Buchbesprechungen: Atlas der Republik Österreich

Summary

This is an academic review of the Atlas of the Republic of Austria, edited by the Commission for Spatial Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the general direction of Hans Bobek, with Erik Arnberger as cartographic editor, published by the Freytag-Berndt & Artaria cartographic institute in Vienna in 1961. The review notes that the atlas is planned for six installments with approximately 120 map sheets, organized into twelve thematic groups covering Austria's location, topography, climate, hydrology, soils, vegetation, settlement, population, economy, transport, administration, culture, and socio-economic spatial structure. The first installment of 20 sheets employs various cartographic methods including dot maps, choropleth maps, and cartodiagrams with high accuracy. The review particularly praises the detailed representation of Vienna's building and housing structure (1:50000 and 1:25000), the tourism cartodiagram (using bar heights for visitor numbers and widths for average nights stayed), and the community-level choropleth map of the 1959 National Council election results. It also recommends including the administrative boundaries map (XI/1) as an overlay to facilitate comparison with other sheets.