Germany State Capitals, 1848, German Historical GIS

Description:

The points represent the capitals of 37 states - or territorial entities - of the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund) which in 1848 were located within the (future) boundaries of the German Empire that would be founded in 1871. The polygons of this 'core Germany 1848' are available in a separate data set on this server.

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:

Point data

Subject:

Political Divisions, sovereign states, location, Capitals (Cities), and German states

Temporal Coverage:

1848

Date Issued:

2007

Spatial Coverage:

Germany, German Confederation, Central Europe, and Germany

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile