During his four-year stay in Vienna, the Dessau envoy Bernhard Georg Andermüller (16441717) drew a fascinating map of early modern Vienna, presumably on behalf of his Anhalt employers. In it, the ambassador meticulously recorded the places of residence and decision-making centers of the Vienna residence in the dying age of Leopold I, in the sense of a diplomats own testimony from a bourgeois city to a residence and aristocratic city after the second siege of the city by the Ottomans: the fortress of Vienna, the re-formation of the Catholic world and the nobility are clearly reflected in it.
Geb. 1950, / befasst sich mit Fragen der vergleichenden Städtegeschichte der mittelalterlichen Epoche sowie der Geschichte Wiens im Besonderen.
Martin Scheutz is ao. Professor at the Institute for Austrian History Research at the University of Vienna.