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Thematic maps are usually referred to as old maps , which essentially appeared in the period from the middle of the 16th to the beginning of the 19th century. They are important sources for historical geography , especially for settlement geography .

Old maps mostly show the court and administrative structure of an area in a smaller area. They are all hand-drawn plans, cracks, early official photographs such as old cadastral maps or military maps for orientation in the area. They should present complex conditions in a simple and clear manner, are often large- scale and are often displayed in a distorted manner. Old maps are used in historical-genetic settlement geography as a source for the reconstruction and illustration of past landscape conditions.

At the same time, the term old map is also used generally for old maps , English early maps , older maps of any content that appeared before the middle of the 19th century.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b Heinrich Beck u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 28, Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11018-207-6 , pp. 331f.
  2. ^ Walter Hettche, Hubert Merkel: Waldbilder: Contributions to the interdisciplinary colloquium "There is forest and forest and forest" (Adalbert Stifter), Göttingen, March 19 and 20, 1999, Verlag Iudicium, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89129-644- 4 , p. 138.
  3. ^ Hanns Peter Neuheuser, Gerhard Aymans: Development and evaluation of historical maps. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-79271-010-2 , p. 163.
  4. ^ Winfried Schenk: Historical geography. Environmental history bridging subject between history and geography. In: Wolfram Siemann (ed.): Environmental history. Topics and perspectives. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-40649-438-2 , pp. 129–146, here: p. 135.

literature

  • Thomas Horst: The old map as a source for the historian. The history of cartography as an auxiliary historical science. In: Archives for Diplomatics. Script history, seal and heraldry. ISSN  0066-6297 , 54 (2008), pp. 309-377.

Web links

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