Historic Stuttgart city maps

First Stuttgart city map with house numbering, 1794.

Historic Stuttgart city maps as well as old views, images and address books are indispensable tools for researching Stuttgart's past. Important historical city maps and city map-like views of Stuttgart are presented here.

The Stuttgart historian Gustav Wais published in 1941 and 1954 a basic work on historical Stuttgart city maps.

Note: Schefold numbers, for example “Schefold 8123”, refer to Max Schefold's catalog “Old Views from Württemberg” ( #Schefold 1957 ).

Gustav Wais

His hometown owes his hometown not only the city ​​lapidarium with many valuable stone witnesses of the Stuttgart past, but also standard works in which he compiled the most important testimonies about "old Stuttgart" (up to the year 1800) to the Stuttgart monument conservator and local history researcher Gustav Wais .

In 1941 Gustav Wais published an annotated collection with the most important old plans and views of Stuttgart, which he brought out in a revised and expanded second edition in 1954 after the Second World War. His illustrated book of Alt-Stuttgart was published as early as 1951, followed by two further volumes in 1955 and 1959 with pictures from the 19th century and before the destruction of the Second World War.

City maps

The following selection of historical Stuttgart city maps is arranged according to the year of issue. The section headings contain the year of issue and the name of the city map author.

1592, Jonathan Sauter

"Warhaffte conterfactur of the Princely Principality of Stutgarten in the highly commendable Principality of Württemberg 1592", view of the city of Stuttgart from the southeast, etching by Jonathan Sauter , 1592, 42 × 109 cm. Signed: ISR (monogram by Jonathan Sauter) in the cartridge lower left. Schefold 7778.Source: # Decker-Hauff 1966 , after p. 352. Literature: #Wais 1954.2 , pages 154-161, plate 3, #Bach 1868 , #Bach 1896 , pages 77-79, # Decker-Hauff 1966.2 , # Decker-Hauff 1966 , p. 352, #Schefold 1957 , p. 565 .

View from Stafflenbergstrasse in the south-east of Stuttgart over the city of Stuttgart. In the foreground the Leonhardsvorstadt, behind it the walled city center. In the background the rich suburb disappears, meadows and vineyards, fields and forests spread around the city.

According to Max Bach , Sauter's view of the city is the “oldest representation of Stuttgart”, Gustav Wais praises it as the “most complete and beautiful old view of the city”, and Hansmartin Decker-Hauff praises it as “the first reliable, true to every detail and yet clearly laid out City view ”.

A medallion with the Württemberg coat of arms floats above the cityscape, surrounded by rich Renaissance decorations. A fluttering, artfully intertwined writing tape with the title of the picture extends from this coat of arms on both sides. In the upper corners there are two cartouches with a Latin or German dedication poem, in the lower corners two cartouches with captions of the buildings and the vineyards. For the captions see also:

• Version with large index numbers .
• Inscription and explanations of the captions based on Hansmartin Decker-Hauff.

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  Coat of arms.

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  Latin dedication poem.

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  German dedication poem.

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  Legend of the buildings.

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  Legend of the vineyards.

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  In original colors

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  With large index numbers.

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  Coloring of unknown.

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  Autograph by Max Bach, 1870.

1638, Matthäus Merian

→ Main article: Merian's Stuttgart views .

→ Image comment “Die Fürst [liche] Statt Stuetgart”, bird chart of Stuttgart, copper plate by Matthäus Merian , 1638, first book publication 1643, 209 × 322 mm. Schefold 7790. Source: Facsimile of a colored photolithography, publisher: Stadtmessungsamt Stuttgart, no year, online . Literature: # Merian-Druckgraphik 4 , p. 78, number 84, #Wais 1954.2 , p. 216–219, plate 37, #Bach 1896 , p. 79–80, #Schefold 1957 , p. 566, #Gugenhan 1997 , P. 25, #Borst 1973 with an additional legend with 77 index digits.

