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Modern Maps

• Street map of Gargzdai on Wikimapia.

• www.maps.lt
  • Lithuania - click "+" on scale, and drag map with mouse to magnify down to street level. Click "Ortofoto" for aerial photo.


• openstreetmaps.org

20th Century

• lithuanianmaps.com
  • Lithuanian topographic maps 1920-1939
  • #1300  Gargzdai and Klaipeda
  • Karte des Westlichen Russlands  (1897-1921)
  • Kowno 1:25000 (1916)
  • Memel 1:100,000 (Polish, P26S32, 1935)
  • Sveksna 1:100,000 (Polish P26S33, 1935) shows Gargzdai

• 1:25000 #0294 Laugallen - Gorschdy (1940) at deutsche fotothek.
  Unlike other editions of Map #0294, which stop at the German-Russian border, this map continues over to the Russian side, based on an 1895 Russian map (1:42,000). Very detailed treatment of Gorschdy.


• chartsandmaps.com - Soviet maps 1:50,000 index sheet;  N-34-007-4 Gargzdai;  N-34-008-3 (includes Vezaitine Forest) (1984-85)


• Encyclopedia of Russian Narrow Gauge Railways
  • WWII German map of "Reichs-Kommissariat Ostland" (ca. 1942) (showing Garsden)
  • Lithuanian Railways (1931)
  • Lithuanian Railways (modern)

• GenWiki
• Laugallen (Kr. Memel) - several maps showing Laugallen and Gargzdai - click on maps to enlarge
  
  
• Mapster.com
  • 1:300,000 maps of Lithuania, Poland and neighboring regions
  • index sheet to downloadable 1:25000 maps
    
  • index sheet to downloadable 1:100,000 maps


• www.mapywig.org (Map Archive of Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny)
  • Übersichtkarte von Mitteleuropa, R56 Tilsit 1:300,000 (1940) (showing Gargzdai)
  • Tilsit, Szawle, Koenigsburg, Kowno, Lomza, Grodno 1:300,000 (1914) (showing Gorzdy)
  • US Army Klaipeda (1944) (showing Gargzdai)
    
  • Memel-Heydekrug 1:100,000 (British copy) (showing Gorzdy)
  • Sveksna, P26S33 1:100,000 (1935) (Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny, Warsaw), showing Gargzdai
  • Ravensteins Kriegskarte No. 6 (ca. 1917) (showing Gorzdy)
  • Das Memelgebiet 1:100,000 (1934) (showing Gorzdy)
  • Memel (1944) (Deutsche Heereskarte 1:100,000) (showing Gargzdai)
  • Nimmersatt-Memel-Heydekrug Grossblatt 1 1:100,000 (1940) (showing Gorzdy)
  • Memel - Fortifications as of May 25, 1941 1:100,000 (showing Gargzdai)
  • Memel - German Army Map - positions as of mid-December, 1944  1:100,000 (showing Gargzdai)
  • Russian 1:126,000 (1872) (showing Gorzhdy)
  • Russian 1:84,000 IX-10 (1914) (showing Gorzhdy)
  • Russian N-34-7 1:50,000 (1894-1939) (showing Gorzhdy)
  • Russian N-34-8-C 1:50,000 (1894-1939) (Endreyavas, showing Vezaitines Forest)
  • Russian N-34-7 1:100,000 (1936) (showing Gorzhdy)
  • Russian N-34-II Klaipeda 1:200,000 (1937) (showing Gargzdai)
  • Russian  N-34-III, IV, IX, X Kenigsberg 1:200,000 (1944) (showing Gorzhdy)
  • IX-10-A German 1:25,000 (1915) (showing Gorzhdy)
  • VIII-10-H German 1:25,000 (1915) (NE portion of Vezaitines Forest)
  • IX-10-B German 1:25,000 (1915) (Vezaiciai and SW portion of Vezaitines Forest)
  • Ostpreussen Schroetter 1:150,000 (1802) (showing Garsden)



Links to 1:25000 maps (at mapywig) of areas near Gargzdai:

0192 Nimmersatt (1939)	0193 D.Crottingen (1939)	0194 Jakubowo (1940)
0292 Memel (1916)	0293 Plicken (1939)	0294 Laugallen (1939)
0392 Schmelz (1939)	0393 Götzhöfen (1939)	0394 Dawillen (1911)
0492 Schwarzort (1939)	0493 Prökuls (1941)	0494 Wilkieten (1912)	0495 Grünheide (1911)

• alternate versions of above 1:25000 maps at mapywig
  0292 Memel (1939)
0392 Schmelz (1916)
0494 Wilkieten (1941)

