THE WALKENDORFF TOWER,  BERGEN

ITEM #3842

PRICE   $35.00

Dimensions of the engraved area in inches, minus margins, 6.50 by 9.50, and the overall size is approx. 9.50 by 12.50 with a generous margin. This is not a modern reproduction or reprint. This is a vintage wood engraving, an exquisite antique print, in very good condition and guaranteed to be as described.

Genuine antique engraving titled The Walkendorff Tower, Bergen. Published in Picturesque Europe in 1879.
 From the Web:

Vågen is the heart of Bergen and the main reason for its being there at all. The concept "World Heritage Bergen - the Historic Town Centre", therefore embraces primarily those parts of the town that are directly connected with Vågen or are a function of Vågen in the form of urban structure, street plan or economy. This covers the entire medieval town with the royal and ecclesiastical centre at Holmen (Bergenhus) and its ancillary institutions, the late medieval extension to Strandsiden, the post-Medieval town including the sixteenth-century filling-in of the inner end of Vågen, the seventeenth-century fortifications, the eighteenth and nineteenth-century development in Vågsbunnen, Marken and on Nordnes, as well as the area of the 1916 fire. This is identical to the archaeologically protected zone under the Cultural Heritage Act, and also corresponds roughly to Bergen as shown on Hieronymus Scholeus` engraving of the city from about 1580, Isaac van Geelkerck`s map of the Bergen fortifications from 1646 and von Heinen`s map with reconstruction plan after the 1702 fire.

The true medieval town lies between the Bergenhus/Sverresborg fortresses and the present Cathedral. It is within these limits that the main features of medieval Bergen are to be found, with the seats of royal and ecclesiastical power at Bergenhus, the medieval harbour at Bryggen and the medieval housing area in Vågsbunnen.