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Principatus Silesiae Schwidnicensis Secundum ...
Johann Wolfgang Wieland1736-1752
Ossoliński National Institute
Wrocław, Poland
“Principatus Silesiae Schwidnicensis Secundum ejus de. circulos Schweidnitz, Striegau, Bolckenhain-Landeshut & Reichenbach”
The map includes numerous elements of economic infrastructure: roads, water mills, windmills, brickyards, paper mills, lime kilns, vineyards, quarries, silver and copper mines, glassworks and ironworks centres. The decorations around the title cartouche provide information about selected professions practised in the principality. These include, for example, hunting, raw material mining, weaving, glassmaking and mineral water extraction.
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- Title: Principatus Silesiae Schwidnicensis Secundum ...
- Creator: Johann Wolfgang Wieland
- Date Created: 1736-1752
- Location Created: Nuremberg, Germany
- Physical Dimensions: Atlas map, dimensions 55 × 81 cm. Scale approx. 1:123 000. In the upper left corner the title of the map in a lavishly decorated cartouche, in the upper right corner a decorative cartouche 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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