Plan chamber
Plankammer is the sovereign or state collection of plans, cracks and other maps . Friedrich Wilhelm I founded the planning chamber of the Prussian General Staff. The planning chamber was responsible for the administration of used maps, the organization and implementation of the land survey and updating of the map series. Plan chambers in the military administration, often also called war plan chambers, hold maps of theaters of war of important battles for the army general staffs. There is an important planning chamber in Austria . In the Austrian State Archives (war archive), among other things, the plan material for all wars in which the Austrian rulers (mainly the House of Habsburg ) were involved since the Thirty Years' War is kept .
The inventory of maps and illustrations (such as site plans for fortifications) was often subject to the strictest confidentiality. In addition, targeted copies of cards were issued that were incorrect or incomplete in order to make it difficult for political or military enemies to use them.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan Chamber . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 13 . Altenburg 1861, p. 182 ( zeno.org ).
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888