Maps of the Upper Palatinate

The oldest map of the Upper Palatinate was produced by Erhard Reich as early as in 1540, and the only preserved copy is now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (German National Museum) in Nuremberg. An engraving from 1584 is preserved in Abraham Ortelius' atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). These and the following maps can be found in this collection.

In the seventeenth century Georg Philipp Finckh (Imperii Circuli et Electoratus Bavariae, 1684) re-mapped the Upper Palatinate on the basis of Philipp Apian's "Landtaflen" (Bavarian Maps). The Holnstein estate near Sulzbach-Rosenberg is presented in a bird's eye view (Mapp. XI, 426 s). An early city map of Amberg from 1720 is recorded in Bodenehr's atlas Force d'Europe, a map of the diocese of Regensburg in 1702 is included in Scherer's Atlas Marianus. The entire Duchy, the Principality of Sulzbach and the Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg can be found on three maps in Reilly's atlas Schauplatz der Fünf Theile der Welt at the end of the eighteenth century. It means that the Upper Palatinate was already well mapped before Bavaria was re-surveyed in the nineteenth century. During the second half of the nineteenth century G.L. Weng mapped the region once more.

• All "Maps of the Upper Palatinate" available in bavarikon

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
• Maps concerning History and Administration
• Hydrological Maps
• 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).