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Background article

Capital of the Saxon Garden Baroque on the Vistula River

The cartographic drawings of Warsaw from 1730-1762, preserved in the Dresden and Warsaw collections, illustrate the architectural garden city where the artistic ideas of the Saxon Baroque were crystallized. These exceptional documents bear testimony to a golden era where the urban landscape and cultural life of the city grew and flourished, stimulated by the patronage of the Saxon royal court, the great families of the Polish nobility, and the cooperation of Polish and Saxon craftsmen and artists.
Bildergalerie-Seitenelement

Galerieelemente Instruments and methods

Atlas

Historical-Topographical Atlas of Silesian Towns

The atlas shows the development of selected towns in Silesia from the 19th to the 21st century. It focusses on urban expansion and the development of settlement as well as the expansion of modern transport infrastructure.
Picture gallery

Instruments and methods

At the time of Copernicus, how did astronomers work? Despite being relatively simple, the instruments and methods were constantly improving.
Research project

Names change, places too. The Challenge of Developing Geodata-Based Gazetteer Research Technologies and Methods

Using place-name directories (gazetteers) as an example, the project examines the genesis and development of geographical systems of knowledge and the impact of different actors on geographical discourses. The technical focus is on the development of a web application for the analysis of existing...
Library holdings

Northeast Library

The Northeast Library is a specialized scientific library that deals with the regional history of northern East Central Europe and the history of the Russian Germans. The total holdings comprise approximately 170,000 media units. It forms part of the library network of the University of Hamburg.
Research project

On the Topography of the Shoah - Wrocław 1933-1949

The time of the Shoah in Breslau/Wrocław is a widely neglected topic that has been the subject of a research project at the TU Dresden in recent years – extending across the boundaries of national historiographies and temporal caesurae. Participants from Germany, Poland, Israel, Belgium, Italy...
Background article

The debate between Austrian and Hungarian

The region of Burgenland was transferred to Austria in 1921. After the First World War the country was compensated with a territory which had previously been a part of Hungary. Since its “birth”, Austria’s historical claim to the region was contested by Hungarian historians. In contrast, Austrian historians were eager to integrate Burgenland into their new national histories. What follows is a comparative case study of how historians participated in creating histories based on nation, region, or ethnicity.
Research project

Worlds of Maps – Worlds of Texts

After political independence came Nazi occupation and then communism: the cities of East Central Europe were affected by numerous upheavals and caesuras in the middle of the 20th century. War and destruction, changing administrations, the subsequent reconstruction and new, ideologically shaped urban...