Thirty Years War 1618-48 / Prehistory: Blocking of the Protestant Wenceslas Church in Braunau (Bohemia), December 1617. - "The Royal Commissaries close and seal the Protestant church at Braunau and hand over the key to the landlord, the local Benedictine abbey". - Feather lithograph, old coloured, unmarked. From: L. Flathe, Gustav Adolf and the Thirty Years War, 2nd Bd., Dresden (Eduard Pietzsch) 1841, before p. 319. Berlin, Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte.