{"product_id":"carte-ancienne-augsbourg-1963","title":"Antique map - Augsburg 1963","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerspective plan of \u003cstrong\u003eAugsburg\u003c\/strong\u003e (Augsburg) in \u003cstrong\u003e1963 \u003c\/strong\u003e: the city of the Fuggers and Diesel, with its UNESCO-listed canals, rebuilt after the war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003eThis perspective map shows \u003cstrong\u003eAugsburg\u003c\/strong\u003e, Augsburg in German, in 1963. At that time, the city was in West Germany, in Bavaria (Bayern), in the region of Upper Bavaria (Schwaben). It is located at the confluence of the Lech and the Wertach, and the Lech runs along the top of the map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003eThe map also features the city's Roman name, Augusta Vindelicorum, inscribed in its frame. It was founded around 15 BC as a military camp by Drusus and Tiberius, the step-sons of Emperor Augustus, after whom it is named. Becoming an Imperial Free City in 1276, it gave its name to the Augsburg Confession (1530) and the Peace of Augsburg (1555). Bertolt Brecht was born there in 1898, and Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus's father, in 1719.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003ePlaces and neighborhoods shown:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\n\n\u003cli class=\"\"\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eThe Fuggerei\u003c\/strong\u003e - founded in 1521 by the merchant Jakob Fugger, it is the oldest still-inhabited social housing complex in the world: 67 houses, 142 apartments, an annual rent of 0.88 euros, equivalent to one Rhenish florin, and three daily prayers for the founder's family. Largely destroyed during the Second World War, it was rebuilt to its original design.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli class=\"\"\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eThe canals and water system\u003c\/strong\u003e - the Lech feeds a network of approximately 90 kilometers of canals. The Wasserwerk am Roten Tor, built in 1414, is Germany's oldest waterworks. This \"Augsburg Water Management System,\" consisting of 22 sites in total, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 6, 2019.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli class=\"\"\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eMAN and Rudolf Diesel\u003c\/strong\u003e - the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg factory, whose abbreviation MAN appears on the map, saw the birth of the Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel, born in Paris in 1858 to an Augsburg family, developed his engine there from 1893 to 1897. This industry earned it the nickname \"German Manchester\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli class=\"\"\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eThe railway station and its track junction\u003c\/strong\u003e - the vast railway junction at the bottom of the map recalls that Augsburg was a major railway hub in southern Germany.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli class=\"\"\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eThe rebuilt center\u003c\/strong\u003e - the February 1944 raid targeted the city center, the Messerschmitt factories, and the railway station. The old town was largely rebuilt after the war: in 1963, the map shows the city eighteen years after the end of the conflict.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eCartographic reference:\u003c\/strong\u003e this is a perspective plan, with the red roofs of the houses drawn one by one among the trees, rather than a flat plan. The frame bears the date of 1963, the north arrow (\"Norden\"), and a grid from A to K and 1 to 8. It also contains three quotes: Tacitus describes Augusta as a \"very brilliant colony of the province of Raetia\", the humanist Urbanus Rhegius writes in 1522 that he had never seen anything more brilliant or more beautiful than Augsburg, and Stefan Zweig declares in 1930 that he owes the city one of the strongest visual impressions he ever received from a German city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"\"\u003eIn short:\u003c\/strong\u003e for anyone with ties to Augsburg or Bavaria, who loves the history of the Fuggers and Diesel, or collects perspective plans, this map shows an entire city drawn roof by roof.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003eWhat area does this map of Augsburg cover?\u003c\/em\u003e It covers Augsburg (Augsburg) and its surroundings: the historic center, the railway station and its railway junction, the industrial districts, the Lech and its canals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003eIn what year was this map published?\u003c\/em\u003e This map dates from 1963, the year inscribed in its frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eReproduction of the perspective plan \"Augsburg\" (Augusta Vindelicorum), dated 1963.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003ePrinted on 200 g\/m² textured art paper. Landscape orientation, standard 50x70 and 70x100 cm formats: \u003cstrong\u003eeasy to frame\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"cartopolo","offers":[{"title":"50 x 70 cm \/ Creative paper 200 gsm","offer_id":55452888695127,"sku":"BERLI1890A","price":34.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"70 x 100 cm \/ Creative paper 200 gsm","offer_id":55452888727895,"sku":"BERLI1890B","price":59.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/7854\/4418\/files\/AUGSBURG196370x50copieDECORATIONANCIENNE.jpg?v=1792164535","url":"https:\/\/cartopolo.fr\/en\/products\/carte-ancienne-augsbourg-1963","provider":"Cartopolo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}