Veszprem(ian) MapWanderer
With the Veszprém Map Wanderer, we are working on implementing a new approach to urban history and on a novel, digital form of presenting the city. This approach has been present in international and Hungarian professional circles for years.
Based on the street and house structure of the historical core of the city between 1850 and 1950, the Veszprém Map Wanderer will be a local history database presenting essential data on streets, houses and their inhabitants on digitised, interactive, multi-layered historical maps. The developers will create base maps of three moments in time (1857, 1927 and 1947), from cadastral survey maps (1856, 1927, 1940/50) and survey maps (1927, 1947). Selected archival sources (house plans, land registry books, contemporary photographs) linked to the houses and plots will then be added to the database.
By 2023, the Veszprém Map Wonderer will be a multi-layered map-based database. By clicking on a plot or a house, the history of the property or the building will be displayed with the help of the recorded data and the related digital archival sources. The sequence of ownership of the plots, houses, other buildings, land registry books from the archives, plans and contemporary photographs can be brought up from the records. A selection of exciting stories will be available from the descriptions built into the database.
The Map Wanderer will allow visitors to wander in space and time through Veszprém's past, allowing them to follow the city's transformation in time and space from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
Implemented by: Hungarian National Archives
Date: 2023
Location: Veszprém
