Gustav Wenng

Caspar Gustav Wenng (* 1814 ; † 1880 ) was a cartographer and lithographer in the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Life

Caspar (or Carl) Gustav Wenng was the third son of the painter and cartographer Carl Heinrich Wenng . Other important members of the Nördlingen family of artists and cartographers who were mainly active in Munich are the second son of Carl Heinrich, Carl Friedrich Wenng (1812–1854), and Georg Ludwig Wenng (1853–1921).

From 1833 CG Wenng published a special atlas of the Kingdom of Bavaria (1: 150,000). In 1845, probably in an effort to do business with this city, he published a city map of Nuremberg , and in 1865 a second. In 1849/51 he published his city map Topographischer Atlas von München in his entire truce . The map is so rich in information that, in addition to streets, buildings, squares and gardens, it also contains the house numbers and even the names and occupations or the status of the respective (around 3,800) homeowners. It is thus an important reference work for the building and economic history as well as urban culture of Munich in the 19th century. For the 700th birthday of Munich in 1858, another map series of Maxvorstadt and Schönfeldvorstadt was published by him .

literature

• Gustav Wenng: Topographical Atlas of Munich in its entire truce, presented and edited in 88 sections on a 2,500-piece scale . Munich, 1849–1851. Complete digitization of the Bavarian State Library
• District Committee Maxvorstadt (Ed.), Franz Schiermeier, Klaus Bäumler (Red.): Gustav Wenng Topographischer Atlas von München 1849/51 in his entire Burgfrieden , reprint 2002 (on the occasion of the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne, based on a template from the Architecture Museum of the Technical University Munich and a copy from the Bavarian State Library in Munich). Accompanying brochure: A picture of the city: the cartographer Gustav Wenng and his topographical atlas of Munich , Munich: District Committee Maxvorstadt, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009909-3
• District Committee 5, Maxvorstadt University (ed.): Gustav Wenng: Munich, Max-Vorstadt and Schönfeld-Vorstadt in 1849: shown in floor plans. with details of all Tittl. H. Homeowner . Reprint of the Munich, Wenng edition, around 1850, for the 1979 district week.
• List of all house owners of the royal capital and residence city of Munich sorted by districts and suburbs together with an alphabetical overview of all streets and places ... at the same time an addition to the latest topographical atlas of Munich's truce in the 2500th scale, edited by Gustav Wenng . Munich 1857

• [1] Thomas Germann: Traces of famous Munich city cartographers in Langnau . Father and son Wenng were also active in our region in the 19th century. Langnauer Post 115, autumn 2016 edition. Printed and published by Ebnöther Joos AG, Langnau am Albis, Switzerland.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Wenng in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gustav Wenng: “Koenigl's plan. Bayer. City of Nuernberg ” , 1845
• "CG Wenng's special and administrative map of the Kingdom of Bavaria", sheet 3, Landshut, around 1860, 1: 150000 (Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online)
• On the new edition of the Topographical Atlas of Munich (1849/50/51) by the lithographer Gustav Wenng for the opening of the Architecture Museum ( Memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• "Concordance of street names" - register for the Topographical Atlas of Munich by Gustav Wenng 1849–51 , edited by Paul Maucher (PDF file; 29 kB)
• "Alphabetical Register of Home Owners" for the Topographical Atlas of Munich by Gustav Wenng 1849–51 , edited by Paul Maucher (PDF file; 506 kB)