Germany Governmental District Boundaries, 1820, German Historical GIS

Description:

These polygons represent governmental districts (Regierungsbezirke) or comparable units existing in several of the sovereign states of the German Confederation (the Deutscher Bund) in 1820. All were located within the (future) boundaries of the German Empire that would be founded in 1871 ('core Germany'). In 1820, governmental districts formed the middle level administrative units in nearly all of the larger territorial German states: Prussia, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Baden, and Hesse-Darmstadt.

Creator:

HGIS Germany (Andreas Kunz, Leonhard Dietze), IEG-Maps / Berlin Data Pool (Andreas Kunz, Robert Moeschl), Institut fur Europaische Geschichte (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), and Fachhochschule Mainz (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

Publisher:

HGIS Germany

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Political Divisions, sovereign states, boundaries, Boundaries, Administrative and political divisions, and Population Statistics

Temporal Coverage:

1820

Date Issued:

2007

Spatial Coverage:

Germany, German Confederation, Central Europe, Germany, Poland, Kaliningrad Oblast, Belgium, and Lithuania

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile