A set of German
WW2 maps - Russland 1:100 000, has received an update with
some 180 new sheets which come from our
own collection. The map series was produced in 1940 - 1942 and covers the
area of of pre-WW2 Poland. The source material used by the Germans for this
map series was rather... wide (from 1:50,000 maps right up to maps in
1:400,000 scale), so accuracy might be questionable. The full range of
sources can be observed on this German index
sheet.
Please note, some maps are very large, consequently some jpg
files can be up to 90 Mb each!
A new item from the literature section: courtesy of Mr
Ryszard Hubisz we scanned a German publication dated late 1939: "Statistiches
Gemeindeverzeichnis bisherigen polnischen Staates..." (pdf,
approx. 170 MB!).
Its full title: "Statistical catalogue of ethnic communities in the former
Polish state, as per the demarkation line between German-Soviet state
interests established on 28th September 1939"
A fairly substantial publication, approx. 240 pages long (with three maps).
The bulk contains detailed tables on ethnic groups living across Poland. The
book was published by Publikationsstelle Berlin-Dahlem, some information on
their history can be found - in German - in wikipedia, and more details in two
books:
M. Burleigh "Germany turns eastwards. A study of Ostforschung in the Third
Reich",
and
I. Haar & M Fahlbusch
"German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945"
From the library of the Geography Department, Adam Mickiewicz University of
Poznan, Poland, comes an interesting 1935 publication (in Polish) on Bereza
Kartuska: "Bereza Kartuska, wybrane rozdziały z
antropogeografiji miasteczka" - as well as three small
town-plans.
The next larger update to this map series can be expected by
mid-2017.
From the same collection a few interesting town plans:
- Posen(including
street names on the reverse), Petrikau (Piotrków Trybunalski)
& Tomaschow
(Tomaszów Mazowiecki) – all of them are German plans dated 1944,
- Karthaus
(Kartuzy) – unfortunately only one of the unknown number
of very detailed (1:2,500) plan produced by the Hauptvermessungsabteilung
XV (Danzig) in 1942.
There is also something we overlooked to mention, i.e. at the beginning of
September we added a large number of Romanian maps from geo-spacial.org
project:
- 1:20
000,
- 1:100
000,
If you are looking for other editions of the 1:100,000 maps, some might be
found among WW2 British copies of the same series (GSGS 4417 Romania 1:100,00) from
the collection of McMaster
University, Canada.
Courtesy of and with great help of the Geography
Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin it has
been possible to make available some 990 sheet of the German 1:25,000 World
War I map from the Eastern Front. The maps cover the area of what is now
central Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine.
The index sheet for this map type (large, therefore takes a moment to load)
can be found HERE
A (very long!) list of new sheets is HERE.
An index sheet for the probable area coverage of this map type, from 1920s,
produced by Polish Wojskowy Insytutu Geograficzny is HERE.
Most of the maps is based on Russian 1-verst map (1:42,000), some others are
re-scaled two-verst (1:84,000) maps, so most place names are in cirillic
script, with only some transliterrated into Latin. Relatively few sheets
dated 1916 - 1918 are re-drawn and updated by German front-line survey
units, e.g. sheets XIII-20, XIV-21, XIV-22, XVI-20-H-I, XVII-20-A, E,
XVII-20-F, XX-20-B, E, G, XXI-20-A-B, XXII-20-G, XXIII-14-C, F, XXIX-17-H,
XXX-17-B.
Also, with permission of the Geography
Department of the Uniwersytet Åódzki, Poland, we have been
able to scan further 36 sheets of the same map type from central Poland.
These maps are relatively detailed and show a vast area of Eastern Europe
where mass-migration, mostly to America, took place at the turn of 20th
century and where, soon after, "The Great War" of 1914 - 1918 was fought. As
most of those areas were never, until mid-1950s, properly surveyed and
cartographed, the German maps remain probably the only available source of
detailed historic information. As to the fate of the Russian maps which had
been the source of these German maps, we have found no trace of them yet.
Also, from the same collection of the Humboldt University of Berlin, there
is a set of 29 sheets of Soviet 1:25,000 map series dated 1939, based on an
older, Russian 1:21,000 map (half-verst) which partly overlaps with the
German 1:25,000 set mentioned above, and covers, what used to be
central-east Poland, and what is now north-west Ukraine and
Belarus.
Index sheet available HERE
A list of new sheets available HERE
Last but not least, an update to a large set of Austro-Hungarian
maps (Spezialkarte 1:75,000). We have added, from the digital collection of
the New York Public
Library, and the National
and University Library of Slovenia, approx. 1700 sheets of
the Spezialkarte.
Index sheet (VERY large!) can be found HERE
A list of new sheets can be found HERE
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)
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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
