Voigtsdalum F.B.L. Ambthauss

Title

Voigtsdalum F.B.L. Ambthauss

Description

General view of Neubrück in Lower Saxony.

ca. 1646

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

Neubrück is located about ten kilometers northwest of the city of Braunschweig on the course of the river Oker and is largely characterized by the Oker floodplains, agriculture and the surrounding woodlands. Strictly speaking, it consists of two parts: Ersehof and the village of Neubrück. The first documentary mention dates back to 1321, when Neubrück Castle was completed as Castrum Brugghe. For a long time Neubrück was a border station of the state or duchy of Braunschweig and belonged to the former district of Braunschweig as an independent municipality until the Lower Saxonian territorial reform. In 1974 Neubrück was incorporated into the municipality of Wendeburg.