Karte der Wachau—Kremstal & Kamptal—vineyards wine region map—Lechner c1920
£280
SKU: P-6-112386
[Karte der Wachau] (Map of the Wachau)
Lechner’s Karte der Wachau is a walker’s map of one of Europe’s great wine landscapes, following the Danube past terraced vineyards from Melk to Krems and Langenlois. It spans the Wachau, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the neighbouring Kremstal and Kamptal, famous for Grüner Veltliner and Riesling. It is built on the 1:75,000 survey made by the Military Geographical Institute, the Austro-Hungarian army’s mapmakers in Vienna. The survey’s finely hatched hills give the valley real depth, and Lechner’s colour-coded footpaths wind across them past mountain huts and lookout towers. The vineyards are coloured brown and marked with a fine pattern of dots, matching the symbol for “Weingarten”, or vineyard, in the Institute’s 1904 key, so the vine-covered slopes around Wösendorf, Dürnstein, Gobelsburg and Zöbing stand out clearly. Because the map shows where vines grew a century ago, it invites comparison with today: some steep terraces, such as those at Heudürr near Dürnstein, now lie abandoned, while the Singerriedel at Spitz has been replanted over the past thirty years. The map is undated, but it shows the Wachau railway, opened along the north bank in December 1909, and its cover label omits the imperial court title Lechner used before the First World War, so it probably dates from the 1920s. Dissected into fifteen linen-backed panels, it folds into labelled cloth covers.
Size 50 x 63 cm | 19.5 x 24.5 inches
Date Published: Early 20th century, probably 1920s (inferred)
Type: Antique folding wine region walking map, colour-lithographed, dissected and mounted on linen.
Author: Militärgeographisches Institut / Lechner
Publication: Karte der Wachau
Condition: Good |
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