Germany Provincial Boundaries, 1850, German Historical GIS

Description:

These polygons represent 11 provinces existing in the sovereign states of the German Confederation (the Deutscher Bund) in 1850, which were located within the (future) boundaries of the German Empire that would be founded in 1871 ('core Germany'). There are no changes compared to 1848, when three new provinces had been introduced as administrative units within the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, so the layer still represents the two states of Prussia 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:

1850

Date Issued:

2007

Spatial Coverage:

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

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile