Antique map - Bamberg 1925
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Description
Plan of Bamberg in 1925: the city of Emperor Henry II, the provisional capital of Bavaria in 1919, published by the Bamberger Tagblatt.
This plan shows Bamberg in 1925. At the time, the city was in the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), in Upper Franconia (Oberfranken), within the Weimar Republic. Today it is in Bavaria (Bayern), and its French name is the same as its German name. It comes from Babenburg (Babenberg), the castle of the Babenbergs.
Bamberg owes its glory to Emperor Henry II, who founded a bishopric there in 1007; the cathedral was consecrated in 1012. It houses the tomb of the emperor and that of Pope Clement II, the city's former bishop, who died in 1047, the only papal tomb preserved north of the Alps. Its old town, largely spared by war, has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993.
Places and districts shown:
- The Neue Residenz - in April 1919, the proclamation of a council republic in Munich prompted the Bavarian government under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann to relocate to Bamberg, where the first cabinet meeting was held in the Residenz on April 12. It was in the city that Bavaria's first democratic constitution, known as the "Bamberg Constitution," was signed on August 14, 1919. The map dates from six years later.
- The Alte Rathaus and the Regnitz - the old town hall, built in the 14th century on an artificial island in the middle of the Regnitz. Legend has it that the townspeople, refused land by the bishop, built their own island.
- The Prinz-Ludwig Port and the Canal - at the top left, the port built in 1912 north of the city. The Ludwig Canal (Ludwig-Donau-Main-Kanal) begins in Bamberg, opened in 1846 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and runs to Kelheim on the Danube, with one hundred locks. The port quickly saw little traffic due to the low waters of the Main. In 1925, the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal project, launched in 1921, would not be completed until 1992.
- The ERBA Spinning Mill in Gaustadt - the "Vereinte Baumwoll-Industrie Erlangen-Bamberg A.G." is marked northwest on the map. Its establishment led to the construction of a lock on the Ludwig Canal in Gaustadt in the late 1850s.
- The Sternwarte - the Remeis Observatory was funded by a bequest from the lawyer and amateur astronomer Karl Remeis (1837-1882), who left 400,000 marks to his city. Built on the model of the one in Strasbourg, then the most modern in Germany, it opened on October 24, 1889.
- The Railway Station and Its Tracks - a vast railway junction occupies the northeast of the city. The map shows the directions to Würzburg, Nuremberg, and Bayreuth.
- The Parks and Forests - the Hain gardens (Luitpold-Hain, Luisen-Hain, Theresien-Hain) border the Regnitz to the south. To the east lie the Hauptsmoor forests, and Altenburg Castle is drawn in the southwest corner.
Cartographic key: this "Stadtplan von Bamberg" was published by the Bamberger Tagblatt-Verlag, the same newspaper that had announced the government's arrival in Bamberg in April 1919. The city limits are drawn in red, as are the public buildings, and a grid of red letters and numbers allows each location to be identified. It shows an airfield with its hangar, a Bayernwerk electrical substation, a cavalry barracks (that of the 17th Reiter Regiment), and a maneuver field. The legend explains that the widths of the streets have been deliberately distorted to remain legible.
In short: for anyone with ties to Bamberg or Franconia, or who loves the history of Emperor Henry II or the city that was the provisional capital of Bavaria, this map shows an imperial city entering the era of aviation and electricity.
What area does this map of Bamberg cover? It covers Bamberg and its surroundings: the old town on the Regnitz, the railway station and its tracks, the port and the canal, the industrial districts, the parks and forests, up to the municipal boundary.
In what year was this map published? This map dates from 1925. It was published by the Bamberger Tagblatt-Verlag.
Reproduction of the "Stadtplan von Bamberg," published by the Bamberger Tagblatt-Verlag, 1925.
Printed on 200 g/m² textured art paper. Square formats of 60x60 and 70x70 cm: easy to frame.
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