bavarikon4UDescription
The Bavarian field maps were produced as lithographs. The printing plates made of Solnhofen limestone were continuously updated until 1960. The city of Munich was surveyed from 1809, charted at a scale of 1:2500 and drawn on stone. The present stone plate NW I.1. displays the north-western part of the historical Munich city centre with the Herzog-Max-Burg, the castle of Duke Maximilian, as well as parts of the Max-Vorstadt (suburb) in the state of 1849. It served for the production of a general map at a scale of 1:5000. For Munich, it was decided in 1876 to continue the cadastral maps at a scale of 1:1000. The stone plate, therefore, was not updated as master copy for printing and thus it still presents itself in the state of the year 1849.