Charter of Swabia

Chart of Swabia, sheet 13 (Stuttgart)

The Charte von Schwaben was a privately conducted, topographical survey of southwest Germany, especially of Swabia .

The map series was published by Georg Cotta in Tübingen from 1798 and was completed in 1828. It was 1: 86,400 in scale and consisted of 62 sheets.

The authors were Professor Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765–1831) and Ignaz Ambros von Amman (1753–1840), followed later by Ernst Heinrich Michaelis (1794–1873).

See also

• List of map series

literature

• Fischer, Hanspeter: The «Charte von Schwaben» 1: 86.400. In: Cartographica Helvetica , Heft 7 (1993), pp. 3–10 ( full text )

Web links

Commons : Charte von Schwaben (Bohnenberger)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Digitized version of the University Library of Tübingen
• Information on the maps at the State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development Baden-Württemberg with a link to the map overview, page 22