German Genealogy: Danube-Swabians: Gazetteers and Maps

Gazetteers

• On-line:
  • Donauschwaben Village List
  • Shtetl Seeker is an interactive, fuzzy-search gazetteer with maps that includes 24 countries east of Germany, Austria and Slovenia (inclusive).
• Microfilm:
  Many of the Imperial Habsburg gazetteers have been microfilmed and are available from the Family History Library. Search the Locality Catalog for Europe under Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania.
• Books:
  • Brandtner, Paul, Verzeichnis der deutschen Siedlungen in Ungarn 1944, 1956, Munich [Index of German Settlements in Hungary 1944]
  • Crusius, Christian, Topographisches Post-Lexikon aller Ortschaften der k.k. Erbländer, [Topographic post office dictionary of all Imperial localities of the hereditary lands], four parts in 13 volumes and 3 supplementary volumes, Vienna 1798-1828. Part IV, volumes 1-5 covers Hungary including the incorporated provinces and Transylvania Saxons, 1805-11
  • Dvorzsak, Janos, Magyaroszag Helysegnevtara, [Gazetteer of Hungary] Budapest: Havi Füzetek, 1877. (This local gazetteer was used by the FHL to catalog its Hungarian collection. Volume 1 is available on microfilm no. 599564 and Volume 2 on microfilm no. 973041. This gazetteer is also part of the FHL's Core Collection: icrofiche 6000840 (a set of 19) and is thus available at all Family History Centers. 6000840 in all Family History Centers. It lists 807 villages in the three counties that make up the Banat in the year 1877. Many of the villages have more than one name. The names are generally Hungarian, but German names are also included. This usually applies, although not for every case, when the prefixes Deutsch/Nemet, Magyar, Szerb, Gross/Nagy, Banat, and Kis are used. In fact, the Gazetteer of Hungary usually puts this prefix in parentheses and adds it as a suffix to the root name. Thus Kisorosz becomes Orosz (Kis-), and you find it listed with the O's. Also, for many cases, compound names are shown both hyphenated and not hyphenated. The gazetteer identifies the churches that the residents of a particular village attended in the year 1877. For example it lists Charleville as having 787 Roman Catholics and Seultourn (Seulteur, Szeultour) as having 869 Roman Catholics and they attended the church in Szent-Hubert, which had 1376 Roman Catholics. If a village had its own parish church the religion is in bold capital letters. However, this gazetteer is only valid for 1877. For example, the Szent-Hubert records contains entries from Heufold (Heufeld, Nagy Toszeg) and Masztort (Kis-Toszeg) for the years from 1771 to 1790. After that the data is in the Heufold records.)
  • Kosa, Pal, Magyar Helyseg Nev, 1000 page gazeteer, published in Hungary, contains location names (in Hungarian and foreign languages, e.g. Slovak) of greater Hungary, their county and district affiliation, population by nationality and reference to a county map. It has foreign sections where the localities are listed in the language of today's countries with Hungarian translation. It lists all 64 historic counties with district breakdown, and 64 color, detailed county maps and their ethnic populations in 1910. There is also an introduction in German. Cost: $39 including shipping. Send check/money order to: Kosa Pal, H-6500 Baja, Parti u. 12., Hungary. Email contact: pkosa@bajabela.sulinet.hu
  • Lug, Victor, Deutsche Ortsnamen in Ungarn, 1917, Reichenberg [German Placenames in Hungary]
  • Markovic, Milica, Geografsko-istorijski imenik naselja Vojvodine. Za period od 1853. godine do danas, 1966, Novi Sad [Geographical-historical Placename Book for Vojvodina. For the period 1853 to today.]
  • Regenyi, Isabella, Anton Scherer.
    • Donauschwäbisches Ortsnamenbuch, 1980, 188 pages and 12 maps [Danube-Swabian Placenames Book, out of print]
    • Donauschwäbisches Ortsnamenbuch, second edition 1987, Schriesheim, AKdFF. 204 pages and 12 maps. [The Danube-Swabian Placenames Book is also available as FHL microfilms 1256334-1256335] [errata]
  • Rudolph, H., Vollständiges geographisch-topographisch-statistisches Orts-Lexikon von Deutschland sowie der unter Österreichs und Preußens Botmäßigkeit stehenden nicht deutschen Länder, [Complete geographical-topographical-statistical gazetteer of Germany as well as the non-German countries which are under Austria and Prussia], Volumes 1-2, Weimar o. J. [FHL-Microfilm Nr. 1256334 and 1256335]
  • Schmidt, Sepp, Alphabetisches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Banater Schwaben 1930 auf Grund der Volkszählung des Königreichs Großrumänien. Munich 1980 [Alphabetical Index of the Communities of the Banat Schwaben in 1930]
  • Die deutschen Siedlungen in Rumänien nach der Bestandsaufnahme vom 3. November 1940, 1941, Hermannstadt, [The German Settlements in Romania after the Survey of November 3, 1940, includes a map of the German settlements in the Banat, Bergland and Transylvania regions. Produced by the Institut für Statistik und Bevölkerungspolitik der Deutschen Volksgruppe in
  • Gemeindeverzeichnis für Mittel- und Ostdeutschland und die deutschen Auslandssiedlungen. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Frankfurt/M. 1970, Verlagsdruckerei, Limburg/Lahn, 457 Seiten.

