1843 Meyer print LIEGE LUIK, BELGIUM

Description: 1843 Meyer print LIEGE LUIK, BELGIUM Nice view titled Lüttich in Belgien, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring. Overall size is 18.5 x 26.7 cm, image size is 10.2 x 15.3 cm. Print was published in Germany in Meyer's Universum by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen. Click here or image for larger version Liege, (French), Flemish LUIK, German LÜTTICH, capital of Liege province, eastern Belgium, on the Meuse River at its confluence with the Ourthe. (The grave accent in Liege was officially approved over the acute in 1946.) The site was inhabited in prehistoric times and was known to the Romans as Leodium. A chapel was built there to honour St. Lambert, bishop of Maastricht, who was murdered there in 705. Liege became a town when St. Hubert transferred his see there in 721. Under Notger, its first prince-bishop, it grew in importance as a centre of Liege principality and of the Mosan school of art and as a major European intellectual centre. After it was granted a communal magistracy (1185) and citizens' charter (1195), and the guilds were granted representation on the city council (1303), there was a struggle for power between the guilds and the nobles. The nobles failed in a sudden attack, and their armed party was burned to death by the populace in the church of Saint-Martin in 1312, an event known as Male Saint-Martin. Political equality was granted to the labourers and to most of the trade guilds in 1313. During the 15th-century Burgundian domination of the Netherlands, Liege resisted and was sacked twice by Charles the Bold (1467, 1468). After Charles's death (1477) the city was rebuilt and experienced renewed prosperity in the 16th century under Prince-Bishop Evrard de La Marck. Renewed strife between the prince-bishops and the citizens resulted in the destruction of democratic institutions in 1684. The city was bombarded by the French in 1691 and taken by the English (1702) during the War of the Spanish Succession. A bloodless revolution ended the rule of the nobles in 1789; Liege was annexed to France in 1795 and assigned with the rest of Belgium to The Netherlands in 1815. Its citizens played an important part in the Belgian Revolution in 1830. After Belgium became independent (1830), the city expanded and became a major industrial centre. Fortified in 1891, it became the main bastion of the Meuse defenses and was occupied by the Germans in both world wars; it suffered heavy aerial bombardment in World War II. Now the commercial hub of the industrial Meuse Valley, its industries include iron and steel foundries, glassworks, coal mines, armament factories, and copper refineries. It is the third most important river port in western Europe and the second largest rail centre in Belgium; its airport is in nearby Bierset. The cathedral (the former abbey church of Saint-Paul) contains the reliquaries of St. Lambert and Charles the Bold. Among many other Romanesque and Gothic churches in Liege are Saint-Denis, Saint-Jacques, Saint-Martin, Sainte-Croix (containing a gold triptych from 1150), and Saint-Barthélemy, with a baptismal font (1108). The palace of the prince-bishops (built in the 15th century and repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries) is now the Palais de Justice. Saint-Laurent, an old Benedictine abbey, has been a military hospital since 1796. As the cultural centre of Wallonia (French-speaking Belgium), Liege has concert halls, theatres, an opera, and many fine museums--particularly those of fine arts and of Walloon life, the Ansembourg Museum of decorative art, the archaeological museum (in the Maison Curtius, c. 1600), the arms museum, and the house of the composer César Franck. The state university (1817) was entirely rebuilt in the 1960s on a new site to the south. The Royal Conservatory of Music (1887) is famous for the violin school established by Eugene Ysäye. There are also several national research laboratories and technical schools associated with the major industries of Liege. Pop. (1983 est.) mun., 207,496. Please e-mail me if you have any questions. Buyer pays shipping at cost. I prefer payment by PayPal, but I'll also accept any other payment method and currency (except direct payment by credit card) that is convenient for buyer. I combine shipping of multiple items. IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SHIPPING: Price quoted with auction is for surface mail, which is the same regardless of destination. When auction ends I'll give you option of airmail and insurance. If shipping address is within Europe I recommend surface mail, you don't gain much time with airmail, it is just more expensive.

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