An Atlas of the German Empire/Atlas des Deutschen Reichs

An Atlas of the German Empire is a free online version of the 1883 edition of the Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein. The maps used on this website came from the collection of the University of Wisconsin‐Madison and were digitized by the University's Digital Content Group (now named the Digital Collections Center). According to the website, this map was chosen for digitization because of its usefulness for genealogists. Genealogists can use this map to find towns, villages, and churches in the German Empire from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The maps in this atlas also...