Abstract

This paper deals with the unwritten story of one of the largest collections of early-modern military maps in pre-war Germany, its later dispersion to different institutions, as well as the attempts to reconstruct this cimelia or treasured library of the former Bavarian Army, founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century. During World War II most of the maps of the Wehrkreisbücherei VII were stored in several locations outside of Munich, and survived destruction. After 76 years we can reconstruct the unwritten odyssey of this important map collection. One part was integrated into the Bavarian State Library, where some valuable manuscript maps were recently cataloged. The largest section was taken by American soldiers to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., where it was stored for more than a decade. This cache was restored to Germany in 1962, when a political dispute arose between the German State and the Free State of Bavaria that was not settled until 1968. This collection became part of the Wehrbereichsbibliothek VI, located since 1978 at Munich’s Bundeswehr University. Unfortunately, due to political decisions in 1984, this section was relocated to a provincial museum.

摘要

这篇论文讲述了战前德国最大的早期现代军事地图收藏之一的不成文故事，它后来分散到不同的机构，以及重建这个前巴伐利亚军队的 cimelia 或珍贵图书馆的尝试，始建于十九世纪初。二战期间，德国国防军 VII 的大部分地图都存放在慕尼黑以外的几个地方，并在遭到破坏后幸免于难。76 年后，我们可以重建这一重要地图集的不成文之旅。一部分被整合到巴伐利亚州立图书馆中，最近在那里编目了一些有价值的手稿地图。最大的部分被美国士兵带到华盛顿特区的国会图书馆，在那里存放了十多年。该藏品于 1962 年归还给德国，当时德国与巴伐利亚自由州之间发生了政治争端，直到 1968 年才得以解决。该藏品成为自 1978 年以来位于慕尼黑联邦国防军大学的 Wehrbereichsbibliothek VI 的一部分。不幸的是，由于 1984 年的政治决定，该部分被搬迁到省级博物馆。