GeoJSON file representing the historical boundaries of the 64 districts (Oberämter) of the Kingdom of Württemberg circa 1848. The data were derived from a contemporaneous map by Franz von Mittnacht through manual retracing. It is a geospatial dataset of 749.7 KB.
Use Cases
- Analyze the spatial extent and adjacency of the 64 historical Oberämter districts for historical geography research.
- Use the GeoJSON boundaries as a base layer for mapping historical demographic or economic data onto the 1848 administrative units.
- Compare the 1848 district boundaries from this dataset with modern administrative regions to study territorial evolution.
Strengths
- Contains 64 distinct historical administrative districts (Oberämter).
- Data is derived from a specific, contemporaneous historical source (map by Franz von Mittnacht).
- Published under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license for reuse.
Limitations
- Small dataset at 749.7 KB, offering limited scope beyond the specific historical region and time.
- Boundaries are manually retraced from a historical map, which may introduce minor digitization inaccuracies.
- No attribute data (e.g., population, area) is included with the boundary geometries.
Provenance
- Source
- Derived from a historical map by Franz von Mittnacht.
- Collection Method
- Manual retracing of the source map.
- Time Range
- circa 1848
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Kingdom of Württemberg (historical region in present-day Germany).