Germany Provincial Boundaries, 1830, German Historical GIS

Description:

These polygons represent 8 provinces existing in the sovereign states of the German Confederation (the Deutscher Bund) in 1826, which were located within the (future) boundaries of the German Empire that would be founded in 1871 ('core Germany'). Since in 1830 only Prussia used provinces as administrative units, the provincial dataset as a layer likewise represents the territorial extension of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1820. Compared to 1826, the two most eastern located provinces of Westpreussen and Ostpreussen and have merged to now represent the province of Preussen.

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:

1830

Date Issued:

2007

Spatial Coverage:

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

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile