Kiesersche forest map
The Kiesersche forest map is considered to be the first work for land surveying in Württemberg .
Emergence
Duke Friedrich Karl von Württemberg commissioned the Duke of Württemberg War Council and Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Kieser (1618–1688) as well as his employees Johann Niclas Wittich and Johann Jakob Dobler with the mapping of the Württemberg forests and the establishment of forest camp books . The work was completed between 1680 and 1687. The purpose of the topographical work was the reforestation of the forest areas in the country that had been affected by the Thirty Years' War .
scope
The unfinished map series on a scale of 1: 8256 covers an area between Heilbronn and Reutlingen or Herrenberg and Schwäbisch Gmünd and is particularly interesting today due to the perspective view of hundreds of individual Württemberg villages and buildings. Kieser's images are often the oldest surviving images of the objects.
As was often the case at the time, the map sections face south .
Whereabouts
Since Kieser gave up the work in 1687, the 280 individual cards were initially little used and were stored unnoticed for about a century in the attic of the Royal Public Library in Stuttgart. Here they fell victim to the air raid on September 12, 1944 , although they were secured in steel cabinets.
However, the description of the work by C. Regelmann has been handed down in the Württemberg Yearbooks for Statistics and Regional Studies 1890/91, Volume II, pp. 185–224. Color facsimiles of part of the work were also produced for the International Geographers' Congress in Warsaw in 1934; however, they only include the Strümpfelbach-Stetten-Aichelberg-Lobenrot map section. There are also black-and-white photographs of the work, which were made in 1939 by the Württemberg state photo office .
Web links
- Permanent exhibition: Andreas Kieser and his forest maps Internet presence of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, accessed on June 18, 2010