Church Atlas | Cologne | Vintage Map

The map "Provincia Ecclesiastica di Colonia nella Prussia" / "Kirchenprovinz Köln in Preußen" shows the ecclesiastical province of Cologne within the Prussian Rhine Province and Westphalia. The dioceses of Münster (orange, in the north with the exclave of Vechta/Oldenburg), Paderborn (turquoise, extending far to the east into the Harz region), Cologne itself (pink, in the center with the namesake city), and Trier (yellow, in the southwest with its seat in Trier) are color-coded. Surrounding territories such as Hanover, Holstein, Mecklenburg, the Duchy of Nassau, the Kingdom of Saxony, and the Duchies of Speyer and Saxony are uncolored but named, placing the ecclesiastical province in a North German context. Numerous cities such as Düsseldorf, Aachen, Koblenz, Essen, Dortmund, and Bielefeld are marked, as are rivers like the Rhine and Moselle. The map illustrates the diocesan structure of the Rhineland and Westphalia within the Kingdom of Prussia with precise border demarcation and dense place-name labeling.

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