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Maps & Historical Geography
Maps make it possible to place Jewish households, institutions, businesses, cemeteries, roads, and neighboring settlements within the changing landscape of Tarnobrzeg and Dzików. Read together with parcel registers, property records, resident lists, and documents that give house or lot numbers, they can turn names in a record into places in a town.
This page reproduces historical maps when the site has a clear basis for doing so and links to institutional or specialist collections when the map is better viewed at its source. The goal is both visual history and practical genealogical research.
Tarnobrzeg & Dzików Through Maps
1853 · The nineteenth-century town
Tarnobrzeg and Dzików, 1853
Public domain
This cadastral-era town plan shows Tarnobrzeg and adjoining Dzików before the transformations of the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The market-centered street pattern, Dzików estate landscape, fields, roads, and the relationship of the two settlements are visible at a glance.
For property research, use this overview together with the much more detailed full-color 1853 cadastral survey in the Gesher Galicia Map Room. That interactive reconstruction contains numbered parcels and buildings and can be compared with the contemporary parcel registers listed below.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons, from the Tarnobrzeg Digital Library; map dated 1853, author unknown. Commons identifies the image as public domain. The Gesher Galicia stitched and interactive presentation is a separate modern work and is linked rather than copied here.
1938 · On the eve of war
WIG detailed map of Tarnobrzeg, 1938
Existing KehilaLinks collection
The site’s existing 1938 map provides a detailed view of Tarnobrzeg and Dzików immediately before the Second World War. It is especially useful for locating roads, built-up areas, railway infrastructure, public facilities, and the expanding twentieth-century town in relation to the older core.
The underlying sheet can now be identified as the Polish Military Geographical Institute (Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny, WIG) 1:25,000 sheet P46 S33 I — Tarnobrzeg, dated 1938. Mapster provides high-resolution copies and related editions.
Site status: this image is already part of the Tarnobrzeg KehilaLinks collection. The external link below identifies the underlying WIG sheet and provides access to high-resolution versions.
More Historical Maps from Public Collections
The following maps add different layers to the story. Their holding institutions identify the relevant materials as public domain, but this page links to the institutional copies rather than reproducing third-party derivatives. They are especially useful when opened at full resolution.
1904 · Landscape & geology
Geological Atlas of Galicia — Tarnobrzeg sheet
Public-domain source
The Tarnobrzeg sheet (VI.2) of the Atlas geologiczny Galicyi, published in 1904 at 1:75,000, adds the physical landscape beneath the human geography: terrain, elevation, and geological structure across the Tarnobrzeg region.
View the digitized atlas at AGH
Not before 1915 · Habsburg military geography
Tarnobrzeg, Zone 3 Kol. XXV
POLONA: public domain
This Austro-Hungarian military-survey sheet places Tarnobrzeg within the road, railway, river, village, and terrain network of the late Habsburg borderland. It is useful for understanding the regional geography of the First World War era.
View at POLONA
1928 · The interwar county
Informacyjna mapa powiatu tarnobrzeskiego
POLONA: public domain
This county map shows Tarnobrzeg in its wider Second Polish Republic setting. For genealogists, that regional frame matters: family, commerce, schooling, markets, work, and migration routinely crossed the municipal boundary.
View at POLONA
Cemetery Maps & Plans
The Jewish Cemetery page preserves the site’s historical cemetery map, cemetery sketch and legend, surviving-stone photographs, and Dzików ohel material. Because provenance for several inherited cemetery images is still being refined, the full collection remains on the Cemetery page, where the cautions and historical context can accompany it.
From Parcels to People
Cadastral maps are not merely illustrations. When paired with their registers and later household records, they can help reconstruct who occupied, owned, leased, or moved through particular parts of Tarnobrzeg and Dzików.
| Record |
Research value |
Repository |
Tarnobrzeg parcel register, 1853
Archiwum Dzikowskie Tarnowskich, 29/639/0/2.39/459 |
Forty digitized scans recording parcels in Tarnobrzeg. Used with the cadastral map, the register can help identify owners and connect numbered properties with later records. |
Polish State Archives |
Dzików parcel register, 1853
Archiwum Dzikowskie Tarnowskich, 29/639/0/2.39/449 |
Sixty digitized scans for Dzików, useful for understanding the adjoining settlement and the physical relationship between Dzików and Tarnobrzeg. |
Polish State Archives |
Landholding sheets, 1880
Archiwum Dzikowskie Tarnowskich, 29/639/0/2.40/463 |
Later property information that can be compared with mid-century cadastral material and population records to trace ownership and landholding over time. |
Polish State Archives |
| Josephine and Franciscan cadastral records |
Earlier Habsburg-era land and property surveys provide evidence for ownership, taxation, and the physical development of the town before the 1853 map. |
Gesher Galicia cadastral indexes |
Reading cadastral evidence carefully: parcel numbers, building numbers, and civic house numbers are not necessarily the same numbering system. A map and its companion register should be matched before a number in a birth, residence, tax, school, or property record is assigned to a specific modern location.
Explore More Historical Maps
| Collection |
Why it is useful |
Access |
| Gesher Galicia Map Room |
The complete stitched 1853 Tarnobrzeg cadastral map, with numbered parcels and buildings, in an interactive research presentation. |
Tarnobrzeg 1853 |
| Mapster / Archiwalne Mapy Polski i Europy Środkowej |
Historic Polish, Austrian, and German topographic sheets, including the detailed 1938 WIG Tarnobrzeg map. |
1938 Tarnobrzeg sheet |
| POLONA — National Library of Poland |
Digitized maps and atlases, including the 1928 Tarnobrzeg county map and Habsburg-era military cartography. |
Search POLONA |
| Arcanum Maps / Mapire |
Georeferenced Habsburg military surveys that can be compared with modern geography, particularly useful for roads, rivers, settlements, and regional change. |
Open Arcanum Maps |
| OldMapsOnline |
Cross-institution discovery tool for digitized historical maps and map collections. |
Tarnobrzeg search |
| EastEuroTopo |
Historic topographic maps assembled for the study of Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe, including a Tarnobrzeg/Dzików index. |
Tarnobrzeg index |
| Wikimedia Commons |
A small Tarnobrzeg map collection with file-level source and reuse information, including the 1853 public-domain plan reproduced above. |
Maps of Tarnobrzeg |
| Library of Congress — Geography & Map Division |
Digitized regional maps of Galicia, Austria-Hungary, Poland, and Central Europe. |
Search maps |
| David Rumsey Map Collection |
Large digitized historical map collection with useful regional and comparative coverage. |
Search collection |
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