View from the Geroksruhe in the south-east of Stuttgart over the city of Stuttgart. The bird's diagram combines the city view and the city map and is not oriented to the north, but to Königstrasse (then “Großer Graben”), which runs horizontally through the picture. Within the city wall with its towers and gates, the city center can be seen in the middle and to the right of it the pleasure garden, whose “largely incorrect” rendering is criticized by Stefan Gugenhan. Above is the Reiche Vorstadt with part of the two lakes, below the St. Leonhards-Vorstadt.

Under the title “Die Fürst: Statt Stuetgart” you can see the Stuttgart coat of arms with a jumping horse, the coat of arms of the House of Württemberg in the laurel wreath on the top right and a carpet hanging on a pole with the legend on the bottom right .

1640, Max Bach

“Stuttgart around [the] year 1640”, copper engraving by Max Bach , 1895. Signed: M. Bach entw. and signed 1895 - A. Eckstein, lith. Rst Stuttgart (designed and drawn by Max Bach in 1895 - Adolph Eckstein, lithographic institute Stuttgart). Not with Schefold. Source: #Bach 1896 , panel I.

Max Bach wrote about the creation of this city map: “We all used these more or less incomplete plans for our Plan Table 1, which represents the city based on Roth's plan from 1794 , according to its existence before the middle of the 17th century. “The legend on the right-hand side of the picture lists the most important buildings.

1652, unknown

Plan of the watercourses and Dolen in Stuttgart after the Nesenbach flood in 1652, pen drawing by Unknown, 1652, 74 × 100 cm, captions and index numbers added. Schefold 7745.Source: #Wais 1954.2 , plate 38. Literature: #Wais 1954.2 , p. 219, plate 38, #Schefold 1957 , p. 562.

After the Nesenbach flood in 1652, Duke Eberhard III. the inclusion of all the city's watercourses. Gustav Wais added the index numbers to the plan and described all city gates and towers using this numbering:

"In addition to this, its actual purpose, the plan has special architectural historical value, because the entire city fortification and walling with all gates and towers can be perfectly reconstructed from it, as a result of precise details of their structural shape, whether round or angular, as well as the location."

1720, Jeremias Wolff, large format

“Stutgard”, Stuttgart from the southeast, copper engraving by Jeremias Wolff , around 1720, 295 × 990 mm. Signed: Haered: Ier. Wolffij exc. A. V (Haeredes Jeremiae Wolffi excuderunt Augusta Vindelicorum = printed by the heirs of Jeremias Wolff, Augsburg). Below the plan: caption . Schefold 7811. Source: #Wais 1954.2 , plate 21. See also: Small format version . Literature: #Wais 1954.2 , p. 192, plate 21, #Schefold 1957 , p. 568.

Gustav Wais judged Wolff's engraving:

"Unfortunately, the sheet is an extremely inadequate, partly also faulty reproduction of the cityscape and can therefore only be seen as a curiosity."

"In the view of Jeremias Wolff from 1720 ... the Augsburg engraver, who is unfamiliar with the location, also referred to the torture tower and even the powder tower (No. 20) as a 'bell tower' in addition to this and the later bell tower!"

1720, Jeremias Wolff, small format

“Stutgard”, Stuttgart from the southeast, copper engraving by Jeremias Wolff , around 1720, approx. 11 × 56 cm. In the foot of the image: caption (the yellow index numbers are not part of the original). Source: #Wais 1954.2 , plate 43. See also: Large format version . Literature: #Wais 1954.2 , p. 192, 228, plate 43.

Reprint of the large format on a smaller scale and with an integrated caption . The engraving forms the lower part of Matthäus Seutter's city map from 1720.

1720, Matthäus Seutter

"Stutgardia - Stutgard", city map by Matthäus Seutter , including a view of the city by Jeremias Wolff , copper engraving, around 1720, 48 × 56 cm. Not with Schefold. Source: Moll map collection . See also: Wolff, Großformat , Wolff, Kleinformat . Literature: #Wais 1954.2 , p. 228, plate 43.

