Hand in Hand: Editions and Basic Research. The Example of the Historical Atlas of Bavaria 1950 to 2023 (Hand in Hand: Editions- und Grundlagenforschung. Das Beispiel Historischer Atlas von Bayern 1950 bis 2023)
Author : Wolfgang Wüst
Abstract :
No volume of the intergenerational research project “Historical Atlas of Bavaria” (HAB) could have been completed without the assistance of printed sources and editions. As of mid-2024, this amounted to 68 volumes for the Old Bavaria (Altbayern) section, published between 1950 and 2023, 32 volumes for the Franconia region, and last but not least, 20 volumes for the Swabia region, including the HAB Dillingen by Regina Hindelang, published at the end of 2023, and the HAB Illertissen in an imperfect first version by Thomas Reich, which has been available online since 2005. As a source-oriented reference work on the history of Bavarian districts prior to the territorial reform of the 1970s, its editors were and are highly dependent on the reliability of edited sources. The list of printed sources published by publishers, academies, commissions, and editors, including statistics, regesta, and genealogical handbooks, numbered no fewer than 67 titles in the case of the HAB Neu-Ulm, published in 2011. In contrast, if I have calculated correctly, there were and are 932 titles from secondary literature covering the period from the Bronze Age and Urnfield period to the present day, which occasionally include source editions in the text or in the appendix. In the case of Neu-Ulm, edition-based references thus accounted for 7.2 percent of all literature and source references. Further research must show how representative the case study-based intersection will be in the state average.
Keywords :
Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Old Bavaria, Franconia, Swabia, editions, literature, printed sources, archives, libraries.
