%0 Journal Article
%T Cartographic Materials in Prussian Case File Administration Department Records from the 18th Century
%A Gut, Paweł
%J Archeion
%V 2018
%N 119
%P 377-393
%K case file administration department, cartography, file registration office, maps, plans, map chamber, Prussia, administration
%@ 0066-6041
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/archeion/article/materialy-kartograficzne-w-registraturze-pruskiej-kancelarii-akt-spraw-w-xviii-w
%X Maps, especially large-scale maps, became a very popular form of documentation in state governance, real estate and communal property management between the 16th and 18th century. In Prussia, such documents constituted an important element of official activities. This was also reflected in how they were handled by file registration offices. Separate collections were established for maps and plans (map chambers — Plankammer) at the central level of the Royal Cabinet in the 17th century, and in the General Directorate in the 18th century. Some scholars are of the opinion that similar procedures were implemented in provincial offices, especially in their war and treasury chambers (Kriegs- und Domainen Kammer). However, research shows that, in the aforementioned offices, cartographic documentation was distributed among particular file registration offices (domains, forests, cities). Maps and plans in their possession constituted separate collections or series, and a large part of them was incorporated into case files in the form of sewn-in appendices or loose documents in case file volumes (sewn files, adligats, fascicles). The format or technique in which a document was created did not matter, only its significance to the case it was related to was important.