Presentation of the new fortification workers and project managers Schantzen

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The presentation of the New Fortification Workers and Projectors Schantzen in the year 1761 and 1762 in the area of ​​the city and Vestung Hannover

Presentation of the Neue Fortification Werker und Projektirten Schantzen in the anno 1761 and 1762 in the area of ​​the city and fortress Hannover is the title of a map that was probably drawn and watercolored by Johann Friedrich Schrieck at the time of the Seven Years' War . It shows the defenses of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover and its surroundings.

description

The card is signed de JF Schrieck . It has the dimensions 48 × 67 cm and was produced in different scales: For the parts inside the fortress, the scale 1: 8,200 was used, the parts outside the fortress are sometimes shown distorted. A scale of about 1: 9,200 was determined for the undistorted parts. Johann Friedrich Schrieck, who can be proven in the engineer corps of the Hanoverian army from around 1761 to 1770, is believed to be the author of the card .

The fortress of Hanover is shown on Schrieck's map in the greatest state of development it has ever achieved. From 1763 the fortress was dismantled and finally demolished. The bastionary complex, to which the fortress was expanded after the Thirty Years' War , also included the Hannoversche Neustadt. Modernization was supposed to take place around 1740, but it was not carried out. Instead, part of the main trench fell victim to the construction of the Aegidien-Neustadt in the southeast of the facility. In 1757/58 Hanover was occupied by French troops. The parts that were added to the fortress in 1761/62 are marked in green on Schrieck's map. These are outer works and jumps. Since the continuation of the expansion could not be financed, part of the building material was auctioned off as early as 1763. In 1767 work began on the esplanade in the area of ​​today's Waterlooplatz on the former fortress wall.

The representation of the area around Hanover is designed on the map from a military point of view. It contains tall, widely visible buildings and objects such as B. Church towers, but is not drawn with the accuracy of a topographic map. Above all, the fortress works and their strategic location around Hanover as well as their state of development were important to the draftsman. This setting of priorities and the effort to provide an overview on a handy map explain the application of the different scales as well as the color design.

The original of the map, which temporarily belonged to the collection of Duke Friedrich von York , is in the city ​​archive of the state capital Hanover under the archive signature: Karte 5094. On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the state capital Hanover, this map was issued in 1991 by the Lower Saxony state administration office reproduced. The facsimile produced in cooperation with the City Archives, the Lower Saxony Main State Archives , Hanover and the Lower Saxony State Library is held in the Library of Congress (LoC) , among others ; in the catalog there, however, the copyright information is labeled as illegible.

See also

literature

  • Hanover in the Seven Years War (1756–1763). On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the state capital Hanover. Draftsman: JF Schrieck. (= Hanover in maps. 1760–1860. On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the state capital Hanover ), reproduction of the edition from 1763 on a scale of approx. 1: 8,200 - 1: 9,200, ed. from the Lower Saxony State Administration Office, land surveying, 1991
  • Helmut Knocke: Presentation of the Neue Fortification Werker and Projectirten Schantzen in the anno 1761 and 1762 in the area of ​​the city and Vestung Hannover. In: Hannover in Maps. 1760-1860. Published by the Lower Saxony State Administration Office - State Surveying - in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Main State Archives, Hanover, the Lower Saxony State Library, Hanover and the City Archives of the State Capital Hanover on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the State Capital Hanover, 1991; as a PDF document
  • Hugo Thielen (Red.), Friedrich Lindau : Hanover - the courtly area Herrenhausen. How the city deals with the monuments of its feudal era. With a foreword by Wolfgang Schächen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 2003. ISBN 3-422-06424-9 , p. 2; limited preview in Google Book search

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Schrieck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : Presentation of the New Fortification Workers and Projectiers Schantzen in the anno 1761 and 1762 in the area of ​​the city and Vestung Hannover. In: Hannover in Maps. 1760-1860. Published by the Lower Saxony State Administration Office - State Surveying - in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Main State Archives, Hanover, the Lower Saxony State Library, Hanover and the City Archives of the State Capital Hanover on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the State Capital Hanover, 1991; as a PDF document
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library.
  3. ↑ Compare the information in the LoC catalog.