Freising developed into a clerical city, where priestly communities and monasteries, libraries, scriptoria and a cathedral school were established. Bishop Arbeo of Freising (723-784), who is considered the first writer of German origin, is named as the author of the Codex Abrogans, a Latin-Old High German glossary, whose copy preserved in St. Gall is considered the oldest surviving German book. The Freising bourgeoisie, which in the meantime had developed at the foot of the cathedral hill, was unable to free itself from episcopal rule, in contrast to Augsburg and Regensburg. Freising therefore remained for centuries a place dominated by the Domberg, which in the Middle Ages was known as the "mons doctus" (scholars' mountain) and became the cultural, artistic and religious center of Old Bavaria. Many places in Upper Bavaria are first mentioned in Freising tradition books for this reason. Medieval penmanship and book illumination reached an early heyday in Freising. In the late Middle Ages, Freising developed into a larger city, whose prince-bishops (high diocese since 1294) were especially concerned with the cultural heritage of their residence city. Freising experienced a cultural heyday under Bishop Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing und Liechteneck (1696-1727).

Place of Publication Cologne
Dimensions (cm)10 x 23,5
ConditionVery good
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueCopper print

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