Maps of Lower Bavaria

The region of present-day Lower Bavaria was first shown in printed form on the map "Obern und Nidern Bairn" (Upper and Lower Bavaria) by Johannes Aventin in 1523. It thus belongs to the first areas to have been mapped individually. In the middle of the century, Lower Bavaria was first surveyed by Philipp Apian for his Great Map of Bavaria (Bayerische Landtaflen/Bavarian Maps, 1568). From the eighteenth century, a floor plan of the town of Passau and the Veste Oberhaus, preserved in the atlases by Stridbeck and Bodenehr, is worth mentioning. Only the maps from the Reise-Atlas by Adrian von Riedl, published between 1798 and 1805, cover the area almost completely. Lower Bavaria was again surveyed for the Topographischer Atlas von Bayern (Topographic Atlas of Bavaria) at the beginning of the nineteenth century. These and other maps can be found in this collection.

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