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KUK (Austro-Hungarian) maps
1Austro-Hungarian
maps, produced (with some exceptions) by state-run K.u.K. MGI.
(Kaiserlich undKöniglich Militaergeografisches Institut,
Military-Geographic Institute).
Most of the map types, such
as “Specialkarte“, 1:75 000
scale, 1:200 000 and 1:300,000 have now been "outsourced" to Mapster,
and you will see the links to the appropriate index sheets below.
Naturally, the maps are available for download as before, and we would
recommend right-clicking on a link to download a scan to the computer,
as some files are rather large.
nb, a full set of 1:200,000 maps is available from the well-known
source of www.lazarus.elte.hu;
"our" sheets are far from complete, but at higher resolution, in case
you need it.
Other Austrian maps, 1:200 000 and 1:750 000, are either
joint sheets, or general maps, published during WW1 or shortly after,
showing the areas where fighting took place.
Individual town plans, if available, will be displayed on the
town
plans page, with the exception of the plans (currently Lemberg and
Czarnowitz) which belong to the Kummerer map series shown below.
Last update 23 April 2013
A so-called "Liesganik map”, scale 1:288,000,
covering Galicia, dated late 18th / early 19th century. The map title,
in its full glory,
has been reproduced below:
KOENIGREICH
GALIZIEN UND LODOMERIEN
HERAUSGEGEBEN IM JAHRE 1790 VON LIESGANIG.
NACH
DEN VORZÜGLICHSTEN NEUERN HÜLFSQUELLEN VERMEHRT und
VERBESSERT
VON
DEM
K.K. OEST. GENERALQUARTIERMEISTERSTABE
IM JAHRE 1824
"1
map set in 33 sheets, copperplate engraving, each sheet 24x32 cm, paper
size 34x46 cm ; Scale [ca 1:288 000], oesterreichische Strassenmeile,
jade zu 4000
Wiener Klafter oder einem Wiener Zolle ; [2nd edition] ; Title take
from "Tab.1" sheet. One transversal and two linear scales under the
title; etcher's signature:
D. Huber sc; Terrain features presented in hachures and pictograms;
Each sheet contains, by the frame, sheet numbers of adjoining sheets.
All sheets with common frame; Statistical tables presented in "Tab. II"
sheet, with the following description: Politische Eintheilung und
Statistische übersicht von dem
Köenigreich Galizien und Lodomerien and a scheme of church
administrative division
Kirchliche Eintheilung; Sheet "Tab VI" contains index to all the
sheets; Tab. XIX and XX contain the legend: Zeichen Erklaerung (...)"
Administrativ
Karte von den
Königreichen Galizien...
An interesting map of Galicia, from mid-19th century, with a somewhat
convoluted title:
“Kummerer C.R. von Kummersberg, 1855: Administrativ Karte von den
Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien mit den Grossherzogthume Krakau
und den Herzogthümern Auschwitz, Zator und Bukowina”,
Scale: 1:115 000. Publisher:
Verlag und Eigenthum von Artatia, Wien
The
set consists of 60 sheets. File resolution
400 dpi (new files 300 dpi). Sheets are “black-and-white”
(notwithstanding the yellowing,
understandable, as they are over 150 years old). Some sheets (index,
plan of Lemberg) are photocopies, a few other sheets are missing
margins and, as was the fashion in those time, were cut up and glued to
a piece of strong cloth)
The only sheet we have of an
interesting map
set of 18 sheets, scale 1:10,000, called “Festungs-Umgebungsplan von
Krakau" covering Cracow and the surrounding countryside. Probably
re-scaled 1:25,000 map or based on it. Sheet in colour, file size 36.7
Mb, 400 dpi: FESTUNGS-UMGEBUNGSPLAN
VON KRAKAU GEBULTOW Blatt 9
A map or, strictly speaking, a diagram of telephone and telepgraph
lines, dated 1912. The map covers not only Galicia, but extends far
beyond it, into Imperial Russia too. We have 2 resolutions available,
the 200 dpi version is more than sufficient to read details (18 Mb),
but if you are not satisfied, 300 dpi (35 Mb) is also available) Telegraphen-
und Telephonkarte (200 dpi) Telegraphen-
und
Telephonkarte (300 dpi)
Sheets of
Austro-Hungarian 1:25,000 map. Each of them covers the area
equivalent to ¼ of one 1:75,000 map (Specialkarte), and sheet numbers
correspond to the Specialkarte too. Thus 1:25 000 sheet with a number
“4572/2”, is the top-right (or north-east) quarter of a 1:75,000 map No
4572 (Porohy).
Please not that the sheets below are probably original photographic
plate, or some other copy, similar to those received by WIG after WW1
from Austria, which were later used to produce WIG 1:25,000 provisional
editon maps covering the area of south Poland previously occupied by
the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 5-XXI
S.O.
8-XXXI
S.O (showing the area east
of a village of Gnila Lipa (Гнила Липа, literally
“rotten linden tree” , currently in the Ukraine. Unknown date 27 Mb.
400 dpi.
