Plastic city model

City model of Toronto Downtown

With city ​​model , historical and current fully plastic city ​​models are referred to as a scaled-down reproduction of the cityscape down to individual buildings. It is used in particular by cartographers or town planners in the sense of model construction, for example by Jakob Sandtner .

There are also city models that are used for tourist purposes, especially for city tours. These models are sometimes set up outdoors and are easily accessible to the public. Often these are historical models that are intended to illustrate what the city in question looked like at a certain point in time in the past.

Examples

Small city model of Ingolstadt by Jakob Sandtner from 1571

Excerpt from the city model of Cologne by Theo Giesen around 1571

• Augsburg : City model by Hans Rogel , 1560/63, in the Maximilian Museum
• Berlin : Berlin city models (four), Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, permanent exhibition atrium (scale 1: 500 to 1: 2000) and spatial city model
• Braunschweig : four city models of the city of Braunschweig (9th century, around 1250, 1671 and 1981), permanent exhibition of the municipal museum in the old town hall .
• Burghausen, Jakob Sandtner , 1574, in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich (a more detailed list of Sandtner's work can be found here )
• Frankfurt
  • Inner old town, model by the Treuner brothers , 1926 to 1961 (1: 200)
  • Debris model, 1944
• Geneva : Relief Magnin by Auguste Magnin (1841–1903) of the city of Geneva / Genève (view around 1850) in the Museum Tavel
• Hanover , City Hall - four city models from 1689, 1939, 1945 and today

City model of Hamburg

• Hamburg , continuously updated model in the entrance hall of the authority for urban development and the environment
• Ingolstadt, Jakob Sandtner, 1573
• Replica of Karlsruhe as a mock system in World War II
• Cologne Plastic city model 200 × 200 cm Colonia Agrippina by Theo Giesen (1922–1990) - Location: "KuMuMü - Mülheim Culture Museum on Ruhrstrasse 3"
• Landshut , Jakob Sandtner, 1570
• Models in Münster , primarily for the blind ( Domplatz , Lamberti- and Überwasserkirchplatz )
• Munich : among others
  • Jakob Sandtner, scale 1: 616, around 1570, Bavarian National Museum
  • Johann Baptist Seitz , Anselm Sickinger a. a .: 1850–1863, pear tree, scale 1: 700, location Bavarian National Museum
  • German Hochbildgesellschaft 1930 (scale 1: 2000)
  • 1938/39 (scale 1: 1000)
  • around 2000 (scale 1: 500), department for urban planning, location city ​​museum (new wooden model, will be continuously updated)
• Nuremberg , Hans Baier, 1540, is considered the earliest in Germany
• Osnabrück , city model from 1633 in the town hall
• Wien , Vienna around 1845, collection of old musical instruments (of the Kunsthistorisches Museum)
• Würzburg :
  • "Würzburg around 1525"; created 1953 to 1967 according to plans by Franz Seberich, Fürstenbaumuseum in the Marienberg Fortress
  • "Würzburg after March 16, 1945"; created 1985 to 1989 by Friedrich Schuller, Rathaus
• Zurich , “Zurich around 1800”, created between 1920 and 1942, in the building history archive, Hans Langmack
• America:
  • New York City : 1964 - Queens Museum (partially updated)
  • Toronto
• China: Beijing City Planning Exhibition
• France: Musée des Reliefs, Paris, a collection of military models
• Israel: Holyland model of the city of Jerusalem in AD 66, Israel Museum campus
• Rome : Plastico di Roma Antica (on a scale of 1: 250)

Web links

Commons : Plastic city model  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Berlin through the centuries. (at berlinonbike.de from Nov. 7, 2014)
• City of Munich, Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations (Editor; Editing: Monika Geiß, Kerstin Oertel, Tabea Dafner, Simone Pahlke): The future of urban model workshops. PDF file over 8 MB (exchange of experience between the urban planning offices on January 23 and 24, 2007 in Munich - results; also overview of existing model workshops)
• City models for the blind by Egbert Broerken
• “Zurich around 1800” - visit the historical city model online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the City of Braunschweig from February 5, 2010 , accessed on December 31, 2017.
2. ↑ hamburg.de
3. ^ "Zurich around 1800" - historical city model .