From 1875, the Prussian State Recording began producing these 1:25,000 scale topographic map sheets, with the initial series essentially completed by 1912. The sheets, featuring contour lines and a normal-zero reference, formed the largest-scale topographic map series for the area of the Reich Office for Land Recording by 1931. They were produced by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and are available as plano sheets, mostly in single-color prints.
Use Cases
- Analyzing historical landforms and elevation based on contour line representation.
- Studying the evolution of civilian mapmaking and topographic standards in Central Europe.
- Georeferencing historical features for comparison with modern maps based on the precise scale.
Strengths
- Covers a significant historical period from 1875 to 1931.
- Provides a large-scale (1:25,000) topographic basis for the era.
Limitations
- Last updated 1941-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
- Collection Method
- Produced by the Prussian State Recording and later the Reich Office for Land Recording.
- Time Range
- 1875 to 1931
- Freshness
- 1941-01-01 00:00:00
- Geography
- German Empire (area of responsibility of the Reich Office for Land Recording)