Rare Old Topographical Map of Germany, Poland & Switzerland by Bartholomew, 1955: Berlin, Warsaw, Zurich, Alps, Rhine
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Originally titled “Germany, Poland and Switzerland” (Plate 62, Volume III), this 1955 chart from The Times Atlas of the World captures Central Europe at a decisive mid-century juncture. John Bartholomew’s hand is evident in the union of political clarity and physical drama: borders are crisply drawn while shaded relief and gentle gradient tints lift the Alps, Sudetes, and Black Forest from the page. Provinces and regions are labeled with scholarly precision, from Bavaria and Saxony to Silesia and Masovia, and the road network is color-keyed to anchor the great cities—Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Warsaw, Kraków, Zurich, Geneva—within their landscapes. Rivers and lakes are traced with hydrological nuance, and maritime gradients fringe the North and Baltic seas, inviting both study and quiet admiration.
John Bartholomew, working through the Geographical Institute in Edinburgh, perfected a cartographic language that married elegance to exactitude. Here his relief shading, spot heights, and hypsometric tints articulate altitude as though illuminated by a slant of afternoon sun, while his typography balances density with legibility. The graticule is clean and navigationally frank, its reference to the Greenwich Prime Meridian grounding every coordinate. Distinctive color coding separates political boundaries from the arterial web of roads, a Bartholomew hallmark that serves scholars, students, and travelers alike. In the Mid-Century Edition, he distilled a complex continent into an intelligible whole—scientific in method, lucid in design, and imbued with a quiet, mid-century poise.
Germany unfolds as a study in contrasts—industrial heartlands, riverine corridors, and alpine ramparts—mapped with the finesse that made Bartholomew indispensable. The Rhine, Elbe, and Danube headwaters orient Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich, while the Bavarian Alps, Harz, Thuringian Forest, and Ore Mountains rise in sculpted relief. Postwar realities are legible without polemic: the delineation between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic is exact, and Berlin’s special status is unmistakably marked. Länder names and urban hierarchies—Cologne, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dresden—are set against a calibrated road network that threads the Ruhr to Bavaria and Saxony, showing how terrain channels movement. Along the North Sea, bathymetric tints and the Elbe estuary suggest mercantile pathways that have shaped Germany for centuries.
To the east, Poland’s broad plains and river-lattice receive an equally sensitive treatment. The Vistula cuts a commanding axis from Kraków through Warsaw to the Gulf of Gdańsk, while the Oder links Wrocław and Szczecin, underscoring the importance of waterways in settlement and trade. Bartholomew’s relief shading clarifies the arc of the Sudetes and the high shoulders of the Tatras and Beskids, and the map’s provincial labeling places Silesia, Greater Poland, Pomerania, and Masovia in immediate context. Along the Baltic, gradient blues step out into the Gulf of Gdańsk, while inland the Masurian lake country is delicately stippled. Clear voivodeship boundaries and carefully ranked city symbols—Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk—convey a nation balancing historic regions with modern administration amid newly settled frontiers.
Switzerland provides a mountainous counterpoint, rendered with the luminous subtlety that Bartholomew reserved for high relief. The Alps surge in tonal bands from the Bernese Oberland to the Grisons, while the Jura scarp shadows the French frontier. Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, and Lucerne are set beside the lucid waters of Lakes Geneva and Lucerne, with Lake Zurich and the Rhine’s headwaters precisely fixed by the graticule. Cantonal boundaries are etched with dignified restraint, reflecting a federal mosaic shaped by valleys, passes, and watersheds. North–south corridors and transalpine routes are suggested in the road network, emphasizing Switzerland’s role as a hinge of continental exchange. Throughout, the Greenwich-referenced coordinates and mid-century design clarity transform complex relief and borders into an enduring, navigable portrait of Central Europe.
Cities and towns on this map
- Berlin (Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Munich (Germany)
- Cologne (Germany)
- Frankfurt (Germany)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Düsseldorf (Germany)
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Dresden (Germany)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Poznań (Poland)
- Gdańsk (Poland)
- Szczecin (Poland)
- Zurich (Switzerland)
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- Basel (Switzerland)
- Bern (Switzerland)
- Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Lucerne (Switzerland)
Notable Features & Landmarks
- Road networks clearly depicted with different color codes
- Topographical features: shaded relief showcases mountains and valleys
- Water bodies: rivers and lakes illustrated with gradients indicating depth
- Political boundaries: clearly marked borders between Germany, Poland, and Switzerland
- Territorial labels: provinces and regions labeled for clarity
- Longitude and latitude lines indicating geographic coordinates for navigation
- Prime Meridian reference set at Greenwich
Historical and design context
- Map title: Germany, Poland and Switzerland, Plate 62, V. III
- Creation date: 1955
- Mapmaker/publisher: John Bartholomew; Geographical Institute, Edinburgh
- Part of The Times Atlas of the World, Mid-Century Edition
- Relief shading, spot heights, and gradient tints to represent elevation and maritime depths
- Emphasis on clarity and detail, serving academic and general audiences
- Combines political boundaries with physical geography; useful for navigation and study
- Reflects mid-20th-century geopolitical changes in Europe
- Covers Germany, Poland, and Switzerland with provincial boundaries and key geographical features
Please double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.
This map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 70in (180cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
The fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.
