Bremen city plans, maps and cityscapes

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Hogenberg 1588/89,
nice but with mistakes
Dilich 1603, not so fine,
but topographically more accurate

The representations of Bremen city plans, maps and city views are all historically sorted by author, until the middle of the 18th century in a list, then in separate lists for maps and views.

This results from the development of the presentation habits and subjects; Until the 18th century, the sometimes somewhat naive representation in a bird's eye view city map is often one of the few sources on the architecture of a building, while labeled panoramas also provide topographical information. From around 1770 maps and city plans were drawn after precise measurements. Views are now on the one hand largely realistic in perspective and proportions, on the other hand no longer just building portraits. Some represent some - often pretty - place in a special atmosphere.

In the case of several representations, “ Bremen State and University Library ” refers to the link to the respective digitized version on the library's server.

Until the middle of the 18th century

  • Martin Weigel and Hans Weigel the Elder (around 1520–1577/78): Bremen cityscape on the Weser side , woodcut , 1550/1564, is considered the oldest view of Bremen. By Werner Kloos in his illustrated book was The old Bremen been indicated as the author erroneously a Martin Weissflog, which has not been corrected in recent reprinting of his work. See also article in Bremen Yearbook of Heinrich Prüser .
  • Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590) from Georg Braun / Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum , 6 volumes, 1572–1617 (fully digitized):
    • City view of Brema , from the southwest, copper engraving from vol. I (1572). In: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 106. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014 (color); in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 16, Wuppertal 1977 and in Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 2.
    • City map Brema Urbs Hanseatici Foederis ad Visurgum Flu. , Copper engraving from Vol. IV (Cologne 1588/89). In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 3 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 19.
Dilich Chronicle:
Urbis Bremæ Territory
  • Wilhelm Dilich (1571–1650):
  • Christian von Apen (gen.:1590–1604): Maps of the Weser and the four Bremen Gohe , copperplate engravings in the Dilich Chronicle (see above).
  • Jürgen Landwehr (1580–1646): Oil painting in the town hall from 1602 or 1617.
  • Peter Bertius (1565–1629): View of Bremen towards the north in Commentarium rerum Germaniarum Liber III, p. 486. Woodcut 1616. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 17.
  • Meissner-Kiefer: View of Bremen in: Politisches Schatzkästlein , woodcut 1625/31. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 21.
  • Johan van Valckenburgh (~ 1575–1625): Plan for the layout of the new town in 1625
Matthäus Merian the Elder: Vogelschauuplan BREMA
Johann Daniel Heinbach, Floor Plan of the Keisserlichen-Freyen Reichs- und Ansee City of Bremen, with their Vorstaetten , copper engraving 1757

Maps and plans from the middle of the 18th century

Floor plan of the city of Bremen,
Carl Ludwig Murtfeldt 1796
Map of the village of Rokwinkel, taken by CA Heineken in 1805
Geestemünde ports
  • Geestemünde harbor from 1900
around 1901: Bremerhaven, Geestemünde, Lehe

