Maps concerning History and Administration

This group includes maps and atlases of territorial borders, administrative districts, property and border disputes, but also of historical events and of history in general. The assignment is not always clear.

Until the nineteenth century, no reliable maps of administrative borders were available. Only the maps commissioned by the respective sovereigns indicate that the regions shown belong to them. In 1808, Johann Michael Schramm - one of the best copper engravers and lithographers of that time - produced a map of the 15 new districts of the Kingdom of Bavaria (Schramm, Das Koenigreich Baiern) which had been named after rivers. It is one of the oldest lithographically produced maps from the workshop of Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), the inventor of lithography.

One of the first historical maps of Bavaria was made after 1745 by Matthäus Seutter in Augsburg. It records numerous historical events in the depiction itself; 208 numbers on the map refer to explanations in the corresponding explanatory sheets.

• All maps concerning history and administration available in bavarikon

Multi-part maps concerning history and administration available in bavarikon

• Administrativ-Karte des Regierungsbezirkes Oberbayern
• Schramm, Johann Michael: Das Koenigreich Baiern
• Spruner, Karl von: Atlas zur Geschichte von Bayern
• Wolf, Karl: Die Historische Schulkarte von Bayern
• Ohlenschlager, Friedrich: Praehistorische Karte von Bayern (Prehistorical Map of Bavaria)
• Pfeiffer, Johann Baptist: Atlas vom Königreich Bayern

The other part collections of "Maps and Plans from the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" available in bavarikon

• Sets of Topographic Maps
• Topographic Maps
• Atlases
• Maps on Traffic and Travelling
• Miltary Maps
• Maps concerning Church and Religion
• Hydrological Maps
• Maps of the Upper Palatinate
• Maps of Upper Franconia
• Maps of Central Franconia
• Maps of Lower Franconia
• Maps of Swabia
• Maps of Lower Bavaria
• Maps of Upper Bavaria
• Maps of the Palatinate
• Maps of Bavarian Cities
• Maps on Geology

>> This collection is part of the holdings of "Maps and Plan from the Holdings the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" (Bavarian State Library).