Prussia/Saxon Maps?

Concerning german maps of 1770-1815, you have to check for Landesaufnahmen / Generalkarten / topograpische Karten / Kriegskarten, most prominently in the scale of 1:86.400 like the famous cassini maps, often arranged according to the presumed theatre of war.

Schleswig: Du Plat'sche Karte

Holstein: Vahrendorfsche Karte

Mecklenburg, Brandenburg: schmettausche Karte

Ostpreußen: Schröttersche Karte

Sayony: Meilenkarte, Petri-Karte

Hessen-Darmstadt: Haassche Karte

Bayern, Baden, Würtemberg, Hessen: Karte von Südwestdeutschland

Hanover: Kurhannoversche Landesaufnahme

Bayern: Carte de Bavière, topographischer Atlas, Uraufnahme

Nordwestdeutschland: Lecocqsche Karte

württemberg: Bohnenberger

Linkes Rheinland (4 neuen Departements): Tranchot-karte, Müffling-Karte

Rheinland, Belgien: Carte chorographique de Ferraris

For more extensive, but also incomplete survey see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Kartenwerken

Online shops or download offers are:

https://www.landkartenshop.de/index.php

https://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/eucor/karten/karten.html

Well, it is not easy, as even today the various online offers are scattered through the federation. Basically printed maps and digitized maps are available at the "Landesvermessungsämter" of the respective federal states (Bundesländer). Maps are also preserved at various libraries and archives, most prominent are the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Kriegsarchiv Wien, Krigsarkivet Stockholm and Bayerische Staatsbliothek München which maintain separate divisions for maps. The degree of digitization is not very much advanced, but you can order digitized copies.

Every site I checked referes to the above site, so I don't think these maps are online. It is very difficult to trace public resources in Germany. There are some, but hard to find. Other countries are far more creative commons minded. I think it's the old spirit of Köpernick the can't free themselves from. On Youtube I love the short item's of Reale Irrsinn. As a dutchman it hardly to grasp how completely different things are organised in Germany. But funny. On the other hand I find it very difficult to find good pics to use from german sites. And since my site is in german, it's quite frustrating.

For my website I did earlier today the little town Trebbin (Battle of Gross-Beeren) and on the Wikipedia there was a little snippet of a colored map. I found this site: https://geobasis-bb.de/lgb/de/geodaten/historische-karten/schmettausches-kartenwerk-%281767-1787%29/

https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layers=osm%2C163%2C165&bbox=1088128.2113491793%2C6178534.332441145%2C1552559.5952099103%2C6300833.577697427

Slightly earlier, but I used this map to see how the terrain has changed from 18th century to now for Teugen, Hausen, and Thann.

In addition: are there some that show local details such as the extent of villages and forests as the Habsburg maps and the old Bavarian maps do?

And Streit's "Topographisch-militairische Charte von Teutschland in 204 Sectionen", published 1809: https://bvbat01.bib-bvb.de/TouchPoint/perma.do?methodToCall=quickSearch&q=259%3D%22BV000451008%22+IN+[8]

For Saxony, there is for example the Petri map, which was used by all armies in the area in 1813. See https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3L2JNTZCTWYQYZV2BCXQ3HGVNGF27PTA and http://www.ingenieurgeograph.de/Unterrichten/Kriegsschule_1813/Zeilitzheim_2013_12_Kloffler_Petrikarte.pdf

Best wishes, Thomas

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