Georg Gadner

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Duchy of Württemberg 1596, overview map for its forest maps
Map of the "Mülweg" near " Cantstad "
Map of the Leonberg forest district (1590) with coats of arms of the towns in it

Georg Gadner (also Georg Garner, Georg Gardner, Georgius Gadnerus or Georg Gadner von Garneck; * 1522 in Landshut ; † May 2, 1605 in Freudental ) was appointed as a lawyer to the senior councilor of the Württemberg administration, made a name for himself as a chronicler and geographer As a cartographer, he became a pioneer of geographical recording of the state of Württemberg .

Live and act

The son of a gunsmith in Landshut took part in several campaigns and studied law at various universities. The doctor of law then worked as a procurator , lawyer and legal expert.

Württemberg cartographer

In 1555 Gadner entered the service of the reform-loving Duke Christoph von Württemberg . Originally employed as a learned senior councilor and rent chamber procurator, his area of ​​responsibility expanded to include forest management, mining, metallurgy and cartography. Presumably under Gadner's direction, Heinrich Schweickher created the first district maps of the Württemberg " Beamptungen " around 1575 . Territorial disputes confronted Gadner with the task of mapping the areas in question, as in the area around Cannstatt (see map). He drew his results on "boards", which he continuously improved and added.

Gadner forest maps

Finally, around 1587, Duke Ludwig von Württemberg commissioned him to map the Württemberg forest districts . The Gadner forest maps also served to decorate the new Stuttgart pleasure house . In 1596, Gadner created an atlas on 20 parchments with his forest district maps, the Chorographia Ducatus Wirtembergici including a map of the entire Duchy of Württemberg.

These maps, with a scale of around 1: 80,000, were supplemented by five more sheets in the same style between 1609 and 1612 by the renovator Johannes Oettinger . In contrast to many contemporary maps and the Kieser's forest maps drawn up around 100 years later, Gadner's maps were not south-facing, but oriented north.

reception

This work is of inestimable value for the history of Württemberg, above all, because it shows the country before it was destroyed by the Thirty Years' War . In combination with Heinrich Schweickher's office cards, this allows the desolation of a number of settlements to be chronologically verified.

literature

  • Margareta Bull-Reichenmiller with the participation of Eberhard Merk and Roland Häberlein: "Mounted, written and torn": Georg Gadner and his cartographic work 1559-1602. Inventory and book accompanying an exhibition in the main state archive in Stuttgart . Main State Archives Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1996.
  • Friedrich Huttenlocher : History of the cartography of the German southwest. To the work of the same name by Ruthardt Oehme . In: Geography , Volume XVI, 1962, pp. 309–311, digitized version (PDF)
  • Karl Otto Müller: Georg Gadner: senior counselor, chronicler and cartographer 1522-1605 . In: Hermann Haering and Otto Hohenstatt (eds.), Schwäbische Lebensbilder , Vol. 2. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941, pp. 171–182.
  • Ruthardt Oehme: The history of the cartography of the German southwest . Edited by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Work on the Historical Atlas of Southwest Germany , Volume 3, Jan Thorbecke, Konstanz and Stuttgart 1961.
  • Robert Uhland:  Gadner von Garneck, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 13 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cities in the "Leonberger Vorst": Stuttgart , Leonberg , Asperg , Markgröningen and Heimsheim .
  2. ↑ See Landesarchiv BW, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
  3. ↑ Georg Gadner and contemporaries Baden-Württemberg State Archives, HStA Stuttgart N1 and map from Lorch (Württemberg State Library)
  4. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, HStA Stuttgart, N 3 No. 1: "Chorographia description of the praiseworthy principality of Württemberg including all of the same landscapes, offices, cities, monasteries, castles, spots, villages, waters, rivers, streams, forests, forests, mountains and wood, the same with the push buttons and borders ....  in the German Digital Library
  5. ↑ Friedrich Huttenlocher : History of the cartography of the German southwest. To the work of the same name by Ruthardt Oehme . In: Geography , Volume XVI, 1962, pp. 309–311, digitized version (PDF)

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personal data
SURNAME Gadner, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garner, Georg; Gardner, Georg; Gadnerus, Georgius; Gadner von Garneck, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg senior councilor and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1522
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1605
Place of death Freudental