Ravenstein's Geographical Publishing House
Ravenstein's Geographische Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei was a company that had its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main . It presented maps and guide her and moved them. The publishing house and printing house existed from 1830 to 2007, and has changed hands several times in recent years.
history
The company was founded by Friedrich August Ravenstein on July 1, 1830 in Frankfurt am Main , making it the second oldest cartographic institute in Germany. The first product was a city map of Frankfurt, which appeared from 1830. This was followed by a general post and travel card created for the Thurn and Taxische Postverwaltung (1835) and a relief of the Rhineland in thirty sections (1839), which was purchased by the King of Prussia. The alignment plan for Frankfurt a. M. in sixteen sheets (1860).
The publishing house was taken over by Friedrich August's son Ludwig Ravenstein in 1866 . In addition to work for the Bibliographical Institute in Hildburghausen , hiking maps of Taunus and Odenwald have been published. The most important new publication was the map of the Eastern Alps (with elevation layers ) on a scale of 1: 250,000 in nine sheets, which was published in cooperation with the German and Austrian Alpine Associations . Under Ludwig Ravenstein's leadership, the house developed into a scientific company recognized throughout Europe.
In 1884 Ludwig Ravenstein's son Hans (1866–1936) joined the company after training in his father's company, which he took over in 1915. Under his direction, Ravenstein's maps became the official material for the Automobile Club of Germany (AvD), the ADAC , the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer and other tourist associations. In 1923 Ravenstein was temporarily converted into a stock corporation and traded as Geographische Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei Ludwig Ravenstein A.-G., Frankfurt am Main . The stock corporation soon became Ravensteins Geographische Verlagsanstalt GmbH again .
After studying at the Technical University in Munich , Ernst Ravenstein (1891–1953) became the new owner of the company founded by his grandfather in 1922. He was the son of the Frankfurt architect Simon Ravenstein (1844–1933), the youngest son of August Ravenstein. Ernst headed the publishing house from 1934 until his death. Under his leadership, the range of bike, motorcycle and car maps was further expanded and in 1931 a relief department was opened with the aim of creating plastic maps. The company now operated under the name of Geographische Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, owner Ernst Ravenstein .
After Ernst Ravenstein's death, the company was continued by his two children, Helga and Helmut. Helmut Ravenstein left the company in 1962 and the aerial photography specialist Klaus Völger († 1983) joined the company temporarily. From 1969 the company was owned by Helga Ravenstein and Rüdiger Bosse. On January 1, 1982, Ravenstein merged with the Swiss publisher Kümmerly + Frey in Bern, which took over 51 percent of the publisher's shares. On July 1, 1983, Helga Ravenstein bought back her shares in the publishing house and took over management again with Bosse.
The Ravenstein Verlag GmbH moved to the town of Bad Soden am Taunus near Frankfurt with Bernd Hauptka, who was gaining influence . Hauptka signed a cooperation agreement with the Falk publishing house by creating new city maps, which were sold as "Falk Extra" city maps and Falk city atlases via the well-functioning Falk sales department under the well-known Falk Plan brand . In addition, the Ravenstein maps were also taken over by Falk sales and from the end of 1988 Falk's own extra city maps were printed in the Hauptka-Ravenstein printing plant in Bad Soden. After the end of the cooperation (around 1993), the possibility of selling via Falk ceased to exist, and the Hauptka city maps were now marketed as ADAC city maps and city atlases. The Atlasco publishing house from Dreieich was also taken over by Hauptka , the Schönefeld near Berlin and initially Gotha locations also produced maps. All of Germany was to be represented on a scale of 1: 20,000 in the context of city atlases. Hauptka / Ravenstein was later taken over by ADAC-Verlag under the new name CartoTravel . The ADAC sold CartoTravel to MairDumont in 2007 . CartoTravel was liquidated and the three locations closed. Most recently the publishing house had 150 employees and a turnover of 150 million euros (2006).
Foundation, endowment
The "Helga Ravenstein Foundation" established by Helga Ravenstein awards a Ravenstein sponsorship prize to young cartographers in two categories: "Apprentices" and "Students at universities".
literature
- Memorandum for the hundredth anniversary of the geographical publishing house and printing company Ludwig Ravenstein AG. Frankfurt am Main 1830–1930
- Hundred years of Ravenstein , in: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , 97. 1930, p. 615/616
- Hans Ferschke: 150 years of Ravenstein maps , in: Kartographische Nachrichten , 30. 1980, pp. 229–232, German Society for Cartography (DGfK)
- Helga Ravenstein: The chronicle of the publishing house Ravenstein: A story from d. Age d. Pioneers, d. Explorer, d. Inventor and founder of the publishing house, (1830–1980) , Frankfurt am Main 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Bormann: Allgemeine Kartenkunde , Astra-Verlag, 1954, p. 104
- ^ Fried Lübbecke: Five hundred years of books and printing in Frankfurt am Main , H. Cobet, 1948, p. 122
- ^ The German automobile industry of the present , Reimar Hobbing , 1928, p. 128
- ↑ Ravenstein's Great Wheel = u. Car map , scale 1: 300,000, No. 43 Berlin
- ^ Ingrid Kretschmer: The cartography and its peripheral areas: Enzyklopädie , F. Deuticke, 1986, vol. 3, p. 356. ISBN 3-700545622
- ^ Kartographische Nachrichten , Volumes 33–34, German Society for Cartography (DGfK), Velhagen & Klasing, 1983, p. 192
- ↑ Ravenstein-Förderpreis ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
