Topographia Windhagiana

Topographia Windhagiana (aucta) by Joachim Enzmilner is Austria's first ruling topography .

description

The Topographia Windhagiana was drawn by Clemens Beutler (* 1623, † 1682) on behalf of Joachim Enzmilner , provided with accompanying texts by Father Hyacinth Marian Fidler and initially published by the Frankfurt bookseller and engraver Caspar Merian in the appendix to his Topographia , and in 1656 as a separate book the title Topographia Windhagiana and published in 1673 in an extended edition as Topographia Windhagiana aucta by Leopold Voigt in Vienna . The copper engraving collection also contains representations of workshops , factories and outbuildings and thus represents an important testimony to the aristocratic self-image. It is of cultural and historical interest as a tradition of the living conditions of the time.

content

First edition

The lordship of Windhag in the Mühlviertel, acquired by Joachim Enzmilner in 1636, and the lordship of Reichenau am Freiwald (today the cadastral community of Bad Großpertholz) with Groß-Pertholz and Langschlag , which was acquired in 1653, are the main objects of the representation in the first topography, consisting of 21 panels, published in 1656. Furthermore, the Windhag'sche house in Vienna (1st district, Singerstraße), in Vienna (9th district, Rossau) and the toll house in Neumarkt an der Ybbs can be found and described. The descriptive texts are missing in two other pictures, each of the Ebelsbergerhof (stately manor between Linz and Ebelsberg) and the Linz house (Hauptplatz 23) bought in 1633 . In 1963 a facsimile of this first edition of the Topographia Windhagina was published.

Second edition

Rosenburg Castle towards the west in the second edition of Topographia Windhagiana

A new edition of the Topographia Windhagiana soon became necessary because Joachim Enzmilner acquired further properties. This second edition, printed in 1673, includes 39, in addition to the 21 plates of the first edition, a total of 60 plates and is provided with a much more detailed text. The texts on the Ebelsbergerhof and the Linz house that were missing in the first edition are now also available, although the former was sold in 1666. The newly acquired and presented objects are in particular Groß-Poppen near Allentsteig in the Waldviertel (acquired in 1656), the rule of Neunzen and Rosenburg (1658) and the rule of Rausmann (1659).

literature

Fritz Eheim: 300 years of Topographia Windhagiana (1656 to 1956). In: Archive of the City of Linz (ed.): Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 1957. Linz 1957, p. 375ff, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Web links

Images from the Topographia Windhagiana in the Topographical Collection of the Lower Austrian State Library

Individual evidence

^ Holdings of the Lower Austrian State Library, Sankt Pölten, query from February 13, 2010
↑ Matthäus Merian: Topographia Provinciarum Austriacaru (m), Austriae, Styriae, Carinthiae, Carniolae, Tyrolis etc. ... Facsimile of the first edition from 1649 as well as the two appendices and the "Topographia Windhagiana" from 1656. Edited with an afterword by Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich . Bärenreiter publishing house, Basel / Kassel 1963.

[1] Holdings of the Lower Austrian State Library, Sankt Pölten, query from February 13, 2010

[2] Matthäus Merian: Topographia Provinciarum Austriacaru (m), Austriae, Styriae, Carinthiae, Carniolae, Tyrolis etc. ... Facsimile of the first edition from 1649 as well as the two appendices and the "Topographia Windhagiana" from 1656. Edited with an afterword by Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich . Bärenreiter publishing house, Basel / Kassel 1963.