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HOEFNAGEL,  GEORG: VIEW OF THE TOWN OF KOSTAJNICA

HOEFNAGEL, GEORG: VIEW OF THE TOWN OF KOSTAJNICA

Inventory number 157
Original title: Castanowiz: Croatia Propugnaculum
Publishing year: 1617
Place of publishing and publisher: Köln
Format: 32,5 x 44,5 cm
Technique: Coloured copper engraving

After being forced out of Petrinja, in 1596, Turks established a new defense position on the river Una. Kostajnica became this way the key-fortress that guarded the northwest entrance to Bosnia. Because of its exceptional strategic importance, the Hapsburg military cartographers made in secret a sketch of Kostajnica and the nearby land. The best succeeded of the views of Kostajnica created at that occasion was exactly the map made by Georg Hoefnagel. It was included in the 1618 edition of "Topography" published by Braun.  It shows Kostajnica as it was while being entirely under Turkish rule. The settlement consisted, the same as today, of three distinct parts: the greater part of the settlement comprising a Turkish-style centre (which is today Bosanska Kostajnica) situated on the right-side bank of the river Una. A wooden bridge provided a way across the river Una connecting the old town with the river islet and the fortress on it, as well as with the part of Kostajnica on the left riverbank (present-day Hrvatska Kostajnica). The title of the map is across the upper margin edge.

HOEFNAGEL, GEORG
HOEFNAGEL, GEORG [JORIS] (1542-1600), a Belgian painter and topographer. Travelling around the world, he created over 100 vedute for the work Civitates Orbis Terrarum. This monumental work in six volumes was published by Georg Braun  (1541-1622), a German topographer and geographer, and the famous Frans [Francius] Hogenberg (1535-1590), a Flemish artist and copper-plate engraver who engraved maps for the famous Ortelius’s atlas entitled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. In the period from 1573 to 1590, together with Georg Braun he published several editions of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, which was entitled Theatrum nobiliu oppidorum orbis terrarum, Colonia Agr. 1576 in its edition from 1576.
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