Deutsche Karte 1:50 000 der Alpen- und Donau-Reichsgaue, [Index]

Deutsche Heereskarte der Alpen- und Donau-Reichsgaue

[Berlin?], OKH/Gen St d H, Chef des Kriegskarten- und Vermessungswesen, 1944.

Ausgabe Nr.1.

Index Maps

Scale 1:50,000. 2 cm der Karte = 1 km der Natur

(E 9°30ʹ00ʺ--E 17°15ʹ00ʺ/N 49°00ʹ00ʺ--N 45°45ʹ00ʺ).

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56 x 37 cm

Earth Sciences & Map Library

Relief shown variously by hachures, contours, shading, and spot heights.
At head of map: Deutsche Heereskarte. Nur für den Dienstgebrauch!
Shows drainage, roads and trails, railways, vegetation, and other physical and cultural features.
Includes source map note, political boundary diagram, index to adjoining sheets, grid note, extenisve legend with glossaries relating to Hungarian abbreviations and Hungarian pronunciation, and "Ballenbezeichnung" diagram summarizing information about scale, grids, edition, and series sheet numbering.
Place names in German. Each sheet individually titled and numbered: Sheet 5355 Ost. Marburg an der Drau -- sheet 5535 West. Krainburg [with Ljubljana, identified on the map as Laibach].
Source maps: Most sheets are based on map data derived from Spezialkarte 1:75 000 sheets issued 1924-1939 by Kartographisches Institut in Wien. Some sheets are based on map data derived from Österreichische Karte 1:50.000 sheets produced in the 1930s by Kartographisches Institut in Wien and Austria's Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen.The Spezialkarte numbering system has been retained. Two sheets (Ost and West) cover one Spezialkarte sheet. All sheets are updated with data from other sources, including cadastral maps and aerial photography.
"Blattschnitt: Österr. geogr. Landessystem der Spezialkarte 1:75 000"--In left margin of majority of sheets.
All sheets with military grid identified as Deutsches Heeresgitter in grid note and DHG in the Ballenbezeichnung diagram.
"Gitter: Deutsches Heeresgitter"--In left margin.
Some sheets overprinted with German Heeresmeldenetz grid identified as HMN (DHG) in Ballenbezeichnung diagram.
Complements 2 other German military map series: Ungarn 1:50 000 (Eh 50) -- Karte des Nordwestbalkans 1:50 000.

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