Analiza digitală a reprezentării cartografice a orașului Sebeș din 1769
Digital Analysis of the 1769 Cartographic Representation of Sebeș

Summary/Abstract: In the first decades following the annexation of Transylvania to the Habsburg dominions, the Austrian military engineers produced a series of topographic plans representing the Saxon cities of Brașov, Sibiu, Mediaș, Bistrița and Sighișoara. In the case of Sebeș, the smallest urban center of the Transylvanian Saxons, the first cartographic depiction was only completed in 1769, during a general survey of the seat [administrative subdivision] of Mühlbach/Sebeș. This limited survey preceded the mapping of the entire Grand Principality of Transylvania (First Habsburg Military Survey), which took place between 1769 and 1773. The article presents the analysis of the 1769 cartographic representation of Sebeș using the open-source software Quantum GIS 3.4. After a scanned copy of the map was georeferenced and digitized, the investigation proceeded with a comprehensive description of the historical topography of Sebeș. We examined the roads, the hydrographic network, the inner city with its Medieval and Early Modern fortifications, the churches and cemeteries, the suburbs, the vineyards, gardens and orchards, as well as the mills and dams on the Sebeș river.

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