An Atlas of the German Empire/Atlas des Deutschen Reichs

摘要

An Atlas of the German Empire is a free online version of the 1883 edition of the Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein. The maps used on this website came from the collection of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and were digitized by the University's Digital Content Group (now named the Digital Collections Center). According to the website, this map was chosen for digitization because of its usefulness for genealogists. Genealogists can use this map to find towns, villages, and churches in the German Empire from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The maps in this atlas also cover the bordering regions of the current nations of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Switzerland. This website includes a table providing statistical information on religious groups in the German Empire. The information contained in this table is in German, an English translation is not provided. An explanatory key of the symbols used in the maps is located in the South-east quarter of map 9. Place names are located by downloading the index and utilizing the appropriate grid coordinates.