The 1727 relief plan
The fortified city as a military model to walk around.
Yann Caradec from Paris, France — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Thomas Bresson — CC BY 3.0 · Ji-Elle — CC BY-SA 4.0 · DCHNwam — Public domain
Gutenberg spent his early experimental years in Strasbourg (1430s) before completing his press in Mainz — so the city claims to be the experiment's cradle, with a square and statue in his name. Strasbourg was among early Europe's great printing cities, half its free-republic glory.
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The Historical Museum tells Strasbourg's story from the Middle Ages: in a sixteenth-century former slaughterhouse on the river, it shows how the city became a powerful free republic in the Holy Roman Empire, a centre of printing, humanism and the Reformation, then French, then German, then French. Its jewel is the huge relief plan of 1727 — a precise French military model of the fortified city, walked around to see eighteenth-century Strasbourg whole from above. It holds arms, costume, prints and paintings explaining the city where Gutenberg worked part of his revolution. A model city museum for grasping the place before walking it — and the building itself on the river is lovely, near the Ponts Couverts and Petite France.
The fortified city as a military model to walk around.
Strasbourg of printing, Reformation and humanism.
2 rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Poissons, 67000 Strasbourg