Murerplan

The Murerplan is a woodcut of the city of Zurich Zurich stained-glass artist and cartographer Jos Murer from the year 1576th

Plan

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Inspired by view plans of other cities ( Venice, Strassburg, Augsburg, Basel, etc.) wanted to put his native town a monument Jos Murer. Since its glass painting workshop at this time received a few orders to Murer went down father of twelve children, think of something. Equipped with a, Mesz - Schybe ' or incremental he surveyed the area within the city walls and transferred it to canvas. Then he walked off the streets and recorded every house and every tree from the same direction. This created a colored painting on canvas of the city in the fascinating bird's eye view in the size of the later woodcut, but with much more details. The Council took the painting " with trefflichem well pleased" contrary to and revered Master generous 200 pounds (100 florins ). This image is gone.

In the Zurich Council sat and the printer Christoph Froschauer, the ' recognized the potential of this, the city plan. If he would be able to reproduce it, you could sell it in many copies. Murer transferred the original oil on thin paper. Then it was on six plates made ​​of pear wood, each 45 x 45 cm mirrored " torn ". The form Schneider Ludwig Friyg began in his workshop at the Froschaugasse with great art and unspeakable exertions all the parts that should be in the later impression would cut away. Smaller fonts were added later on separate strips of wood. 1576, the plan was printed in spite of military concerns.

Since the Gross Münster fell right on an intersection, it has its own printing block was provided. The footprint of the cathedral had to be exactly cut out and glued to the finished image. However, the first Grossmünsterplatz Print Stock seems to have been lost or destroyed, as the cliché comes obviously not obtained by Murer and Friyg, which can be readily seen from the modified representation. He was probably built about 1610.

The plan is extremely rich in details and therefore serves as a source for the state in the 16th century. Zurich had retained its medieval appearance from the 13th century to this time into it, even if the wooden houses were gradually replaced by stone. The expansion of the city over the medieval walls and also an actual city planning began in the 17th century, as an additional jumps were built in connection with the Thirty Years' War. The frogs ditch at the bottom of the plan reflects the current Bahnhofstrasse. When Rennwegtor the main entrance was to the city. In the lower left corner, at the confluence of the Sihl and Limmat, today the main train station.

Requirements

1st edition in 1576 (?): Christoffel Froschauer Younger, Zurich ( From this edition is not a copy demonstrated) 2nd edition 1670 Bodmer shear bookstore, Zurich. ( Also, this edition is certainly by no printing used) 3rd edition 1700: printers and publishers are not known (possibly Gessner? ) 4th Edition, 1766: Captain John Hofmeister, Zurich ( recognizable by the publisher Note: To find in Zurich, bey captain Hofmeister, bookbinder at the Rose Gass, 1766 ) 5th edition 1859/60: Orell, Füssli & Co., Zurich ( Publisher Note, in imitation of the old pressure and age- Language: trucked and have bey Christoff Froschowers successors Orell, Füssli and Comp in Zurich. . ) 6th edition 1918: Fritz Amberger ( Friedrich Gustav Amberger ), Zurich (publisher indicated in the lower right corner, in the waves of the Limmat. Jm MDCCCCXVIII Jar trucked by Fritz Amberger vormalen David Bürklj. ) 7th edition 1966: Publisher Emil Matthieu, Zurich edition of 500 numbered copies bearing the words printed and have at E.Matthieu, Zurich MCMLXVI. 8th edition 1996: Peter Kneubuehler, Zurich for the Survey Office of the City of Zurich ( edition of 500 numbered copies bearing the words: MCMXCVI printed by Peter Kneubuehler, Zurich " in the lower left corner of the Planvedute and " One Hundred Years Survey Office of Zurich MDCCCXCVI city - MCMXCVI in the scale cartridge).

Because today more than four hundred years and slightly bent by age woodcuts would no longer hold the mechanical pressure in the press, the 7th and the 8th edition one sheet were rubbed laboriously by hand. This chronology is, above all, what the early editions arrives - not final. The forms are in the possession of the State Archives.