The Lublin 1875 Map

The map used here is only a temporary one until I can obtain a better copy of the original. As this copy came out of a book some of the writing is difficult to make out, as well as being in Polish of course! However, the main diffculty lies with making out the street names and some of the noted building numbers, but lower down this page there are indexes you can refer to to make this part easier.

This map was created on the very brink of Lublin's change from a regional town that just happened to be the central city of the region, to the largest urban centre to the east of the Vistula river. Up until about this time Zamosc, for example, rivalled it in size but while Zamosc continued to be just a name found in history books, Lublin reached out and made itself the place to be in Eastern Poland.

With the new railway being located some distance to the south, some way from the centre in the typical Russian fashion and with the station located in the small village of Piaski, this became a logical direction for the city to grow as it created its new industrial base. With the establishment of the Saski park just beyond the current city borders in the 1830's confirmed the western suburbs as the fashionable part of the city to live in. The predominantly Jewish sector on the northern and eastern sides continued to thrive, expanding up onto the dry uplands to the north rather to over the still poorly drained sometime flood plain of the conjunction of the Bystrzyca, Czechowka & Czerniowka rivers to the east.

Interestingly enough, as was common throughout this period, the nearby market village of Kalinowszczyzna to the east was included on the city map and yet the equally important, and predominantly Jewish village of Wieniawa on the northwestern edge is barely graced with a mention.

Unless you are looking for something specific it is worth saving this page and printing it out so that you can easily refer to it as you find your way around the map. It is not possible to print the map out in any appreciable size. The first map to load will be the old town and part of Krakowskie Przedmiescie, which is almost the centre of the map below.