Town Views and Plans: Kaunas
Kaunas (Kovno/Kowno): founded: 1030? first reference: 1361, in a Teutonic Knights manuascript
1600 Tadas Makovskis: Kaunas
Panoramic View. From www.datos.kvb.lt
1774 Kaunas city plan.
1860 G. Rober in Raizinys: "Pazaislis
Church." From www.datos.kvb.lt
1863 E. Roevens, in Le Monde:" Kaunas
view." From www.datos.kvb.lt
1875 Napoleon Orda: "Kaunas City Hall
Sq." From www.datos.kvb.lt
1875 Napoleon Orda: "Old City from
Aleksotas Hill." From www.datos.kvb.lt
1893 J. Kamarauskas: "Kaunas Castle in
the 14th-15th Cent." From www.datos.kvb.lt
1840 Barthelemy Lauvergne (painter):
"Vue de Kovno." Lithograph, 9.8 x 16.2
inches. From www.alexandremaps.com
19th Cent. "Kaunas - Old City from the
Northeast." From www.datos.kvb.lt
19th Cent., J. Leczenska: "Pazaislis Church
and Camaldolese Monastery." From
www.datos.kvb.lt
Great article on the history of town views, from Loeb-Larocque
19th Cent. Russian plan of "Kovna,"
showing ring of fortresses
1889 "WIDOK OGOLNY KOWNA" (View of
Kaunas), Krakau, page 15 of "Album
Souvenirs of Adam Mickiewicz," published
by H. Altenberg. From www.antykwariat.biz
1839 "Widok ruin zanku w Kownie" (View
of the runis of Kaunas Castle). From "Friend
of the People, # 23, July 12, 1839. From
www.antykwariat.biz
1861 Julius Ceglinski "ZAMEK W KOWNIE"
(Kaunas Castle) From "Weekly Ilustrowny."
From www.antykwariat.biz
1873 Roman Szwojnickiego (engraver) - Michael Klyuchevskii
(artist): "KOWNO." From"The Ear," # 427 of September 4,
1873. From www.antykwariat.biz
1888 Michael Elwiro
Andriolli: " Zamek w Kawnie"
( Castle in Kaunas), 141 x
170 mm. From "Weekly
Illustrated" # 294 of Aug. 18,
1888.  From www.antykwariat.biz
1872 Michael Elwiro
Andriolli (artist) -
Jodeph Sosinski
(engraver): " Gmach
zwany swiatynia
Perkuna, w Kownie"
(Building Called The
Temple of Perkunas, in
Kaunas), 210 x 163
mm. Perkunas was the
pagan Lithuanian
Thunder God. From
"Weekly Illustrated" #
221 of March 23, 1872.
From www.antykwariat.biz
1864 "WIDOK
WEWNETRZNY
MOSTU ZELAZN-
EGO NA NIEMNIE
POD KOWNEM"
(Interior View of
Iron Bridge over
the Nieman,
Kaunas), 119
x 163 mm,
from "Weekly
Illustrated" # 2
55. From
www.antykwariat.biz
19th Cent. Napoleon Orda:  "Kowno"
(Kaunas Castle). From
www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Orda/
19th cent. (or earlier?) "Plan, Kovno,"
with hand-painted Cyrillic notation
1850 Antoni Oleszczyński: "Kaunas, today
the capital of Samogitia," 21.8 x 27 cm.  
From www.Polana.pl
1776 (Anon.): "Mappa Kościoła
Klasztoru folwarku y Placow do
niego należących Xieży
Bernardynów Kowieńskich
nazwa współczesna" (Map of the
Church of St. Georege and of the
Bernardine Monastery, Kaunas).
From Jagiellonian Digital Library via
www.mapywig.org
1840 Barthélemy Lauvergne (artist):
"Moulin de la vallée de Mickiewicz à
Kowno," Paris, 26.5 x 42 cm. From
www.oldmaps.eu/senizemelapiai.lt
1904 "Планъ губернскаго города Ковны,
планъ составленъ под руководствомъ
Члена Ковенской городской управы М.А.
Легецкаго. - Ковна : изд. Ковенск.
губерн. стат. комитет, 1904."  (Plan of the
guberniya city of Kovno / drawn up under
the direction of Kaunas city council MA
Legetskago. - Kaunas: Vol. Kovno. province.
stat. Committee 1904.) From The Wroblewski
Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences:
elibrary.mab.lt/
1916 "Plan von Kowno und
Umgebung [Surroundings]," at
1:20 000. From www. maps4U.lt  
via mapywig.org
1923 "Kauno Planas," Kaunas, from
"Sieninis kasdieninis nuplesiamas
kalendorius." From www.mapywig.org
1927 "Kowno" street plan
1938 "KOWNO," Warsaw. From
http://www.mapywig.org/  
1941 "STADTPLAN VON KOWNO
(KAUNAS)" Based on "Kauno miesto
Planas," published by Spaudos Fondas,
and intelligence from der Luftwaffe
Generalstab. From www.mapywig.org
1935 [dated] Spaudos Fondo (publisher):
"KAUNAS." From National Library of Poland, via
www.mapywig.org
c. 1935 Jonas J. Burba (verifying
artist/designer) - A. Ptašeko (publisher):
"KAUNO MIESTO PLANAS." From National
Library of Poland, via www.mapywig.org
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1929 [dated] Jonas Salėnėkas (compiler/
Kaunas city surveyor) -  Cezaris Petrauskas
(publisher): "KAUNO MIESTO PLANAS."
From Martynas Mažvydas National Library of
Lithuania: https://www.epaveldas.lt/
NEW March 30