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Gesher Galicia is also organized for the purpose of maintaining networking and online discussion groups and to promote and support Jewish heritage preservation work in the areas of the former Galicia. You can search our free All Galicia Database, Map Room, and archival inventories, and read about member benefits starting at $50 per year.
- Cadastral Maps
Cadastral Maps – The Gesher Galicia Map Room. An excerpt...
- Street Maps and General City Plans
This section of the Gesher Galicia Map Room presents a...
- Map Sources
Sources of Historical Maps and Other Information – The...
- Map References
Historical Map References, Tools, and other Information –...
- Special Maps
Special Maps – The Gesher Galicia Map Room. An 1873 map of...
- Data Maps
The historical maps are part of Gesher Galicia's long-term...
- Regional Maps
Gesher Galicia is also organized for the purpose of...
- Kornman's Beautiful 1898 Transport Map of Galicia and Bukovina
A transport route map showing highways, railways, and...
- Cadastral Maps
- Maps of The Partitions of Poland
- Maps of The Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Maps of Galician Kreise
- Maps of Interwar Poland
- Maps of The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ("Galicia") was created as a crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1772 as part of the First Partition of Poland, an agreement with the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire to divide what had been the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Third Partition of Poland in 1795 added more land to Galicia, but for f...
This group of maps depicts the larger empire of which Galicia was a part. Like Galicia but on a much greater scale, that empire evolved from the 1770s until its dissolution after World War I; the changes complicate any study of central Europe, not only for the shifting borders and political alliances but also through the official and common names o...
Within the Kingdom of Galicia, the territory was divided into administrative units called "kreise" ("circles", in German). The kreise were roughly comparable in size and population to small provinces or states, or large districts in other countries and at other times. Galician kreis boundaries shifted over the decades, as the collections of kreis m...
At the end of World War I, the Kingdom of Galicia was absorbed mostly intact into the newly-formed Second Polish Republic, and it would remain under Polish rule until the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union which triggered World War II.
At the start of World War II, a large part of southeastern Poland was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939; formal annexation of the land of former eastern Galicia and adjacent territories was decreed at Soviet, Ukrainian SSR, and regional levels in December 1939. New district (raion) boundaries were formally defined within si...
The historical maps are part of Gesher Galicia's long-term Map Room project to digitize and assemble high-scale Austrian imperial cadastral maps of Galician places relevant to Jewish and other family historians. For more information about Galician cadastral maps, see the Reference section in the Map Room and browse the hundreds of assembled ...
Summary: Gesher Galicia’s unique Maps Project connects people to places across time, and uses geography – scaled from villages to empires – to help tell the stories of people’s lives. When combined with vital records, cadastral maps can help researchers locate the places where their family homes once stood throughout Galicia.
Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people research their Jewish family roots in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire province of Galicia, which is today southeastern Poland and southwestern Ukraine. Our organization's primary focus is researching Jewish roots in Galicia, but the diverse community records in our databases contain names that span all the ethnic and ...
About Gesher Galicia. Modification (color/removal of text) by Sarah Cohen-Smith of Todros Geller’s From Land to Land, 1926, wood engraving. Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and ...
May 19, 2022 · A new look for the Gesher Galicia Map Room, and new information to help you use it! https://maps.geshergalicia.org/ We are proud that the Map Room has...
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