's-Hertogenbosch

Maps on our site:

• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-18
  
  
• 1708, J.B.Gramaye, Antiquitates illustrissimi ducatus Brabantiae

Find more maps:

• 's-Hertogenbosch Dutch City maps from Blaeu's Toonneel der Steden
  Scanned by George M. Welling
  
  
• Maps from Atlas Beudeker, Koninklijke Bibliotheek,
  National Library of the Netherlands and the British Library:
  
  's-Hertogenbosch 1572
  published by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg
  
  's-Hertogenbosch 1649 fortifications of 's-Hertogenbosch 1649
  published by Joan Blaeu
  
  's-Hertogenbosch city view, 1660
  published by Nicolaas Visscher
  
  's-Hertogenbosch 17th century
  engraved by Jacques Harrewijn
  
  
  
• 's-Hertogenbosch stad 1865-1870
  from J. Kuyper's Gemeente Atlas van Nederland
  
  

Located where Dommel & Aa rivers join to form Dieze; chartered by duke Henry I of Brabant in 12th cen.; grew to be important wool center & bishop's seat (1559); was often under siege, since it was located on Catholic-Protestant line of division.

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