Germany Governmental District Boundaries, 1890, German Historical GIS

Description:

These polygons represent 67 governmental districts (Regierungsbezirke) existing in several of the sovereign states of the German Empire (Deutsches Reich) in 1890. Governmental districts formed the middle level administrative units in nearly all of the larger federated German states which continued to form the Empire: Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Baden, and Hesse-Darmstadt. Of all the larger federated states, only Mecklenburg continued not having middle-level administrative units.

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:

1890

Date Issued:

2007

Spatial Coverage:

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

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile