Winom
Winom is a fictional settlement whose name is recorded on several early modern maps southwest of the north Baden town of Wiesloch from the middle of the 16th century , although no corresponding settlement or desertification can be proven. Winom can be found in many of the most prominent atlases of the 17th century, for example on the map of Palatinus Rheni in Gerhard Mercator's Atlas Minor . Also features Pieter van den Keere Winom on several cards one, including that of Württemberg from 1619 .
This continues at least until well into the 18th century, also with "big names" in cartography from all over Europe. Winom appears in Nicolas Sanson and the later editions of his maps by Alexis Hubert Jaillot , as well as on the map Palatinatus ad Rhenum by Johann Baptist Homann in 1712 - the latter can even be found in an unaltered reprint in a collective atlas from 1788. Simultaneously Winom was but by no means ubiquitous, so lacking in Guillaume Delisle's maps of the region every trace of the fictional town, and also the Charter Palatine of Christian Mayer not listed.
In Winom the phenomenon of the "Mountains of Kong" (" Kong Mountains "), an equally fictional mountain range, which was recorded on many maps of Africa in the 19th century, its local historical forerunner in southern Germany. The meaning of Winom as well as the "Kong Mountains" is twofold: On the one hand, as evidence that the cartographers literally " copied " content , and on the other hand as evidence of the fundamentally critically questioned authority of maps as " text " (" This is there. ”).
Mention of Winom on other cards
- 1558: Caspar Vopelius : Recens et Germana Bicornis ac vuidi Rheni omnium Germaniae Amnium celeberrimi descriptio, additis Fluminib [us]. Electorum Provinsiis, Ducat., Comita., Oppi. et Castris Praecipuis magna cum diligentia ac sumptib. collecta , digitized via Gallica
- 1622: Nicolaes Visscher : Nieuwe, En Warachtighe Beschryvinghe Van Dde Ober en Nederelsas, Wirtenberg, Neder-Phaltz, Lotharingen, T'Bisdom Mentz En Trier, Mitsgaders de Landen Daer Aen Grensende , digitized version of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center, zoom on Winom and overall map ,
- 1708: Alexis Hubert Jaillot & Nicolas Sanson : Partie Orientale du La Palatinat et Electorat du Rhein , digitized via David Rumsey Map Collection
literature
- Jörg Kreutz and Berno Müller (eds.): The Rhine-Neckar region in old maps. Historical maps from the Herbert Kempf collection, catalog accompanying the exhibition in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district archive, Ladenburg, June 20 - September 1, 2017 , Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3932102363
- John Brian Harley: The New Nature of Maps. Essays in the History of Cartography , Edited by Paul Laxton (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks), Baltimore, Md 2001, ISBN 9780801870903
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guesswork about the village of Winom - Mannheimer Morgen. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ^ Digital collections / Palatinatus Rheni [1]. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Palatinatus ad Rhenum. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Guillaume Delisle, Le Cours du Rhin depuis Strasbourg, jusqu'a Worms et le pays adjacens. - Digitized at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ Thomas J. Bassett, Philip W. Porter: "From the Best Authorities": The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa . In: The Journal of African History . tape 32 , 1991, pp. 367-413 , JSTOR : 182661 .