Other version: for an English version of this essay, see Ingrid Baumgärtner (2022), Chapter 3. Amazons in medieval world maps, in: Mapping narrations - narrating maps. Concepts of the world in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (= Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; 34), edited by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, and Phillip Landgrebe, Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, 2022, pp. 73-93 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516016-003)