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Wettingen on the Michaeliskarte

The Michaeliskarte is a topographical map that was created between 1837 and 1843 and depicts the area of ​​the canton of Aargau in hatching . The reason for its creation was the planned map of the whole of Switzerland on a scale of 1: 100,000, the so-called Dufour map .

The Prussian engineering geographer Ernst Heinrich Michaelis was entrusted with the implementation . He first condensed the triangulation completed in Aargau in 1830 and created a map on a 1: 25,000 scale on this basis.

In 1849, the Aargau government had Michaelis make a map with identical content on a scale of 1: 50,000, which was reproduced in two colors using copperplate printing .

The 43 field books that have been preserved for the Michaeliskarte and the engraver's copy of the map are kept in the Aargau State Archives.

literature

  • Alfred Oberli: The Michaelis map of the canton of Aargau 1: 50,000 (1837–1849) . In: Cartographica Helvetica 1991, issue 3, pp. 2–13 ( PDF; 19 MB )
  • Gerhard Ammann and Bruno Meier : Landscape in human hands. 150 years of Michaeliskarten - Aargau cultural landscape in transition . Sauerländer, Aarau, 1999.

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