Views from the middle of the 18th century

  • Ernst Rudolf Schilling (1728–1774):
    • Perspectivischer conceptions of the imperial empire and Ansee city Bremen . Colored copper engraving, 1767. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 16.
    • Surveys in 1772, the CA Heineken (1795 s o.. ) To its map Bremen with the suburbs has processed.
  • Johann Heinrich Grönninger:
    • Prospect in Bremen by the Allée from the old and new town up the Weser . Copper engraving, 1771. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 17 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 41.
    • Prospect in Bremen by the Allée from the old and new town down the Weser . Copper engraving, 1771. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 47 and in Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 18.
    • Prospect in Bremen by the large bridge up the Weser . Copper engraving, 1771. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 15 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten .
    • Prospect in Bremen against the large bridge down the Weser . Copper engraving, 1771. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 14 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 39.
    • View of the river side of the old town above the Weser bridge . Copper engraving, 1771. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 45.
    • Bremen up the Weser . Copper engraving, 1773. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 13 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten .
    • Prospect from the Allée in Bremen . Copper engraving, 1773. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 43 and in Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 19.
  • Johann Joachim Kelling: We conjured fore and other masters of the craft of their tailors in the imperial Freyen imperial city of Bremen hereby certify ... , city view with old and new city from the south as copper engraving from 1779. In: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450– 1859 , p. 113.Wallstein, Göttingen 2014.
  • JT Weyermann: City view with a view towards Ansgaritor from the Contrescarpe ; Copper engraving, 1807. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 24.
Warturm from 1813, drawing by JH Menken
  • Johann Heinrich Menken 1766–1838, a landscape painter born and living in Bremen, painted and drew mainly between 1790 and 1827, including several subjects from the outskirts and suburbs of Bremen, many in the fund of the Focke Museum , some in the appendix to: Bremisches Jahrbuch  ›Volume 53 [1975] › The painters Johann Heinrich Menken (1766–1839) and Gottfried Menken (1799–1838) (available in the reading room of the Bremen State Archives; digital version of the State and University Library unfortunately without the images). Scans in Commons: Drawings of Bremen by JH Menken .
  • George Ernest Papendiek (1788–1835), watercolors , some of which were used as models for lithographs , a. a. from the Hohentor and the cathedral.
  • Gottfried Menken (1799–1838, son of Johann Heinrich M.)
  • Johann Gottfried Pflugfelder: City view from the Ostertorcontrescarpe. Copper engraving, 1807. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 23.
1820: View from the wall, A. Radl
  • Anton Radl (1774–1852), drawings that have been reproduced as engravings (scans in Commons: Views… Bremen, etc. by Anton Radl ):
    • View of Bremen from the south-east side , copper engraving by Haldenwang 1822. In: Adam Storck : Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings , p. 553; Werner Kloos: The old Bremen , Fig. 38.
    • View of Bremen from the west side , copper engraving by Leopold Beyer 1822. In: Adam Storck: Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings , Wolfgang Schwarze: Old Bremer City Views p. 59 and Historical City Views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 114 .
    • The Bürgerweide near Bremen , copper engraving by Wilhelm Jury 1820. In: Adam Storck: Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings , p. 181; Wolfgang Schwarze: Old City Views of Bremen p. 63 and Historical City Views of Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 115.
    • Views of Burg near Bremen , engraving by Leopold Beyer 1822. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 44 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 69.
    • Views of Lesum near Bremen , engraving by Leopold Beyer 1822. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 45.
    • Views of St. Magnus near Bremen , engraving by Haldenwang 1822. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 46 and in Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 65.
    • Vegesack near Bremen , engraving by F. Geißler 1821. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 48.
    • Views of Blumenthal near Bremen , engraving from 1822. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 49.
  • Capt. Robert Batty
    • and J. Godden: The town hall of Bremen with cathedral and market square , copper engraving, 1829. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 51.
    • and JH Kernott: Bridge over the Weser, Bremen , copper engraving, London 1829. In: Wolfgang Schwarze: Alte Bremer Stadtansichten , p. 49.
  • Stephan Messerer (1798–1865), drawings and paintings of buildings in Bremen that served as models for copper and steel engravings, see scans in WM Commons .
  • Anton von Lowtzow as a draftsman and Friedrich Julius Tempeltey (1802–1870) as a lithographer: Representation of the town hall and other public buildings
  • F. Meyer (from Berlin):
    • View of Bremen from the west , lithograph, 1841. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 60.
    • View of Bremen from the southeast , lithograph, 1841. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 61.
Neustadtufer on the Little Weser in Bremen. Painting by A. Braakman, 1841, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • Anthonie Braakman (1811-1870)
    • Painting of the city with the ice surface of the Weser from the south from 1843, original: Focke-Museum. In: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859, p. 116.
    • Painting of the Neustadtufer with ice surface on the small Weser from 1841, original: Focke-Museum.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kohl (1811–1864):
    • View from the Schlachte , lithograph , 1844. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 76.
    • View from the banks of the Weser from the Fangelturm down the Weser with Schlachte, to the Great Bridge, lithograph, 1844. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 75.
    • View of Altenwall and the Weser and the landing stage at the Tiefer , lithograph, 1844. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 74.
    • The old harbor in Bremerhaven , lithograph, 1844. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 64.
  • Johann Georg Weinhold (1813–1880), German lithographer, created the Bremen Views in Dresden in 1844/46 with 12 lithographs based on drawings by Friedrich Wilhelm Kohl.
  • Adolf Eltzner (1816–1891): Plan of Bremen from a bird's eye view from the southeast, lithograph, Leipzig 1851, original in the Focke Museum. In: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 117.
  • Julius Gottheil (drawing), Wilhelm Heuer (lithograph): Bremerhaven view of the New Harbor from 1859, original in the Focke Museum. In: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 119.
  • Christoph Herzog († 1878) (drawing), VH Collby (lithograph): Vegesack in the presence of the Prussian steam cannon boats in September 1861 , view from the west. In: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 307.
  • H. Marutzky: View of Bremerhaven, drawing from 1875. In: Werner Kloos: Das alten Bremen , Fig. 67.
  • Louis Koch (1843–1900), a large number of documentary photographs of buildings, many of them only available in the Fockemuseum.

