Dr Jörn Hentschel
j.hentschel@uni-jena.de

Institut für Ökologie und Evolution
Herbarium Haussknecht (JE)
Fürstengraben 1
07737 Jena
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 3641 9-492 83

Not open to the public—visits by appointment only

Topographic maps

Historical Collection of Topographic Maps


This collection comprises around 5,000 national and international topographic maps from the end of the 19th century until the present. It includes educational geographical wall maps, 1:25,000 grid maps, as well as folded maps of different regions of the world. The collection is utilized for research carried out at Herbarium Haussknecht. This collection represents an archive which has been compiled since the end of the 19th century to link the origin of herbarium objects with geographic data.