Print of a view of the (old) city of hanover from the east, which is only partially realistic, for example from the location of the former village of linden, which is not even indicated here by a path or the river crossing over the ihme. Even the subtitle ". In the 16th century" is probably wrong, since the fortification of the calenberg new town (indicated here by the city wall in the foreground) only began after duke georg von calenberg took over hanover's residence in 1636, in the middle of the thirty years' war, i. E. In the 17th century. At least the nikolai chapel can be seen on the left, and the outer and inner stone gates to the right. The outer and inner aegidientor can be seen on the right of the view, and even further to the right is the former marienkapelle. The engraving reproduced (by an as yet unidentified engraver?) comes from the book aus hannovers vorzeit (from hanover's past) published by the historian august jugler (1833-1888). A contribution to german cultural history. With 23 photolithographic illustrations, etc. And was originally printed in 1876 by the aubeldruck-anstalt, aubel & kaiser, lindenhöhe [38 b] near cologne. The digital copy shown here was uploaded to the flickr platform as part of a larger campaign by the british library (instead of directly here on commons), downloaded from there in the largest possible size, then darkened with a photo editing program using "auto contrast" and finally uploaded here. The accompanying text from the book is still missing - and may contain a reference to the original author. Date: circa 1650.
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