Michael Wening (1645-1718), who was born in Nuremberg, was appointed court engraver in Munich in 1669. He began work on his topographical study of Bavarian towns, churches and castles in 1696, after having received the right to publish from Maximillian Emanuel, Duke of Bavaria, and brought out four volumes, entitled Historico-topographica Descriptio, between 1701 and 1726, now rare.