19th Century

• GenWiki
• Schroetter, 1796-1802 (showing Garsden/Gorszde)
• Images from Schroetter Karte (1:50,000)
  
  
• www.maps4u.lt - German, Lithuanian and Russian maps
  
• Schroetter Karte - Ost-Preussen nebst Preussich Litthauen - 1796-1802
• 1:126000 (3 verst) maps - Map 10-1 shows Gorzdy
  
• Federation of East European Family History Societies
  • East Prussia (1871) (showing Gorzdy)

• University of Wisconsin Map Collection
  • Ludwig Ravenstein - Atlas des Deutschen Reiches (1883) (Garsden is shown on Map 3b. Map is best viewed with reader set at 200% or 400% magnification.)
• maproom.org
  • Stieler's Hand-Atlas (1891)
    • South Sweden, Russian Baltic Provinces, Poland and West Russia (showing Grosdi)
    • German Empire, Sheet 2 (showing Gorshdy)
  • Bromme's Illustrirter Hand-Atlas (1862)
    • Prussia and Posen (showing Gorzdy [Garsden])
    • Prussian State and Mecklenburg (showing Gorzdy)
  • Romer's Atlas of Poland, 2d Ed. (1921)
    • The Jews - Internal Migrations

• University of Bremen
  • F. B. Engelhardt - Prussia (ca. 1840) (showing Garsden)

• David Rumsey Map Collection, University of California
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  • Arrowsmith, "Prussia & Poland" (1844) (showing Garsden)
  • Johnson, "Prussia Sweden Norway and Denmark" (1860) (showing Gorshedy)
  • Stieler,"Sud-Schweden, die Russischen Ostsee-Provinzen, Polen & West-Russland" (1875) (showing Grosdi)
  • Stieler,"Die Preussischen Provinzen Preussen Und Posen" (1875) (showing Garsden)
  • Johnston, "Russia SW, Poland" (1861) (showing Groshdi)
  • Johnston, "Baltic" (1861) (showing Garsden)
  • Karte des Deutschen Reiches (1893)
    
  • Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, "Russia Part III" (1834) (showing Gorjdy)

• Carte de Russie Europeene at gallica.bnf.fr - see Map 24 (showing Gorjdoui)
  

18th Century and Before

• David Rumsey Map Collection, University of California
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  • Faden, "Map of the Kingdom of Poland" (1799) (showing Gorsdy)
  • Cary, "Poland" (1799) (showing Gorsdy)
  • Cary, "Prussia" (1799) (Showing Gardensk)
  • Delarochette, "Empire of Germany (Northern Section)" (1790) (showing Garsden)
  • Kitchin, "Kingdom of Poland" (1787) (showing Garzdy)
  • for other maps, search for "Prussia map", "Lithuania map" or "Poland map"

• UCLA Library Map Collection

• National Library of Estonia - Cartography collection
  • Joan Janssonius - Livoniae (1642) (showing Gorczdy) (For magnified view click here (wikipedia commons))
  • Adam Olearius - Carte de la Livonie ou Lifland (1659) (showing Gorgzdy)
  • J. van Lugtenburg - Livonie, Curlande et Samogitie (1711) (showing Gürsden) (For magnified view click here (wikipedia commons))
  • Pierre van der Aa - La Livonie (ca. 1714-1729) (showing Gorczdy) (For magnified view click here (wikipedia commons))

• University of Tartu (Estonia)
  • Sanson d’Abbéville - La Curlande Duché et Semigalle autrefois de la Livonie; La Samogitie Duché en Lituanie (1659) (showing Gorgzdy/Garsden)
    
  • M. Seutter - Poloniae Regnum ut et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae (1740) (showing Gorjdy) 
    

• GenWiki - Memel (1650) (map detail stops at border but indicates Garsden beyond) (enlarged view) (further enlargement)

•  Lithuanianmaps.com 
  
• A. Ortelius, 1584 (showing Garsden)

• German Military Maps concerning WWII at www.mapywig.org
  Position May 25, 1941
  Position mid December, 1944


• Soviet Military Maps concerning WWII at www.rkka.ru/  
  
To translate above page from Russian: go to page, copy and paste url into google search, at search result click "Translate this page"
•  Grouping of parties at the eve of the Second World War (1941)
  
•  Initial Grouping of Forces: Plan Barbarossa (1941)
  
•  Direction of Impact of Nazi Troops: Plan Barbarossa (1941)
•  Military Operations in the Initial Period of the War (1941)
  
•  Defeat of the German fascist forces in the Baltic (1944)

• University of Alabama Map Collection
• Historical Maps of Prussia


• Year of the Lithuanian Book
  • Map of Typical Handiwork for the Northern Part of Lithuania Minor (showing Gargzdai)