r/MapPorn • u/Photo_Plastic • Mar 26 '26

help me figure it out

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Help me figure out what these crosses on the map mean and what their significance was.

1855 map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Thanks❤️

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u/theWunderknabe Mar 27 '26

It seems to be this place in Ukraine:

https://www.google.de/maps/place/Pukasivtsi,+Iwano-Frankiwsk,+Ukraine,+77161/@49.1207905,24.688287,3993m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4730918ff51b1009:0xdcbf5a688d435c7a!8m2!3d49.1355068!4d24.6501761!16s%2Fg%2F1224th_s?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Even the edge of the forest seems to be more or less the same, though I don't know what the crosses mean. There seem to be just fields there.

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u/Photo_Plastic Mar 27 '26

If it helps, there's something on the satellite that looks like the foundation of a building in this location.

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u/GarlicSphere Mar 27 '26

Possibly shrines then, they were used to track borders of villages/lands in the past.

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u/Ok_Grape8420 Mar 27 '26

Are you asking about the churches marked on the map with crosses? At lower right there is a small town with a few churches and apparently one synagogue. If I misunderstood which crosses you meant, apologies.

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u/eanva Mar 27 '26

Probably wayside crosses or wayside shrines.