Historical atlas of Baden-Württemberg
The Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg (HABW) is a scientific-based historical atlas , published between 1972 and 1988, comprising 120 map sheets and epithets, and essentially covers the area of Baden-Württemberg , including some neighboring areas.
General
The HABW was published in eleven partial deliveries between 1972 and 1988. The publisher is the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg (KgL). The atlas is distributed by the Land Surveying Office of Baden-Württemberg . The overall scientific management lay with Karl Heinz Schröder , Meinrad Schaab , Hektor Ammann, Willi Beck, Elmar Blessing, Hermann Grees , Walter Grube, Friedrich Huttenlocher , Hans Jänichen, Helmut Kluge, Hans-Martin Maurer and Max Miller. The editing was done by Joseph Kerkhoff, Gerd Friedrich Nüske and Michael Klein.
In cooperation with the State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development Baden-Württemberg (formerly: State Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg), the State Archives Baden-Württemberg and the State History Department of the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart , the HABW - almost all maps and epithets with explanations of symbols and community key directory - digitized and put online in May 2015 on the regional information portal LEO-BW . Many maps have been georeferenced and integrated into the GIS module with extended functionality, so that additional topics can be displayed for places and sights.
construction
The atlas consists of map sheets, epithets and a register volume. The 120 map sheets are colored and mostly have the format 46 cm × 52 cm (portrait) and the scale 1: 600,000. Each card has a detailed epithet, some of which contains additional cards and graphics. The epithets comprise a total of 1700 pages in A4 format and together form a comprehensive workbook on the history of Baden-Württemberg. The register shows about 22,000 place and landscape names.
Subject groups
The cards and epithets are arranged in twelve subject groups. These are:
I. Old maps
II. Basic maps, general maps of the national nature
III. Prehistory and Early History
IV. Development of the Cultural Landscape,
History of Settlements V. Political History: Early and High Middle Ages
VI. Political history: High Middle Ages to French Revolution
VII. Political history: 19th and 20th centuries
VIII. Church history
IX. Legal and cultural history
X. Transport history
XI. Economic history
XII. Population and social history
literature
- Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart 1972–1988.
- Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Work on the historical atlas of Southwest Germany . Issues 1–7, Stuttgart 1954–1983.
- Meinrad Schaab: The Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg . In the S. (Ed.): State funding and scientific independence of the national history. Contributions to the history of the historical commissions in the German southwest . Stuttgart 1995, pp. 128-172.
- Roland Häberlein, Heinz Morhard: The historical atlas of Baden-Württemberg . In: Cartographic News . 40 (1990) No. 6, pp. 216-221.
Web links
- The HABW online at leo-bw
- The HABW on the website of the Land Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg (link sequence: Products → Maps → Historical maps → Historical maps)
- The HABW on the website of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg (KgL) (with individual listing of the map sheets)
- Günter Christ, review of the HABW, in: Journal for Bavarian State History 60 (1997), pp. 1397–1401