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20th April 2025 - mapster update
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An update, this time, this time with great help from the Library of
Congress:
- approx. 880 sheets
of a Russian (and Soviet) 1:42,000 maps (so-called one-verst map).
Although the number of sheets is substantial, majority are 'only' new
variants (prints, editions) available earlier. Please let us know if
you find that some new sheets do not seem to relate to the terrain they
are supposed to - mistakes are possible, when handling hundreds of
files it was quite easy to mistake sheet number LXXI with LIXXI, etc.
Some sheets from central Poland, with 'Archiwum WIG' stamp are
available in a 1/4 size, and further marked, presumably in AMS, as NE,
SE, SW and NW. Soviet editions (1926 - 1939 which show the areas of
pre-WW2 Poland and Lithuania, are a compilation of pre-1914 Tsarist
editions, sometimes updated from post-WW1 Polish and Lithuanian maps,
so please, treat what you see on the map with some... caution.
- approx. 70 sheets of
the AMS M752 map of East Prussia, 1:50 000, which covers the
post-WW2 Kaliningrad Oblast and some parts of north-eastern Poland (a
few missing sheets should become available from other libraries,
hopefully by end of this year). Please note, while the maps were
published between 1954 - 1963, they actually show the situation for
1930 - 1944, as they are a mere combination / compilation of 1:25 000 -
1:50 000 German, Polish, and Soviet maps.
- Two sub-variants of
German 1:300, 000 (Uebersichskarte von Mitteleuropa, Osteuropa),
both prepared by German Wehr-geo units tasked with production of maps,
mainly for defence of a given area:
- 4 sheets "Karte der Wasserstandsschwankungen an Flüssen und Seen in
Gebiete Petersburg-Ilmansee" (Map of water level fluctuations on rivers
and lakes in the Petersburg-Ilmansee region) dated 1943 roku. Probably
belonged to a "Mil-Geo Beschreibung' (Geographical-Military Description
volume) for the region.
- 7 sheets (including 3 copies, prorably, post-WW2, US-made), they can
be called, in short 'Gewässerkarte' (Map of water obstacles). As they
are semi-manuscripts and we have found no other, finished editions of
this type in any other library, we can assume it was a trial,
abandoned, perhaps later conslidated into a Mil-Geo edition of
1:300,000 map.
- 1 sheet of
Grossblatt (2433), :100,000 from a very rare series of
Geographical-Military maps of Germany
(Militaergeographische Einzelangaben Deutschland) produced between 1939
- 1945. As can ce seen from Mapster index and the
AMS indexes from 1950 and 1951, a significant number of
sheets were produced, but they're very hard to find in libraries,
possibly due to a-typical numbering.
- 1 sheet of AMS
1:100, 000 series M641 'Central Europe', K6 Rostock, a
variant with simplified situation, but including an overprint of
defence positions, dated beginning of May 1945. Unfortunately, a few
other sheets available in the library were in such a poor state that it
would have taken too much time to prepare them for scanning.
- Soviet 1: 1mln map
of Poland from 1954
- nGerman WW2 plan of
a Russian / Soviet town of Niznij Nowgorod, dated 1941, happened to be
at hand at the right time and place, so ended up getting scanner.
Hey, Marek! Trying to access maps at your page "Other Central European Maps, via both Chrome and Opera browsers, I get the dialog box "File not found (404 error)
If you think what you'r
Hello: I do Polish Genealogy. I need a topo map of Poland with major cities which I’ve never been able to find on the WEB. It should show post partition Poland with an out line of pre-partition Pola
Hi:
Are there any other maps showing parishes such as:
Andrzej Tomczak
Siec parafialna
Wojewoddztwa pomorskiego
Okregu bytowskiego I leborskiego
W drugiej polowie xvi wieku
Skala 1:300.
Thanks