10-XXXI-NO
A very interesting 1:25 000 sheet from the area around Stanisławów
(iвано-Франківськ), showing the extent of field fortifications (trench
lines), ("Ausg. B, 1916", approx. 20 Mb) 4472/4
(Dolina). 300 dpi, 23.9 Mb
An irregular and interesting, due to the scale (1:50,000) map,
showing the area near a small town of Koden, in eastern Poland
(currently by the border with Belarus), possibly one of several sheets
showing the approaches to the (then) Russian stronghold of Brzesc
(Litewski). Based on Russian 1:42,000 map (one-verst map): Koden
und Umgebung, 1:50,000, 1904 (13 Mb)
Umgebungsplan von Prag
A
map, or a plan of Prague and the surrounding area, dated 2nd half of
19th century. Scale 1:28,800. 9 sheets plus an index sheet, resolution:
400 dpi. Complete set available in Mapster
Austro-Hungarian
“Specialkarte”
The most famous and recognizeable Austro-Hungarian map,
“Specialkarte”, 1:75 000. Resolution varies, because sheets come from
various sources and were scanned on various equipment.
Joint sheets of Specialkarte
1:75,000, with added green for forested areas,
400 dip, approx. 1917. Map “titles” are arbitrary, since the sheets
(printed in field conditions) do not contain headers. Czernowitz
- Chotim - Kamieniec-Podolsk (46.5 Mb) Petroutz
- Czernowitz - Chotim (61.4 Mb)
Lublin and surrounding area, map
dated 1917, also shown administrative boundaries (the area was occupied
by Austro-Hungary from 1915 onwards) Lublin
i okolice 46 Mb
Austrian copy
of a Russian 3-verst map (1:126,000)
covering
central and eastern parts of Poland, the Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania.
Probably based on the very same Russian edition utilized at exactly the
same time by the German military cartographers, to produce German
version of the same map. However, the Austrian editions appears to be
more legible, with some sheets hand-coloured. Sheets available in Mapster
Generalkarte
von Mitteleuropa 1:200,000
Generalkarte
von Mitteleuropa, (General Map of Central Europe), published
from 1889 onwards, in 266 sheets. With the end of WW1 and the collapse
of Austro-Hungarian Empire, the map was copied (with minor adjustments
and updates)
in Poland, Hungary and Austria, developed further in Czechoslovakia,
and during WW2 copied
and developed further by the Third Reich until the end of the war.
After World War 2 still developed, at least to some degree, in
Czechoslovakia. A complete set of original,
Austro-Hungarian sheets can be seen and downloaded at: www.lazarus.elte.hu
Generalkarte
von Central-Europa 1:300 000
Interesting,
albeit rather simplified map (1:300,000), covers the whole of Europe,
dated
approx. 1976 - 1880. Majority of sheets below show the area of Central
and Eastern Europe. A rather dated, manual “updating” technique is
worth
pointing out (see the newer editions of the same sheets).
Generalkarte des österreichischen
Kaiserstaate... „Generalkarte des österreichischen
Kaiserstaates mit einem großen
Theile der angränzenden Länder“, published in 1856–1859, scale 1: 576
000 in 20 sheets. Further information by the excellent site: David Rumsey Historical
Map
Collection“
By Joseph Scheda, Engineer of the Geographic Corps, Militarisch
Geografischen Institute, Austria. Comprised of 20 sheets, each
dissected into 6 sections. Incredible detail throughout the map. A
triumph of Austrian/German engraving. The 20 sheets cover most of
middle and southern Europe. With an index map titled “Ubersicht zur
Zusammenstellung der Blaetter fur die General Karte des
oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates.” Scheda did a 25 sheet map of Europe.
Scheda lived from 1815-1888 (Phillips) and did a Hand Atlas in 1879
with A. Steinhauser (Phillips 6201) which we gather was largely a
Physical Atlas. Outline color. Map sheets fold each with a paste down
label on the end sheet showing its corresponding portion of the map and
roman numeral as shown in the index map. The sheets are then folded
into a maroon cloth covered folding board and outer quarter leather
maroon cloth slip case 26x21 with “General-Karte Der Oesterreichischen
Monarchie von J. Scheda” and a decorative design with an illustration
of a globe stamped in gilt on the spine.
Übersichtskarte
von Mitteleuropa, 1:750,000
Overview map of Central Europe, dated 1882 – 1886 (45 sheets). New
edition from
1899
onwards, of which only 12 colour sheets were published. The map was
copied modiefied and used in many countries of Central Europe as a
groundwork for new, local editions.
2013
update: we
have scanned a majority of sheets of this map type and we will make
them available in Mapster, probably by end of July 2013.
A few diagrams on triangulation and geodesic works in the
Austro-Hungarian empire. The first three come from the book: TAETIGKEIT
DES K.U.K.
MILITAERGEOGRAPHISCHEN INSTITUTES IN DEN LETZNEN
25 JAHHREN (Wien 1907).We will try to scan the book and make them
available in the pdf format, as it is a good summary of K.u.K. work
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
@JMisiewicz
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