This map refresh focuses on Galizien, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is located in east central Europe straddling modern-day southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. It was a neighbor to Bukovina and also the Russian areas of Volhynia and the northwestern tip of Bessarabia.
Much appreciation goes to Dave Gorz and John Kaminski of the Galizien German Descendants (GGD) for their continued work on this area and for allowing their work to be included in this project. Dave's work on village listings and parishes has been going on for years, with added focus in the last 14 months. John's work this time around included doing comparisons of data from multiple sources (see the list below), checking spelling and diacritics, and doing some map overlays of the parish and district boundary maps onto Google Earth and the Austrian military maps from on Mapire to visualize and verify what districts were in what parish.
The religion and parish fields were updated and now follow the map standard of noting the religion next to the parish. See the Data page for descriptions of each of the fields. Also larger towns and cities that were not originally German settlements but did have small percentage of Germans living in them were called out. The population for the year 1900 is included in the notes for these locations.
Sources used for this update include the following:
- Die deutschen Siedlungen in Galizien (Map of the German Settlements in Galicia), Rudolf Unterschütz, circa 1939.
- Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsrate vertretenen Königreiche und Länder (Gazetteer of the Crown Lands and Territories Represented in the Imperial Council), XII, Galizien (Galicia). Vienna, 1907.
- Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia. Author Brian J. Lenius. 3rd edition, 3rd printing, June 2010. WorldCat
- Gesher Galicia town locator
- Google Earth
- Historical Maps of the Habsburg Empire, Austrian Third Military Survey (1869-1887). Mapire.
- Übersicht über deutsche Siedlungen (Kolonien) und Einsiedlungen in ukrainische und polnische Dörfer : sowie Orte mit einer nicht bedeutenden deutschen Minderheit in Galizien von 1782 bis 1939 bzw. 1945 (Overview of German settlements/colonies and settlements in Ukrainian and Polish villages: as well as places with a non-significant German minority in Galicia from 1782 to 1939 and 1945). Author Ernst Hexel. 1977. WorldCat
Maps updated:
- Galizien Colonies
- German Colonies in the Austrian Empire (1772-1917)
- Germans from Russia Settlement Locations
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