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Germany Governmental District Boundaries, 1848, German Historical GIS Harvard University Public content

Description:
These polygons represent 74 governmental districts (Regierungsbezirke) existing in several of the sovereign states of the German Confederation (the Deutscher Bund) in 1848. All were located within the (future) boundaries of the German Empire that would be founded in 1871('core Germany'). In 1848, governmental districts formed the middle level administrative units in nearly all of the larger territorial German states: Prussia, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Baden, Hesse-Kassel, and Hesse-Darmstadt, where in comparison to 1834, ten new units had been created in 1848, while the former ones had been changed into provinces.
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)
Publisher:
HGIS Germany
Provider:
Harvard
Subject:
Political Divisions, sovereign states, boundaries, Boundaries, Administrative and political divisions, and Population Statistics
Temporal Coverage:
1848
Date Issued:
2007
Spatial Coverage:
Germany, German Confederation, Central Europe, Germany, Poland, Kaliningrad Oblast, Belgium, Czech Republic, and Lithuania
Access Rights:
Public
Format:
Shapefile