Re: [Cz-L] maps redux & Herzl Platz

 Up and down orientation:
 The Prut flows to the left and discharges in the Byscaya..
    Lemberg is down somewhere near the Dardanelles.
     Siret is a naval base on the Baltic.
       We never get lost.
Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Berti Glaubach" <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>
To: "Jerome Schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "czernowitz-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] maps redux & Herzl Platz

>
> The purpose of this map was mainly to have the new Romanian names together
> with the old German ones for orientation in the town. Some standards had
> to
> be sacrificed to achieve the possibility to write both names. The most
> obvious is that the width of the streets was much increased and the space
> between them (houses and plots) were drawn as much smaller. The map has
> therefore no exact internal to the quadrants scale.
>
> As to the N/W part of the cemetery, it might very well have been added in
> proximity of 1920, or may be it was not yet fenced in.
>
> For all of us who lived in the lower (northern) part of the town the
> orientation of the north uphill was quite natural. I remember when I had
> to
> copy the plan of Cz. in grade 2 at the geography lesson, it did not make
> sense to me that the Prut was in the north - it went against all instincts
> - north on a map should be up and not down when you take the tram!
> Mimi of course did not have this problem, the girl from Schmiedgasse was
> already uphill at home and looked at the Volksgarten if not down at least
> at the same level.
> If you look intensely and concentrated at one streetname for several days
> the letters might turn around (at least something like that we learned in
> school might happen). Still I prefer to have the map inversed, not the
> text
> - but no problem anyone can do that at home at his free will. Just edit in
> Picassa or other.
> [Berti Glaubach]
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Jerome Schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> For those who feel more comfortable with the Pruth north of town, go to:
>> <http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz3/newmaps/20sCzCity-rev.jpg>
>> But be prepared for a headache!
>>
>> I tried moving the cemetery, but it wouldn't budge an inch.
>>
>> Best,
>> jerome
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