Spa Bavarian Atlas
The Kurbayerische Atlas is a geographical description of the Electorate of Bavaria from the late 17th century.
The full original title reads:
"Chur-Bayerischer Atlas / That is: A fundamentally correct, historical illustration, adorned with many beautiful coppers and maps, all of the excellent cities in the famous Chur-Hertzogthum Upper and Lower Bavaria, also in the Upper Palatinate, markets , and partly castles, together with the same origin, reproduction, and other most remarkable Bavarian things of thought, all contained for the unadulterated basis of antiquity.
Described and written by ANTONIO GUILIELMO Ertl, the right licentiate, Chur-Bavarian court lawyer, and the praised Closter Steingadten Ober-Richter zu Widtraeltingen, also other Swabian village sheep. "
The work appeared in two volumes. Volume 1, published in 1687, presents cities, markets and castles in Bavaria, Volume 2, published in 1690, presents Bavarian monasteries, abbeys, provosts and monasteries. Both volumes were illustrated with copperplate engravings by Johann Ulrich Krauss (1655–1719). The author of the atlas was the Munich lawyer Anton Wilhelm Ertl (1654–1715), who at that time was chief judge of the Steingaden monastery in Wiedergeltingen .
Web links
- limited preview in Google Book search
- German digital library