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Gdansk Town Records - Maps and Plans

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Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku
State Archives in Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland
www.gdansk.ap.gov.pl

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Gdansk Town Records - Maps and Plans
Akta miasta Gdańska - Mapy i plany
Reference code	:	PL/10/300/MP
Period	:	1520-1937
Extent	:	1263 items, 3.00 linear metres

Abstract

The collection contains mainly manuscript maps and plans ordered by the offices of the town of Gdansk from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The maps and plans were produced as part of projects to rebuild the Gdansk harbour entrance (thus showing soundings) or construct defensive town fortifications.

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Period	:	1520 - 1937
Countries involved	:	Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, The Netherlands
Languages	:	Dutch, Low German, Polish

The material consists of maps made for different offices and ordered by the Town Council in Gdansk. Most of them are hand-drawn coloured maps of the Vistula River and the entrance to the harbour of Gdansk with soundings of the harbour canal. They were hand-drawn by engineers employed by the Town Council, mainly from the Netherlands. There are also some charts of the Polish coast and the Gulf of Gdansk dating from the end of the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, as well as some drawings by Walther Clemmens, the sixteenth-century Gdansk harbour engineer. His and the other engineers' manuscript plans of the harbour canal are the best sources for tracing the course of the Vistula River and harbour developments from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Furthermore, the materials include projects of the reconstruction of the Gdansk fortifications and buildings by Dutch architects like Anton van Oberbergen (1543-1611) and Jacob van den Block (1577-1653). All item nos. mentioned below begin with 300/MP/.

1, 5, 6, 12, 31, 44, 45, 55, 74, 75, 88, 103, 104, 400, 589, 623, 627-629, 634, 640, 650, 662-664, 786, 898, 1183, 1239: Plans of the town of Gdansk, its harbour and fortifications, by C. van der Bosch, Morgener, J. Hadrian , U. Paterson, J. Patzer, J. Strakowski, G. Strakowski and Charpentier, 1619, 1620, 1630, 1637, 1650, 1656, 1660, 1665, 1674, 1680, 1700, 1734-1736, 1744-1750, 1763, 1780, 1792-1800.
24, 46, 56, 105, 108, 109, 112: Plans of the shipyards area, by P. Willer and Niedermeyer, 1617, 1690, 1697, 1763, 1770.
38, 590: Plans of the St. Jacob Hospital and the elderly home for sailors in Gdansk, by Charpentier, 1725, 1792.
39, 609, 660, 661, 665-668, 722-725, 727-731, 733-737, 740-743, 746, 784, 816, 819, 824, 911, 1169, 1208, 1210: Plans of the entrance to the interior harbour in Gdansk at the Motlawa River, and of fortifications around the harbour canal in Gdansk, by Hedding, Haselau, E. Strackwitz, G. Strackwitz and Charpentier, 1626, 1639, 1648, 1650-1652, 1660, 1665-1667, 1672, 1690, 1725-1739, 1764, 1772.
73, 76, 94, 98, 157, 1205: Plans of market and fair places in Gdansk, 1677, 1680, 1700, 1750.
171, 185, 259, 263, 291, 503, 521, 601, 613, 614, 618, 620, 658, 670, 671, 676-720, 774-781, 787, 844, 903, 905, 907, 1128-1130, 1157-1161, 1163: Plans of the entrance to the Gdansk harbour and fortifications of the Wisloujscie fortress, by G. Strakowski, I. Clove, C. Neubayer and Ranisch, 1606, 1630-1639, 1649-1674, 1680-1684, 1690, 1691, 1700- 1707, 1725, 1730-1736, 1750-1760, 1772, 1785-1790, 1800.
179, 182, 190, 202-206, 247-255, 258, 261, 262, 592: Plans of the entrance to the Gdansk harbour and the Vistula River, with measurements of depth, by G. Strackwitz, J. Gellentin, Skepsgard and C. Runger, 1634, 1672, 1678, 1680, 1698, 1701, 1708, 1716, 1728-1732, 1743, 1746, 1751, 1761-1763, 1771, 1783.
304, 305, 356, 357, 496, 497, 528, 529, 554, 570, 580, 586: Map of the seashore near Gdansk east of the harbour, 1594, 1687, 1700, 1705, 1718, 1730, 1744, 1757, 1779.
509, 532: Sailor's maps of Gdansk Bay, by W. Clemens, 1596, 1670.
526, 843, 904, 1221: Maps of Puck town and Gdansk Bay, by P. Langau, 1656, 1660, 1669.
530, 555, 557, 1096: Map of Vistula Bay near Elblagand Tolkmicko, with measurements of depth, 1611, 1684, 1691, 1732.
986: Plan of the building of the mint in Gdansk, 1797.
1181: Plans of navigation marks, and technical projects, 1660.
1185: Map of Hel penisula and the seashore, 1694.
1228, 1249: Maps of Prussia by C. Henneberger, 1627, and of Germany by Nicolaus J. Piscator, 1630.
1234, 1235: Plans of the churches of St. Mary's and St. John's in Gdansk, with description of tombstones and chapels (e.g. sailors chapels), 1730-1750.
1243: Map of Königsberg, 1650.
1247-1249: Atlases with plans of the entrance to the Gdansk harbour and fortifications of the Wisloujscie fortress, by J. Gellentin and H. Pfeffer, with measurements of depth in the harbour canal and Gdansk Bay, and the development of the coastal line and fortifications defending the harbour entrance, 1595-1840.

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The various holdings of maps and plans were originally part of the records of different city offices. All these maps and plans were merged into one large collection in the City Hall Archives at the end of nineteenth century.

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