Germany Governmental District Boundaries, 1820, German Historical GIS
Description:
These polygons represent governmental districts (Regierungsbezirke) or comparable units existing in several of the sovereign states of the German Confederation (the Deutscher Bund) in 1820. All were located within the (future) boundaries of the German Empire that would be founded in 1871 ('core Germany'). In 1820, governmental districts formed the middle level administrative units in nearly all of the larger territorial German states: Prussia, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Baden, and Hesse-Darmstadt.
Creator:
HGIS Germany (Andreas Kunz, Leonhard Dietze), IEG-Maps / Berlin Data Pool (Andreas Kunz, Robert Moeschl), Institut fur Europaische Geschichte (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), and Fachhochschule Mainz (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)