Swedish military cartography of the Thirty Years’ War. The example of Pomerania and the New March (Neumark).
Swedish military cartography of the Thirty Years’ War. The example of Pomerania and the New March (Neumark).

Summary/Abstract: Swedish military cartography during the Thirty Years’ War is a model example of the development of ways and methods of mapping in a period of dynamic development of mapping new areas of the world. This development was made by military engineers and was primarily aimed at meeting the needs of the military. During the war and in the period, just after it, almost all types and types of maps were created, which soon began to function in cartography as independent directions of its development. They are characterized on the example of works created for the lands of the former Pomeranian Principality and the Brandenburg New March. They are mostly kept in the collection of the Swedish War Archive (Krigsarkivet) in Stockholm and remain in the manuscripts. These works also included elusive prints, which, although not of Swedish provenance, were related to the presence of the Swedish army in the territory of the Reich, and which are an interesting and little-known contribution to the use of the maps and the towns plans as a propaganda tool.

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