Legend Glossary for: Karte des westlichen Russlands
(Prepared with the kind assistance of Alice Resseguie z'l)
- Abbau - demolition
- Adlig - noble
- Alt - old
- Amtsverwaltung (A.V.) - administration office
- Arbeiterhäuser (Arb.Hsr.) - worker dwelling
- Ausgezeichneter Baum - particular tree
- Bahnhof (Bhf.) - railroad station
- Batterie - military battery, gun turret
- Bauerhof -peasant dwelling
- Bauerlich - peasant like
- Bedeutende Mauer- special wall
- Begräbnissplatz (Bgr. Pl.) - cemetery
- Begräbnissplatz f. Nichtchristen - non Christian cemetery (primarily Jewish, in a few cases Muslim)
- Berg - mountain
- Bezirks-Chaussee - county highway
- Bienenhof (Bn.H.) - bee hive
- Branntwein Brennerei (Branntw. Brenn.) - spirits, brandy distillery
- Brauerei (Brau.) - brewery
- Brücke - bridge
- Brunnen - well
- Chausseewärter - highway attendant
- Dampf - steam
- Damme u. Deiche - dam or dike
- Denkmal - memorial, monument
- Dorf - village from 20-100 dwellings w/out church or estate
- Dorf mit Gut - small village w/ church and an estate with fewer than 20 dwellings
- Eingeleisig - single track
- Eisenbahnen - railroads
- Eisenhammer - ice hammer
- Exerzir Platz - military exercise field
- Kahnfahre - ferry (small boat)
- Prahmfahre - barge ferry
- Feld-oder Waldweg - field or forest road
- Feldbefestigung - trench, war trench
- Fliegende Fähre - pontoon ferry
- Furt - ford
- Furt für reiter - ford for horsemen
- Furt für Fussganger - ford for pedestrians
- Fussweg - pedestrian path
- Förster - forester, game warden (waldwarter)
- Gebüsch - bushes, brush
- Gerodet oder abgebrannt - clear cut or burned forest
- Gitter - pickett fence
- Gouvernments Grenze - gubernia (provincial) borders
- Grenzen - borders
- Grosses Dorf - more than 100 dewllings w or w/o church, also a large estate or village w/20-100 dwellings w/church.
- Grosse Landstrasse - large road for trucks
- Gruben - mine shaft
- Glashütte - glassworks
- Gehoft - farmstead, shed, barn
- Gouverment u. Kreis-Stadt - gubnernia capitol and county seat
- Gut - estate
- Haltestelle - busstop, station
- Hecken - hedge
- Hof - acreage, field
- Hohenzahlen - altitude
- Hugelig - hilly
- Industrie-oder strassenbahn - light rail or streetcar
- Kalköfen (K.O.) - ceramic kiln
- Kapelle - chapel, small church
- Kaserne - military barracks
- Kirche - church
- Kirchlich - of the church
- Kirchhof (Khf.)- cemetery
- Kleines Dorf - village w/ five dewllings near train station or equipment yard
- Kolonie - colony
- Koniglich - royal
- Kordon, Grenzposten Krug (Kr.) - border tavern
- Kreis-Grenze - county border
- Kreisstadt - county seat
- Kreuzungsstelle - intersection
- Kreuz. Heiligenbild - cross in honor of a Saint
- Landes Grenze - country border
- Landstadt u. Flecken - small town or market town (shtetl)
- Magazin - weapon storage
- Marktflecken - market town (shtetl)
- Meer - ocean, sea
- Mühle - mill
- Munitionsdepot - ammunition storage
- Nass - wet
- Ortshaften - places
- Ortsverbindungsweg mit seitengraben - road connecting small villages with ditch
- Ortsverbindungsweg ohne Seitengraben - road connecting small villages w/out ditch
- Passirbar - passable, walkable
- Pfarrei - pastor
- Pulver - gunpowder
- Redoute - stronghold
- Ruine - ruin
- Schacht (Sch.) - tunnel, trench
- Schäferei - sheep shearing
- Schleuse - lock (canal)
- Schilf - reeds
- Schneidemühle - sawmill
- Schuppen - shelter, shed
- See - lake
- Staats-Chaussee - interstate highway
- Steinbruch - quarry
- Sumpfig - swampy
- Theerofen (T.O.) - tar oven
- Torfstich - peat cuttings
- Viehhof - stockyard
- Vorwerk - farmstead, barn
- Vorstadt - suburb
- Wald - forest
- Warter - guard
- Waldwärter - forest guard, forest warden or police
- Weingarten - vineyard
- Wiesenboden - meadow
- Winterweg - winter path
- Wege - roads
- Zaüne - fence
- Ziegelei (Zgl.) - brick kiln
- Ziffern für Wohnhauserzahlen - numbers for dwellings
- Zollamt - custom house
- Zweigeleisig - two spur railroad
- Zwischendepot (Zw.Dep.) - between depots
- Zwischenwerk (Zw.Wk.) - buildings between two countries
