![16th-century Map of Mechelen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/16th-century_Map_of_Mechelen.jpg)
Jan Van Hanswijk (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
late 16th century) was a Flemish surveyor and cartographer, best known for making a map of the city of
Mechelen
Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...
, completed in the last quarter of the 16th century.
His map is the second oldest preserved city map of Mechelen.
[ Differently from Jacob van Deventer, who had made an earlier map, he depicted all important city buildings in his own map. After two centuries the map was in such a bad state that the Count of Coloma commissioned a copy from Jan Baptist De Noter.][
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16th-century births
16th-century Flemish cartographers
People from Mechelen