Atlas Cameræ Magdeburgensis

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The atlas Cameræ Magdeburgensis , also called Magdeburg Chamber Atlas , is a cartographic representation of parts of the Duchy of Magdeburg from 1722.

The atlas is probably the oldest cartographic representation of the duchy resulting from a national survey and contains 73 floor plans of the offices of the duchy . The author of the atlas is the land surveyor Friedrich August Fiedler . The reason for the work was the introduction of a new long lease system for the offices and domains of the duchy. The respective office holdings are therefore shown in detail on the individual cards in the various districts. Exact land maps of the offices concerned were thus created. The entire area of ​​the duchy is not shown. The specific measurements on which the maps are based were carried out between 1690 and 1729. Fiedler designed and put the maps together in 1722. He himself made five of the maps as well as the table of contents, the scale index, the scale bars and the labels on the back of the maps. Many of the remaining maps were created by the surveyor Johann Lüders . The names of another three cartographers have not come down to us. In later years the atlas was supplemented by other people.

Five copies of the atlas were probably made. A bound copy and several individual sheets came to the Magdeburg State Archives in 1904 . The documents were first indexed and scientifically evaluated in 1905 by the archivist Felix Rosenfeld .

At the end of 2005, the managing director of the State Home Federation of Saxony-Anhalt, Jörn Weinert , suggested that the State Archives in Magdeburg should edit the atlas. In the spring of 2009, a cooperation agreement was concluded, as a result of which the Grafotex Leipzig company was commissioned to digitize the original. After further delays, the project was completed in summer 2012. Most of the funding came from the state of Saxony-Anhalt . The central German publishing house was won over for the publication , which also took on further parts of the economic risk and published the maps as high-quality art prints in 2012. The inscriptions on the back of the card are not included in the publication.

Depicted offices and works

The atlas contains the following map sheets:

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