Im Westen nichts Neues? Die NS-Stadtplanung im annektierten Luxemburg und ihre Erforschung im digitalen Kontext
Nothing new in the West? Nazi urban planning in annexed Luxembourg and its research in a digital context

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the possibilities of the digital processing of historical maps in various different digital lexicons. It focuses, in particular, on a project by the University of Luxembourg called Luxatlas. This is a genuinely digital, online atlas that considers the urban development of Luxembourg City since 1820. The article discusses the chances, risks and possibilities of integrating existing planning materials from the years 1941–1944 into the digital atlas in a contextualizing manner. The plans mentioned derive from the German occupation of Luxembourg, when the country was not only occupied by German troops, but also annexed and incorporated into the neighboring Gau Moselland. As a consequence, the establishment of a general development plan should tie the country to the Reich both infrastructurally and socio-culturally. The Leipzig city planner Hubert Ritter, an architect originally devoted to the Neues Bauen, was responsible for drawing up the plans. It is for these reasons, amongst others, that his urban planning principles for Luxembourg had a remarkable longevity and were taken up again in the late 1950s by the local planning authorities, which had been active under Hubert Ritter during the occupation.

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