A Virtual Research Environment for
3D Digital Humanities And Heritage

A project is a collection of narratives in 3D and may entail multiple 3D scholary editions.

Maastricht 1748

In 1748, the French military made a scale model of the city of Maastricht to plan their strategic military conquest of the fortified city. This maquette today is stored in the French city of Lille but was in 2017 cleaned and assembled on behalf of the Municipality of Maastricht in order to create a 3D digitization version of the maquette. This project utilizes the 3D model as a way to narrate and reveal the histories of Maastricht from Roman times until the present.

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Creator(s)

Eric Wetzels

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Subjects

Maastricht
Maquette
French military
scale model

Editions

The Church of Our Lady and its Claustral Belt

The Onze Lieve Vrouweplein, or Church of Our Lady, is one of two prominent squares in the city of Maastricht that has witnessed 2000 years of history. It was once the setting of a major religious chapter for the city where chapter lords lived and maintained the buildings and community functions of the religious complexes. This 3D edition reveals some of that history through an annotated model of the French military maquette from 1748 and two guided tours that walk through the broad historical moments the square has witnessed as well as historical contextualization to the naming of the streets surrounding the square.