Map services

Discover the objects of the Kulturdatenbank on maps – in your browser, as thematic maps or as geodata services for your own GIS.

Detail of the map of all heritage sites

Map of all heritage sites

All objects on one map – grouped, filterable by subject area and usable on smartphones.

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Geodata services

The data is provided via standardised interfaces and can be integrated directly into GIS applications such as QGIS.

WMS – ObjectsAll objects, by subject area and by category (GetCapabilities)
WFS – ObjectsGML, GeoJSON, CSV or Shape – all objects, by subject area and by category (GetCapabilities)
WMS – historical mapsGeological maps 1877–1910, wine-growing map 1868, town plans and maps of the Trier area (GetCapabilities)
WMS – historic road networkRoman long-distance and local roads of the region, Roman and medieval road network of the city of Trier (GetCapabilities)
JSON / GeoJSON-APIObjects, search and GeoJSON with filters and bounding box

Layers in the object service: “objekte” (all), one per subject area “bereich_…” and one per category “kategorie_…”, e.g. kategorie_sakralbauten. The groups “bereiche” and “kategorien” show all of them at once.

Historical maps

Old maps and town plans of the region – one click opens the map of all heritage sites and zooms to the sheet. With the comparison slider, any map can be placed next to today’s map or another historical map.

Trier Region

Tranchot survey of the Rhineland (1803–1820)

Kartenaufnahme der Rheinlande (survey of the Rhineland) by Tranchot and von Müffling, 1803–1820 – statewide map service of the Landesamt für Vermessung und Geobasisinformation Rheinland-Pfalz.

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Trier Region

Prussian survey map (1843–1878)

Prussian survey (Preußische Landesaufnahme) 1843–1878 at a scale of 1:25,000 – statewide map service of the Landesamt für Vermessung und Geobasisinformation Rheinland-Pfalz.

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Trier Region

Saar-Moselle wine-growing map 1868

Saar-Moselle wine-growing map for the administrative district (Regierungsbezirk) of Trier, Clotten 1868. Four sheets combined into one map.

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Trier Region

Geological map 1:25,000 (1877–1910)

Geological map of Prussia and neighbouring states, scale 1:25,000. 30 sheets covering the Trier region, surveyed between 1877 and 1910.

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Individual sheets with legend (30)

Trier Region

Ordnance survey sheets around 1890 (1886–1896)

Ordnance survey sheets (Messtischblätter) of the Prussian new survey at 1:25,000, editions 1886–1896 – 42 sheets of the Trier region, georeferenced in the Virtual Map Forum of SLUB Dresden. No edition from this period exists for some sheets in the south.

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Trier Region

Ordnance survey sheets around 1936 (TK25, as of 1936)

Topographic map 1:25,000 (Messtischblatt) as of 1936 – for each sheet the edition valid at the time (mostly 1934–1940, some sheets from 1914). Time-travel service of the Rhineland-Palatinate surveying office, within Rhineland-Palatinate only.

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Trier and surroundings

Trier and surroundings 1802

Topographical map of the city of Trier and its surroundings dating from 1802.

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Trier and surroundings

Trier area, Pelet 1838

Trier – town plan with its immediate surroundings. Lithograph by Kaeppelin, 15 Quai Voltaire, Paris, after [Jean Jacques?] Pelet, 1838. 20 × 32 cm. Shows the area immediately around Trier with Wasserliesch, Biewer, Olewig and Konz.

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Trier and surroundings

Trier area 1905

Map of the area around Trier at a scale of 1:40,000.

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Compare with today’s map Source: Published by Heinrich Stephanus, Trier. Lithography: Geographische Anstalt von C. Welzbacher, Darmstadt WMS layer umgebung_trier_1905

Trier town plans

Trier, Fort St. Jean c. 1736

Claude Mathieu: plan of Fort St. Jean, built in Trier in 1735 and 1736, c. 1736, coloured drawing.

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Compare with today’s map Source: Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, Inv.-Nr. IV 769 WMS layer trier_fort_st_jean_1735

Trier town plans

Trier town plan, Hawich 1823

Map of the city of Trier, drawn by C. Hawich, lithograph by C. F. Müller in Karlsruhe, published in 1823 by I. I. Lintz. Scale approximately 1:6,000.

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Trier town plans

Trier town plan, Berthold 1830

The historic “Plan von Trier” by August Berthold is an important cartographic document that shows the city of Trier and its surroundings in detail in the first half of the 19th century.

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Trier town plans

Trier town plan, Büchel 1856

Map of Trier based on J. Büchel’s cadastral survey, lithographed by Hochmuth, published by F. A. Gall. Scale 1:5,000, showing individual houses with the official house numbers from 1851.

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Individual places

Kordel, village 1857

This 1857 map was made to record the location of land parcels and to tax their owners. This original cadastre shows the parcels of a cadastral district as well as buildings, field names, paths and streams. Changes to parcels and buildings were added to the map later.

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Individual places

Pfalzel, historical map

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Individual places

Prüm, explosion area

The map shows the area of the 1949 explosion disaster on the Kalvarienberg north-west of Prüm town centre.

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Thematic maps

Data sources of the maps

In addition to geodata from the Kulturdatenbank, data from the following bodies is integrated:

Disclaimer: We endeavour to keep this service up to date at all times. Nevertheless, the data provided here may contain outdated, inaccurate or incorrect information. Because external services (WMS) are used, the full temporal and spatial availability of the integrated geoinformation cannot generally be guaranteed.