517 Karlshagen I

The map is an appendix to the index of toponyms, which was developed as part of the project initiated by Pomeranian linguist, Dr Robert Holsten (1862-1954), with the aim to collect and compile contemporary folk and archive names of natural and anthropogenic physiographic objects, as well as inhabited and uninhabited places collected with local queries. The Meßtischblatt topographic maps at a scale of 1:25 000 are characterised by a very high level of detail and accuracy in mapping the topography of the terrain.

The 517 Karlshagen I map was drawn 1885, and revised and printed in 1925. It covers the areas surrounding Karlshagen, Kreis Usedom-Wollin, Reg. Bez. Stettin, Prov. Pommern, today Kreis Vorpommern-Greifswald, Bundesland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niemcy. It is the only surviving copy of the pre-war topographic map marked with the sheet number 517, containing data on the location of objects and their names in the Flurnamen Sammlung archive. A layer of settlement division was manually applied on the printed map, without numbering the physiographic objects associated with the divided settlements.

Andrzej Chludziński