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
We have added new allied maps from Western
and South Europe, mainly from the collection of McMaster University w
Ontario, and University of Texas (as well as our own):
- (literature):
conventional signs on post-WW2 Polish topographic maps, scale 1:5,000 and
1:10,000. 2nd edition,
- (literatura):
a
full version of the publication already available, "Reichsamt fuer
Landesaufnahme und seine Kartenwerke", 1931. This time with all map
inserts and photos.
- (literatura)
– A brochure in German, also dated 1931, „Neue Wege der Kartenherstellun
im Reichsamt fuer Landesaufnahme†(New methods of map-making in RfL).
Interesting texts on developments of the 1:25,000 Messtischblatt
(Topographische Karte) and the future of a new 1:50 000 German map
(Deutsche Karte).
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
