Map collection
Stock
Panorama von Dresden, Radierung von C. A. Richter, 1824
The stock is composed as follows:
- 19,650 sheets published up to and including in 1800,
- 41,600 sheets published between 1801 and 1945, and
- 43,800 sheets published after 1945.
Use
Other services include:
- to provide competent advice for the use of maps,
- to provide advice on issues of reproduction or printing,
- to produce copies of reproductions through the department of reproduction,
- to make quality shots of or to digitise maps by the photographic library department by means of an Ektachrom unit, and
- to sell digitised maps on CD-ROM disks through the photographic library department.
Charges
The use of maps and views in the Map Collection is basically free of charge. Similarly, for written and oral information and the provision of maps and views on the making of reproductions of no fees. Reprographic services are chargeable. The cost is from the scale of fees for details.
Catalogues
- Alphabetic catalogue (by map titles or authors),
- Classified catalogue (by geographic arrangement), and
- Catalogue of cartographers, engravers or publishers for old stock items.
Cartography on the Internet
In the region
- Staatsbetrieb Geobasisinformation und Vermessung Sachsen (GeoSN) (Saxony state surveyor’s office),
- Institut für Kartographie Dresden (Dresden cartography institute),
- Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e.V. (IÖR), and
- Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Fakultät Geoinformation (University of technology and economics, surveying and cartography department).
Map collections
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin / Berlin State Library
Map department
Old map database - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library: map department
Historic maps
Place database - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen / Bremen State and University Library: Historic maps
- SUB Göttingen: map collection
More interesting links
- Historic street map of Dresden at HicLeones.com
- Street map of Dresden and Chemnitz
- Historical Atlas of Saxony
- Leipzig street map
- Verlag Dr. Barthel publishing house
- Städte-Verlag Fellbach publishing house
- Därr Expeditionsservice München / Munich
- Grünes Herz - Verlag für Tourismus publishing house
- Geo Guide
- Berlin and Brandenburg in maps FH Berlin
- Inventories of maps, GIS, satellite photographs and spatial data ETH Zürich / Zurich
- Digitale Produkte Swiss Topo
History
The map collection of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library in Dresden, in its beginnings to Elector August (1526 - 1586, reg. 1553 to 1586), who since 1556 in addition to books and woodblock prints, etchings and drawings for his personal use collected. This collection includes maps of the oldest institutions of its kind in Germany.
Considering the trend over the period of almost 450 years, so despite stagnation, crises and wars of the collective contract again been revived. In the past 10 years, the inventory by nearly 40,000 individual leaves increased. It included the end of 2008, about 170,192 maps and views.
Ätna (Sizilien), 1:500 000, Kartengemälde von Georg Zimmermann, 1985
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