GIS Dataset Nürnberg War Damage Maps WWII

The city of Nürnberg (as many cities) recorded war damage on paper maps during WWII, using cadastral base maps. This dataset provides a vectorised representation of the 1942 cadastral map with building footprints as basic geo-features. These are enriched with data from thematic maps on heritage values and war damage.

Version 1 contains:

The QGIS Project file

A Geopackage file with the building footprint geometry layer, “Gebaeude_Nuernberg_Altstadt_V1”. On this layer the thematic information from the maps has been added as attribute values. Every building footprint feature has one value per attribute. Which means that in places where a building footprint contains more than one categorisation on a map this model only has the value of the most prominent categorisation. This reduction will be changed in later versions of the geopackage.There are also several layers without geometries. These hold the categorisation information from the historical maps, “Legend_X_265”. Additionally, the “Source_Overview” layer links map sources and attributes in the geometry layer.

Citation:

Please Cite the War Damage Atlas alongside the Dataset:

Enss, Carmen M. Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland: Stadtkartierung und Heritage Making Im Wiederaufbau Um 1945. 1st ed. Basel/Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.