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Elblag Town Map Collection

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

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Elblag Town Map Collection
Kolekcja elbląskich planów i map
Reference code	:	PL/10/1151
Period	:	1554-1941
Extent	:	821 items

Abstract

This collection consists of maps and plans originating from various offices in the town of Elblag (Elbing, east of Gdansk). The materials include general town maps as well as plans of districts, harbor and shipyards, technical plans of buildings and panoramas of Elblag from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.

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Period	:	1531 - 1783
Countries involved	:	Germany, Poland, Sweden, The Netherlands
Languages	:	Latin, Low German

Relevant materials include town plans, hydrographic and sailors' maps, and plans of the harbour and its entrance, of building in the harbour area and of shipyards. Part of the materials is printed; most items are coloured. The numbers of all items start with 1151.

1-1a, 7, 17-22, 24-34, 37-46, 773-774: Plans of Elblag and its harbour and fortifications, by Bolz, I. Hoppe, Kretschmer, Amelung, Friderici and Manteuffel, 1633, 1635, 1641, 1642, 1645, 1649, 1660, 1696, 1703, 1706, 1709, 1735, 1738, 1753, 1764, 1782, 1785-1806.
52, 110, 120, 261-268, 291: Plans of the harbour, buildings and places in the harbour, and the office of harbour pilots.
54-58: Panoramas of Elblag, by Andersch, Werner, Henneberger, Hampe and Amelung, 1554, 1741, 1750, 1765, 1780; mostly coloured and printed except for the panorama from 1554 which is a manuscript.
277-282: Plans of the reconstruction of the town weight building, by Friderici, 1785-1810.
325-327: Plans of the reconstruction of the stock exchange building, 1789-1790.
369, 373, 375, 396: Maps of the delta of the Vistula and Nogat Rivers and the seashore, 1745, 1792-1794.
399: Sailors' maps, depicting the entrance to the Elblag harbour by Pahlau, 1792.
766: Maps and geographical atlases of West and East Prussia and Lithuania, 1796-1802.
805: Panorama of Greifswald, 1659.
806: Design of the fortress of Anclamsche Fehrschantz near Peenemünde and Uznam Island (north of Szczecin), seventeenth century.

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Inventory (finding aid code: 10/1151).

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