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The first detailed plan of Berlin
Plan de la Ville de Berlin
Capitale de l'Electorat de Brandebourg et la Residence Ordinaire du Roi de Prusse.
Berlin and Amsterdam,
Chez le Sr. Neaulm Libraire,
1757
Engraved plan, table to plan to left and right margin, key and scale bar below.
2428
Schmettau's detailed plan of mid eighteenth century Berlin.
To the right and left of the plan is a table listing, roads, public buildings, churches and chapels, parade grounds, bridges, and gardens. The present plan is reduced from Schmettau's plan on four sheets, which he had published as a companion piece (and upon the same scale) to L'Abbé de la Grive's plan of Paris published in 1740.
Samuel Graf von Schmettau (1684-1751) was a successful soldier in the Prussian army. Schmettau retired from the service in 1742 and spent his remaining years in the service of Emperor Charles VII as ambassador to the French court. He was also a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, and a keen surveyor.
To the right and left of the plan is a table listing, roads, public buildings, churches and chapels, parade grounds, bridges, and gardens. The present plan is reduced from Schmettau's plan on four sheets, which he had published as a companion piece (and upon the same scale) to L'Abbé de la Grive's plan of Paris published in 1740.
Samuel Graf von Schmettau (1684-1751) was a successful soldier in the Prussian army. Schmettau retired from the service in 1742 and spent his remaining years in the service of Emperor Charles VII as ambassador to the French court. He was also a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, and a keen surveyor.