Illustrated books and generously illustrated non-fiction books

  • Adam Storck : Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings . Frankfurt 1822; Facsimile edition with 16 copperplate engravings from the State and University Library Bremen : Schünemann-Verlag, Bremen 1977, ISBN 3-7961-1688-4 .
  • Architects and Engineers Association (ed.), Bremen and its buildings , Verlag Carl Schünemann 1900, available in the reading room of the Bremen State Archives Ae-18a L5. - not very many, but several very interesting photos
  • Werner Kloos : The old Bremen with 98 illustrations. Schünemann, Bremen 1978, ISBN 3-7961-1699-X .
  • Wolfgang Schwarze: Old City Views of Bremen . 40 views from three centuries. Kunst und Wohnen Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
  • Klaus Niehr (ed.): Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , on Bremen p. 106–117, on Bremerhaven p. 118/119, on Vegesack p. 307, texts by Bettina Schleier. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1534-1 .
  • Herbert Black Forest: View of Bremen. Views - Vogelschauen - City maps from the 16th to 19th centuries , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-7961-1759-7 , authors mostly noted in the captions, no further sources are given.
  • Rudolf Stein :
    • Research on the history of architectural and art monuments in Bremen, Verlag HM Hauschild , Bremen, available in the reading room of the Bremen State Archives
      • Vol. 1: The past of Bremen (the city map and the cityscape in the course of the centuries) , 1961, large format
      • Vol. 2: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture in Bremen , 1962
      • Vol. 3: Bremen Baroque and Rococo , 1960
      • Vol. 4 u. 5: Classicism and Romanticism in Architecture in Bremen , Vols I and II, 1964
      • Vol. 6: Village churches and farmhouses in the Bremer Lande , 1968
    • The Bürgerhaus in Bremen ( Das Deutsche Bürgerhaus , Volume XIII), Verlag Ernst, Wasmuth, Tübingen 1970

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historic Cities: Braun and Hogenberg - Civitates orbis terrarum
  2. ↑ ISTITUTO INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA ECONOMICA "F. DATINI": Civitates Orbis Terrarum - complete digitized version , better and with pages of text: Biblioteca Digital de España:
  3. ↑ In J. A. Wredenhagen: De Rebus Publicis Hanseaticis (1641), see Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich (ed.): The graphic work of Matthaeus Merian d. Ae. , Volume 4, Hoffmann and Campe 1996, ISBN 978-3-455-08522-8 , p. 368.
  4. ^ University of Amsterdam: Jan Jansz. van Loon, alias: Johannes van Loon
  5. ^ Anton von Lowtzow and Friedrich Julius Tempeltey: Das Rathhaus (Google book search)