Grund Riss der Herzoglich Wutemberg Haupt und ersten Residenz Stadt Stuttgardt

Map of Stuttgart, with below a view of the city and the numerical legend with the 143 key-references. On the left is the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Württemberg, and on the right is a horse, an animal featured in the current coat of arms of Stuttgart.

Bottom left is the signature of the author Dessiné par J.L. Roth; bottom right is the signature of the engraver of the plate gravé par M. Balleis Elève de L' Academie Militaire à Stouttgardt.

The map is oriented north, and depicts the Königstraße (then "Großer Graben"), which runs horizontally across the image.

The city of Stuttgart, its compact part, rises in a place circumscribed and sheltered by a crown of fertile hills in Baden-Württemberg, crossed by the Nesenbach stream (now almost completely silted up) whose course bisected the basin, lapped the ancient city, feeding the moat of its walls, and flowed into the Neckar River, an important tributary of the Rhine, at a bend in it manned by the town of Cannstatt (today's Bad Cannstatt).  The ancient core of the city of Stuttgart settled in the center of this natural 'basin' which, as the beautiful topographical maps of the time illustrate, was bounded by the new city wall, which also incorporated large open spaces, intended for vegetable gardens, parks and public gardens, fed by the waters of the Nesenbach stream.

Jakob Ludwig Roth's plan appears to be of extreme rarity.

Etching, printed on contemporary virgin paper, copperplate trimmed, in very good condition.

Bibliografia

Gustav Wais, Stuttgart im neunzehnten Jahrhundert: 150 Bilder mit stadtgeschichtlichen, baugeschichtlichen und kunstgeschichtlichen Erläuterungen. Stuttgart 1955; Gustav Wais, Stuttgart vor der Zerstörung. 134 Bilder mit stadtgeschichtlichen, baugeschichtlichen und kunstgeschichtlichen Erläuterungen. Stuttgart 1959.