You are bidding here on 1 BZ map:   please select in category 1  the 0x  1x  2x ... and in category 2 please the x1  x2 x3 etc. , that always gives the photo with the map you are looking for, e.g. 33, all the 30s numbers shown, you can see your No. 33 in the photo

in the following list I try to describe the states of preservation of the maps I offer: poor but complete, rubbed, stained, torn, all legible, tears through the folds, 1 quarter (2 segments) already completely loose, printed by Westermann, 1:250000, card, not linen-reinforced, would otherwise certainly still be good, without Reich motorways (in case of doubt the photo applies )

Now some information for the interested public; for support and questions please email

BZ map sheets and special maps:                                                                 here the information on the maps offered  

73.      Laibach

A Germany’ (1500T)                                                                            1 before 38 all folds defective    2 Sudetenland  glued

B Greater Berlin (42.5T)                                                                             folds partly defective

C 100 Kilometres around Berlin’’’                                                                      1 defective     2 folds defective      3 ok

D Map Book Waters of the Mark (80T ..280T), and map version Waters of the Mark (75T..250T)

E Rhenish-Westphalian Industrial Region (75T), first version of E

E East Prussia and Danzig’ (400T)                                                                   ok, foxed 

F Harz and Kyffhäuser’ (100T)                                                                     1 folds defective    2 slightly defective

G Thuringian Forest’ (110T, 150T)                                                                    ok, painted on the outside

H Ore Mountains and Bohemian Spas (135T)

J Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland (60T..125T)

K Giant Mountains, Jizera Mountains, Glatz Uplands (100T, 150T)

L 100 Kilometres around Hamburg

M Upper Bavaria and North Tyrol, Western Part (125T)

N Upper Bavaria and North Tyrol, Eastern Part

Ö The German Ostmark*, Austria’ (600T)                                                      some folds defective 

BZ Atlas (600T)

1000 Ways around Berlin (25T…150T, 450T)

Excursions by Car, 18 sheets/excursions in a cover, 32.5cm*25cm, 

BZ Motoring Guide to Northern and Central Germany, in a slipcase of 4 volumes with the starting point: spring 1930

 1. Berlin (up to p. 184. )

 2. Magdeburg and Halle (running to 287)

 3. Leipzig and Dresden (r.423)

 4. „Large Cities“ excursion areas (r.586), plus a folded overview map

with a continuation named as Roman 2 Southern Germany*, Rom 3 Western Germany*, Rom 4 Eastern Germany* (printing uncertain!)

Berlin in Your Pocket*

Ullstein ABC Timetable*

These are the editions distinguishable by name and number; in terms of date and content there are editions distinguishable by the progress of construction of roads, for example, and politically by the course of borders.

Map extent: with exceptions 132.5 km wide, 92.5 km high

Presentation: folding maps of card, mostly/at least 8 panels (4*2), often far more; linen-reinforced versions have a thick blue square around the number, first editions had no numbers yet, 21.5cm*14.5cm folded, and books, map sheets 53cm*37cm, exceptions 1,3,5,9,12,62,74, later 57,57,3-4,5-14, A-Ö up to 6*4 equals 24 panels, on the reverse as a rule several town plans of towns in the region with the best through routes, BZ map ..of Germany, of Czechoslovakia, of Austria, of Switzerland, of Italy?; entry regulations for Italy, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France; small dictionaries: Lithuanian; place names in part and at times bilingual: German and Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, French      

Price: from 0.90 mark to 3.80 mark for the maps and atlases, slipcase?

Period of publication: commissioned in 1924, at the end of 1924 still only drafts, heyday in the thirties, probably fell victim to the war economy around 1940

Scale: unless stated otherwise (e.g. 80T=1:80000) always 1 : 250 000 ; smaller unnamed overview and detail maps are in part at other scales too

Patents/registered designs: DRGM 1108510

Editorial management: Ludwig Kappeller, Berlin

Publisher / imprint: BZ am Mittag

Carl Flemming und C.T. Witkott A.G. Glogau-Berlin

Printing was done in at least 4 houses. 

1.Ullsteinhaus Berlin, like 3.?

Sources: private; there is nothing more to be had from the publisher, the BZ's publishing house was subjected to Anglo-American town planning in February 1945 , today's BZ am Mittag has its daily business to attend to and does not concern itself in a museum or archival way with its publishing history. 

on BZ maps in general: a product of the Berlin newspaper BZ am Mittag, distributed in the era when motor traffic was beginning in Germany as a series of road maps , see also the Shell map, Esso map, BV map, Continental map etc.; all the well-known fuel and in part motor-vehicle suppliers began partly before the First World War and increasingly afterwards to get their road maps to the "man in the street". Compared with others the BZ maps are striking for their scale (1:250000 and in part even larger inset and main maps on special maps), their broad coverage of the then mostly German-speaking Central Europe, before the .... from the eastern territories including Bohemia and southern Slavia; there exists a 74s series which covers an enormous area from Schleswig via the Memel Territory, Upper Silesia,  Vienna, Trieste, Geneva, Strasbourg/Rhine, through their emphasis on the railway lines and the fairly pictorial representation of the built-up areas and and and .... for me unique, since almost only the official maps (Reich maps and their direct impressions) and Ravenstein come close; at first the BZ used the cartography of Flemming in Glogau/Silesia, this cartographic department then went to Westermann/Braunschweig, at least 2 other printing houses were also called upon, the BZ map as a product has existed since 1924 and up to the beginning of the war (certainly no more paper quota); the direct hit on the publishing house in Berlin in February 45 ended everything, today's BZ does not concern itself in an archival way with its map history, Westermann has only a few archive holdings... for historians, collectors and local-history enthusiasts, railway enthusiasts, classic-car enthusiasts, the different maps of the ever-expanding series are each worth a lecture in themselves.........no crime novel comes close  

the result is a map of about 4.77 m x 4.81 m, in which every municipality independent at the time is shown in its coarsest structure, not every district, but every village, in colour, in parts of Bohemia bilingually, you can wander through "Germany" in your socks for hours........whether one ever has all the Reich maps at 1:100,000 in colour and then never including Austria, to top that as well, I doubt   

additional information:

I have originals and the raw scans (6800x9100 pixels, also as a reduced 3.99MB file,  A1 and printed out ) of No. 3 15 16 17 23 37 50 60 70 74 Husum Marienwerder Allenstein Lyck Bromberg Kreuzburg Brünn Linz Lugano Trieste ,  no original of  No. 15 Marienwerder 23 Bromberg and, without a number, Lingen (at that time in the 8s series without a number and later partly replaced by the portrait-format No. 9 Emden , also the 1st version(8s) of Trier(Metz), 1st version(8s) of Koblenz(Coblenz)... Please do get in touch about this !!!, purchase or exchange welcome, I have had over 5000 things on offer in ebay before now  .....BZ Lingen, and then the left-hand part of it, would be the only new ground for me, since I do have enormous raw scans of originals of Nos. 15 and 23.

Shipping costs depend on volume and weight. Please ask for the total costs via ebay or directly. 

Shipping from EUR 1; from a goods value of EUR 25 I ship insured with Hermes for EUR 3.90.