Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme Germany 1928 <a href=http://www.davidrumsey.com/rumsey/download.pl?image=/162/5820731.jp2 target=_blank>Full Image Download in JP2 Format</a> (Index Map Sheets 1 - 674). Ubersichts - Blatt zu der Karte des Deutchen Reiches. 5820731.jp2 batch009 5820.731 <a href=http://www.lizardtech.com/downloads/category/#viewers target=_blank >GeoViewer for JP2 and SID files</a> Index map for sheets 1 to 674. 1893 30 5820.000 674 IIn an agreement dated March 4, 1878, the states of Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Wurttemberg (the areas of modern day Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, and Kaliningrad, and part of Lithuania) agreed to map their areas on a 1:100,000 scale in a common topographic grid survey consisting of 674 sheets. Each sheet covers about 30 minutes in longitude and 15 minutes in latitude. One centimeter on a map is equivalent to 1 kilometer on the ground. Average sheet size is about 35 cm x 28 cm. Each sheet covers about 1000 square kilometers and was engraved on copper. A polyhedral projection was used. Prime meridian was Ferro, later switched to Greenwich. The series is known as the KDR-100 (German General Staff map) and was surveyed beginning in 1878, although many sheets were simply drawn from pre-existing military maps, often of larger (more detailed) scale. The mapping continued until 1945, so most sheets were revised at least once. This collection strongly trends toward the earliest editions. They were published for the General Staffs of Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony and Wurttemberg by “R. Eisenschmidt, Verlags-Buchhandlung” (publishing bookstore). (Berlin). Key organizations indicated on the maps include (1) Topographic Bureau of Royal Saxony, abbreviated in German as “topogr. bureau des konigl. sachs.” And (2) Royal Prussian General Staff, abbreviated in German as “Kgl. Preuss. Generalstab.” Most sheets stamped with "The Library of Massachusetts, State House, Boston," and the apparent date of acquisition. Almost all of the sheets are trimmed to the neatline to allow for closer alignment of multiple sheets when viewing, apparently a common practice by publishers of the sheets. Therefore the printed publishing date has been removed and we are estimating the date based on the acquisition stamp date. Karte des Deutschen Reiches. National Atlas 39 Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme 5820.000_001 100,000 1 Index Map: Sheets 1 - 674 Index Map