Top left: Coat of arms of Stuttgart and coat of arms of the Duchy of Württemberg.

Above right: Cartouche with the history of Stuttgart.

Title cartouche:

Stutgardia. Würtenbergensis Ducatus Metropolis arcem habens eleganitssimam, multasque amoenitates exhibita à Matthaeus Seutter Sacrae Caesareae Majestatis Geographus Augusta Vindelicorum.

Stutgard. The highly princely and agreeable main and resident city of the Duchy of Würtenberg not far from the Neckar, made out and relocated by Matthäus Seutter, Imperial and Royal Catholic Majesty Geographer in Augspurg.

1794, Christian Friedrich Roth

“Basic crack of the Herzoglich Wirtembergischen main and first residence city of Stuttgardt. MDCCXCIV “, first city map of Stuttgart with house numbering, drawing by Christian Friedrich Roth, copper engraving by Gottlieb Friedrich Abel, 1794, 63 × 74 cm. Schefold 7759. With street and building names. Source: #Roth 1794 . Color illustration (with badly legible street and building names): see title picture. Literature: #Wais 1954.2 , pp. 248-256, plate 52, #Schefold 1957 , p. 563.

The city map is not oriented to the north, but to Königstrasse (then “Großer Graben”), which runs horizontally through the picture. It is the first map in which the houses are numbered and the street names are drawn. The house numbers entered in the city map were valid from 1757 to 1811 and were not street numbers, but the consecutive numbers of all houses from 1 to 1374 (= total number of houses at that time). From 1811 onwards, the houses were numbered consecutively for each quarter. The current street numbering was only introduced in 1832.

In 1795, Christian Friedrich Roth published an address book to supplement the city map. In the 58-page octave booklet, the names of the house owners and the house numbers are given, but not the street names, which can be found out by looking up the house number on the map.

Notes: A concordance table of the old and current street names can be found in #Wais 1954.2 , pp. 249-251.

1811, Gottlieb Börner

"Map or signpost of the royal Württemberg residence city of Stuttgart according to the new division, with names of the quarters, streets and house numbers from the year 1811", copper engraving by Gottlieb Börner, 1811, 43 × 54 cm. Signed: In the publishing house of Ebnerschen Kunsthandlung. Drawn and engraved on stone by Gottlieb Börner. Schefold 7763.Source: #Scheffer 1815 . Literature: #Scheffer 1815 , #Schefold 1957 , p. 564.

The city map is not oriented to the north, but to Königstrasse, which runs horizontally through the picture. It reflects the new division of the city into four quarters, which was in place from 1811 to 1832. The quarters were designated with the letters A – D (Lit. A – D = Littera A – D) and are color-coded on the map (legend, bottom right). Public buildings are also color-coded and named. The houses were no longer numbered consecutively across the entire city, but consecutively per quarter. At the top right the heraldic animal of the city of Stuttgart, the jumping mare with a suckling foal.

1846, Karl Pfaff

Folded plan of the city of Stuttgart from unknown, 1846. Not in Schefold. Source: #Pfaff 1846 .

The plan appeared as a black and white supplement to a partial edition of Karl Pfaff's “History of the City of Stuttgart from Archival Documents and Other Proven Sources, Volume 2”. According to the legend at the bottom right, the districts, buildings and inns were to be marked in color. It is not known whether a color version of the plan was actually issued.

The city map reflects the division of the city into three districts and the street numbering that has been in place since 1832. The districts were designated with the letters A – C (Lit. A – C = Littera A – C). The map is very valuable as a historical source because the houses are entered in the plan with their house numbers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ #Wais 1941 , #Wais 1954.2 .
2. ↑ #Wais 1955.2 , #Wais 1959.1 .
3. ↑ # Bach 1896 , page 77.
4. ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , page 159.
5. ↑ # Decker-Hauff 1966.2 .
6. ↑ # Decker-Hauff 1966.2 .
7. ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , p. 274, plate 3.
8. ↑ For further editions see #Wais 1954.2 , page 216, and Schefold 7789-7793.
9. ↑ # Gugenhan 1997 , p. 25.
10. ↑ # Bach 1896 , p. 79.
11. ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , page 219.
12. ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , p. 192.
13. ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , p. 14.
14. ↑ # Roth 1795 .

literature

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• Tobias Lotter : Stutgardia - Stutgard . Augsburg: Tobias Lotter, around 1740.
• Karl Pfaff : History of the city of Stuttgart based on archival documents and other proven sources , Volume 2: History of the city from 1651 to 1845 . Stuttgart 1846 (reprint: Frankfurt am Main 1981).
• Christian Friedrich Roth (drawing); Gottlieb Friedrich Abel (engraving): Basic crack of the Herzoglich Wirtembergischen main and first residence city of Stuttgardt. MDCCXCIV . Without place 1794, pdf .
• Christian Friedrich Roth: Alphabetical index of the owners of those buildings which were in the at the end of 1794 over the Herzogl. Wirtemberg residence city Stuttgart, completed ground plan appear, and are indicated in the same according to numbers . Stuttgart 1795, pdf .
• Martin Zeiller (text); Matthäus Merian (illustration): Topographia Sueviae that is a description: and actual contract management of the most prestigious places and places in Upper and Nider Swabia, Hertzogthum Würtenberg Marggraff creates Baden and other landscapes and places belonging to the Hochlöbl: Schwabischen Craiße. Given on day and published by Matthaeum Merian . Frankfurt am Main: Matthäus Merian, 1643, pdf , transcription .
• Jeremias Wolff : Stutgard . Augsburg: heirs of Jeremias Wolff, around 1720.

Further literature

• Max Bach : a still unknown monogrammist of the 16th century . In: Archives for the arts of drawing with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history , Volume 14, 1868, pp. 127–128, pdf .
• Max Bach (drawing); A. Eckstein (engraving): Stuttgart around 1640 . In: Max Bach (editor); Carl Lotter: Pictures from old Stuttgart . Stuttgart 1896.
• Otto Borst : Stuttgart. The history of the city . Stuttgart 1973. - City map with additional legend.
• Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : History of the City of Stuttgart , Volume 1. Stuttgart 1966.
• Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : The Stuttgart city view by Jonathan Sauter from 1592 . Anniversary gift for the 50th anniversary of the Städtische Girokasse Stuttgart public bank. Stuttgart undated (1966).
• Stefan Gugenhan: The royal gardens of Stuttgart in the 16th and 17th centuries . Stuttgart 1997.
• Jürgen Hagel: Cannstatt and its history . Stuttgart 2007.
• Wilhelm Ferdinand Ludwig Scheffer: Historical data and curiosities of Stuttgart . Stuttgart 1815 (reprinted 1969).
• Max Schefold: Old Views from Württemberg , Volume 2: Catalog part. Stuttgart 1957.
• Stuttgart in the mirror of old maps and plans . Catalog edited by Jürgen Hagel, ed. from the Württemberg History and Antiquity Association. Main State Archives Stuttgart 1984.
• Gustav Wais : Old Stuttgart: the oldest buildings, views and city plans up to 1800; with urban history, architectural history and art history explanations .1st edition: Stuttgart 1941. 2nd, revised and expanded edition: Stuttgart 1954.
• Gustav Wais: Stuttgart in the nineteenth century: 150 pictures with explanations of city history, building history and art history . Stuttgart 1955.
• Gustav Wais: Stuttgart before the destruction. 134 pictures with explanations of city history, architectural history and art history . Stuttgart 1959.
• Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich: The graphic work of Matthaeus Merian d. Ae., 4. The great book publications II. The topographies . Hamburg 1996.

Web links

Commons : Historical plans of Stuttgart  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Historical views of Stuttgart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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