Principatus Silesiae Oelsnensis in suos districtus Oels Bernstadt et Trebnitz ...
Johann Wolfgang Wieland1736-1752
Ossoliński National Institute
Wrocław, Poland
“Principatus Silesiae Oelsnensis in suos districtus Oels Bernstadt et Trebnitz divisi exactissima tabula geographica, exhibens insimul circumjacentes Dynastias liberas Trachenberg et Militsch, cum statibus minoribus Freyhain, Neuschlos, Goschütz et Zulauf”
The map includes elements related to the economy: roads, water mills, ponds, windmills, brickyards and ironworking centres. The decorations around the cartouche, in addition to their symbolic content, present occupations followed by the inhabitants: fishing in the pond, as well as the archaeological discoveries made at the beginning of the 18th century in Masłów in the Duchy of Oleśnica.
- Title: Principatus Silesiae Oelsnensis in suos districtus Oels Bernstadt et Trebnitz ...
- Creator: Johann Wolfgang Wieland
- Date Created: 1736-1752
- Location Created: Nuremberg, Germany
- Physical Dimensions: Atlas map, dimensions 56 × 81 cm. Scale ca. 1:158 000. Decorative cartouche with the title of the map in the upper right corner, rectangular pedestal in the lower left corner with an explanation of the signs and scale bars. Technique: coloured copperplate engraving
- Provenance: National Ossoliński Institute
- Type: map
- Contributor: Matthäus Schubarth
- Publisher: Homann's heirs
- Medium: paper
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