Maps

• On-line Maps:
  • Historical Maps on this site
  • FEEFHS Map Room
  • Current road maps of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina
  • Home Page of Hungarian Cartography
• Central Europe:
  • Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa, [General Map of Centeral Europe] 1:200.000 scale, borders as of about 1890, in parts. By the Federal Office for Calibration and Surveying, Land Survey, Krotenthallergasse 3, 1080 Vienna, Austria (265 multi-color pages, (each page representing the contents of a complete degree field).
  • Karten von Mitteleuropa, 1:200.000 scale, available from Genealogy Unlimited.
  • Maps and Gazetteers of Eastern and Central Europe from Macbeth Fiche & Film Catalogue in Australia.
  • Pierson Graphics Corp.
    899 Broadway
    Denver, CO 80203 USA
    (303) 623-4299
  • Austria-Hungary:
    • Monarchy Map of Austria-Hungary, scale 1:1.5 million, showing the Double-Monarchy in its 1914 borders, with counties. Available at: freytag & berndt, Brunner Str. 69, A-1231 Wien, Austria, phone 1-8699090, fax 1-8698855, unfolded, price 25 DM
    • 1:75.000 scale, outstanding work by the Austrian Military-Geographical Institute, available via the FHL, microfilm no. 1045395 or on microfiche.
    • 1:50.000 scale, Series M705 of the US Military Map Service Technical Unit, 1961, based on a series of scale 1:25.000 maps, published of the Austrian Military-Geographical Institute. The University library of British Columbia is said to have a complete card record. With this scale, both roads and buildings can be clearly distinguished.
    • Hungary:
      • American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset St., P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903, USA. Offers maps of former and current Hungarian territories listing the towns and villages with the German, Hungarian, and Romanian names. One such is a 1:500,000 map of Transylvania/Erdelyi, map which shows an area from Belgrade in the west to almost Iasi in the east, north of the Carpathians to, but not including Bukowina -- with place names in Hungarian and Romanian, as well as in German for the larger towns/cities. Contains a bilingual index. Telephone: 1-908-846-5777.
    • Romania:
      • Carpati International Inc.
        152 Madison Ave
        NY, NY 10016-5424 USA
        212-447-1534
      • Romanian National Tourist Office
        342 Madison Ave
        NY, NY 10173-0002 USA
        212-697-6971 (Attn: Alb Simion)
    • Yugoslavia:
      • 1:100,000 scale maps are available from the US National Archives Cartographic and Architectural Branch Washington, D.C. 20408. The series was made in 1943 for the Army Map

Atlases

• Krallerts, Wilfried, Atlas zur Geschichte der deutschen Ostsiedlung, [Atlas of the History of the German Settlement in the East], 1958, Berlin-Hannover
• Magocsi, Paul Robert, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, University of Washington Press, 1993, 218 S. ISBN #0-295-97445-1.
• Atlas von Österreich-Ungarn 1892. [Atlas of Austria Hungary 1892.] This Atlas contains 13 maps, published 1892 by the Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. Maps for the following areas are included: Austria-Hungary, upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Steiermark, Kaernten, Krain and Istrien; Tyrol, Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia, Hungary, Galicia and Bukovina, as well as maps of Vienna (2) and Budapest, with place name directory (very small places were not noted) for all maps, spiral binding, size: approx. 43 x 28 cm, 80 pages.
• See also atlases covering the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire

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