Two maps over the agrarian landscape of the Vadstena plains ca 1640 -- from the dissertation "Ostergotland "Västanstång": studies of the older agrarian landscape and its genesis"

SND-ID: snd1122-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/d6g1-1674

Citation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Staffan Helmfrid - Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen

Research principal

Stockholm University - Kulturgeografiska institutionen rorId

Description

This study is an investigation of the agrarian landscape in the western part of Ostergotland County (in Sweden). The study was published in the form of a dissertation in Human Geography written (in German) by Steffan Helmfrid, and defended in 1962. Two maps were produced as a part of the dissertation, based on historical material. These maps show the agrarian landscape as it was around 1640. Helmfrid's analogue process for producing these maps was unique for the 1960s. These two maps are made available here.

Two maps are made available here:

1) Name: No Title (Working version)
scale: 1:50,000
coordinate system: no coordinates
file format: tiff (.tif)
file size: 198 MB
file name: helmfrid_orginal_photoshop.tif

... Show more..
This study is an investigation of the agrarian landscape in the western part of Ostergotland County (in Sweden). The study was published in the form of a dissertation in Human Geography written (in German) by Steffan Helmfrid, and defended in 1962. Two maps were produced as a part of the dissertation, based on historical material. These maps show the agrarian landscape as it was around 1640. Helmfrid's analogue process for producing these maps was unique for the 1960s. These two maps are made available here.

Two maps are made available here:

1) Name: No Title (Working version)
scale: 1:50,000
coordinate system: no coordinates
file format: tiff (.tif)
file size: 198 MB
file name: helmfrid_orginal_photoshop.tif

2) Name: "The Agrarian Landscape on the Vadstena plains around the year 1640"
scale: 1:100,000
coordinate system: RT 90 2.5 gon V (EPSG 3021)
file format: geotiff (.tif)
file size: 40 MB
file name: helmfrid_rectify.tif

The first map is an unpublished working version that was used as the basis for the second map which is the published version contained in Helmfrid's dissertation. The working version has a larger-scale, which means it is more detailed than the second map.

The second map was digitized and rectified in 2009 by Johan Berg, also from Stockholm University. This was done as part of a project on land relations during the Younger Iron Age in western Ostergotland. (See link to separate data , 2019-102, in SND's catalog). The working version (the first map) was digitized in 2019 when it was decided to publish Helmfrid's maps via the Swedish National Data Service.

The working version was based on a compilation of 400 smaller village and farm maps, all from the 1640s. These sources can be found in the following historical property maps (in Swedish: geometriska jordeböcker): D5, D6, D7, D8 and D10 (See https://riksarkivet.se/visa-kartsamlingar -- "D" refers to maps from Ostergotland county). All the original historical maps were signed by one surveyor -- Larson Groth.

The rectified map can be opened in most Geographic Information System (GIS) programs. The map can also be opened in image editing software, but without coordinates. The working version (the first map) is also a raster file, but because the working version was never rectified, it has been saved as a normal tiff file (.tif), not a geotiff. It can be opened in image editing programs like Photoshop or opensource Gimp.

More information on how Helmfrid produced these maps and a link and reference to his dissertation can be found (in Swedish) in the attached documentation file. Show less..

Language

Method and outcome

Time period(s) investigated

Data format / data structure

Data collection
Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Kulturgeografiska institutionen

Topic and keywords

Research area

Other agricultural sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Human geography (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

History (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Boundaries (INSPIRE topic categories)

Imagery / base maps / earth cover (INSPIRE topic categories)

Farming (INSPIRE topic categories)

Economy (INSPIRE topic categories)

Publications

Sort by name | Sort by year

Helmfrid, Staffan: Östergötland "Västanstång". Studien über die ältere Agrarlandschaft und ihre Genese. 17 maj 1962. Medd. från Geografiska Institutet vid Stockholms Högskola nr 140. Geografiska annaler 44:1-2. 277 sidor + kartbilaga.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/520139

Berg, Johan. 2009. "Fornlämningar och jordägande: om framväxten av det medeltida sociala landskapet i ljuset av fornlämningarna från yngre järnåldern" i Skuggor i ett landskap: Västra Östergötlands slättbygd under järnåldern och medeltid, Resultat av ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt. Anders Kaliff (ed). Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet. ISBN 9789172095434, s. 102-145.

If you have published anything based on these data, please notify us with a reference to your publication(s). If you are responsible for the catalogue entry, you can update the metadata/data description in DORIS.

License

CC BY 4.0

Versions

Version 1.0. 2019-09-25

Version 1.0: 2019-09-25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/d6g1-1674

Contacts for questions about the data

This resource has the following relations

Is referenced by 2019-102

Published: 2019-09-25
Last updated: 2019-11-06