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Vlissingen,- Flissinga munitissimu Zelandiae oppidum, tutissimum Nautarum et Nauclerorum domicilium. [Vlissingen] |
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Description
The city wall is clearly seen as are the wooden jetties and many sailing craft of all types. The town was of major strategic importance, due to its location at the entrance to the port of Antwerp. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ...' Part 5. Köln, 1598.
TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: The well-fortified town of Vlissingen in Zeeland, safe harbour for merchants and mariners.
COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on verso); "Vlissingen is one of the noblest cities in Zeeland, situated on the Island of Walacria, opposite Flanders. Around about the year 1400, so the chroniclers record, it was no more than a flat field.
Some 60 years ago Adolphus Burgundus surrounded this town with walls and gates and furnished it with everything that is needed for ships to anchor, so that it can now rIghtly be called a port from where one can easily travel and sail to all parts of the world, above all because it is equipped with a large and convenient harbour, so that all sea-going ships from the east, west and south can put in here. Hence Vlissingen is not wrongly called the key to the Netherlandish Sea."
The bird's-eye view shows the well-fortified port of Vlissingen - also known in English as Flushing - on the south coast of the Walcheren Peninsula in the Dutch province of Zeeland, at the mouth of the Western Schelde.
The elevated angle permits a good overview of the town's layout and fortifications, while a sense of atmosphere is also conveyed by the many ships moored at the two wooden jetties projecting far out into the sea and anchored in the inner harbour. To the right of the town lies a ruined citadel, with behind it the gallows. A small fishing settlement in the 7th century, Vlissingen grew into an important Netherlandish port and was granted its charter in 1315.
Reference: Van der Krogt 4, 4734; Taschen, Braun and Hogenberg, p.390.
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