If you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the best old maps to see if something else catches your eye.
Please contact me to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.
This would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.
This map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
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Originally titled “Germany, Poland and Switzerland” (Plate 62, Volume III), this 1955 chart from The Times Atlas of the World captures Central Europe at a decisive mid-century juncture. John Bartholomew’s hand is evident in the union of political clarity and physical drama: borders are crisply drawn while shaded relief and gentle gradient tints lift the Alps, Sudetes, and Black Forest from the page. Provinces and regions are labeled with scholarly precision, from Bavaria and Saxony to Silesia and Masovia, and the road network is color-keyed to anchor the great cities—Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Warsaw, Kraków, Zurich, Geneva—within their landscapes. Rivers and lakes are traced with hydrological nuance, and maritime gradients fringe the North and Baltic seas, inviting both study and quiet admiration.
John Bartholomew, working through the Geographical Institute in Edinburgh, perfected a cartographic language that married elegance to exactitude. Here his relief shading, spot heights, and hypsometric tints articulate altitude as though illuminated by a slant of afternoon sun, while his typography balances density with legibility. The graticule is clean and navigationally frank, its reference to the Greenwich Prime Meridian grounding every coordinate. Distinctive color coding separates political boundaries from the arterial web of roads, a Bartholomew hallmark that serves scholars, students, and travelers alike. In the Mid-Century Edition, he distilled a complex continent into an intelligible whole—scientific in method, lucid in design, and imbued with a quiet, mid-century poise.
Germany unfolds as a study in contrasts—industrial heartlands, riverine corridors, and alpine ramparts—mapped with the finesse that made Bartholomew indispensable. The Rhine, Elbe, and Danube headwaters orient Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich, while the Bavarian Alps, Harz, Thuringian Forest, and Ore Mountains rise in sculpted relief. Postwar realities are legible without polemic: the delineation between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic is exact, and Berlin’s special status is unmistakably marked. Länder names and urban hierarchies—Cologne, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dresden—are set against a calibrated road network that threads the Ruhr to Bavaria and Saxony, showing how terrain channels movement. Along the North Sea, bathymetric tints and the Elbe estuary suggest mercantile pathways that have shaped Germany for centuries.
To the east, Poland’s broad plains and river-lattice receive an equally sensitive treatment. The Vistula cuts a commanding axis from Kraków through Warsaw to the Gulf of Gdańsk, while the Oder links Wrocław and Szczecin, underscoring the importance of waterways in settlement and trade. Bartholomew’s relief shading clarifies the arc of the Sudetes and the high shoulders of the Tatras and Beskids, and the map’s provincial labeling places Silesia, Greater Poland, Pomerania, and Masovia in immediate context. Along the Baltic, gradient blues step out into the Gulf of Gdańsk, while inland the Masurian lake country is delicately stippled. Clear voivodeship boundaries and carefully ranked city symbols—Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk—convey a nation balancing historic regions with modern administration amid newly settled frontiers.
Switzerland provides a mountainous counterpoint, rendered with the luminous subtlety that Bartholomew reserved for high relief. The Alps surge in tonal bands from the Bernese Oberland to the Grisons, while the Jura scarp shadows the French frontier. Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, and Lucerne are set beside the lucid waters of Lakes Geneva and Lucerne, with Lake Zurich and the Rhine’s headwaters precisely fixed by the graticule. Cantonal boundaries are etched with dignified restraint, reflecting a federal mosaic shaped by valleys, passes, and watersheds. North–south corridors and transalpine routes are suggested in the road network, emphasizing Switzerland’s role as a hinge of continental exchange. Throughout, the Greenwich-referenced coordinates and mid-century design clarity transform complex relief and borders into an enduring, navigable portrait of Central Europe.
Cities and towns on this map
- Berlin (Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Munich (Germany)
- Cologne (Germany)
- Frankfurt (Germany)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Düsseldorf (Germany)
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Dresden (Germany)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Poznań (Poland)
- Gdańsk (Poland)
- Szczecin (Poland)
- Zurich (Switzerland)
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- Basel (Switzerland)
- Bern (Switzerland)
- Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Lucerne (Switzerland)
Notable Features & Landmarks
- Road networks clearly depicted with different color codes
- Topographical features: shaded relief showcases mountains and valleys
- Water bodies: rivers and lakes illustrated with gradients indicating depth
- Political boundaries: clearly marked borders between Germany, Poland, and Switzerland
- Territorial labels: provinces and regions labeled for clarity
- Longitude and latitude lines indicating geographic coordinates for navigation
- Prime Meridian reference set at Greenwich
Historical and design context
- Map title: Germany, Poland and Switzerland, Plate 62, V. III
- Creation date: 1955
- Mapmaker/publisher: John Bartholomew; Geographical Institute, Edinburgh
- Part of The Times Atlas of the World, Mid-Century Edition
- Relief shading, spot heights, and gradient tints to represent elevation and maritime depths
- Emphasis on clarity and detail, serving academic and general audiences
- Combines political boundaries with physical geography; useful for navigation and study
- Reflects mid-20th-century geopolitical changes in Europe
- Covers Germany, Poland, and Switzerland with provincial boundaries and key geographical features
Please double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.
This map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 70in (180cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
The fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.
If you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the best old maps to see if something else catches your eye.
Please contact me to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.
This would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.
This map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.

