The Austrian land cadastre: from the earliest beginnings to the modern land information system

• Published in: Geodetski vestnik 2014-09, Vol.58 (3), p.482-516
• Main Authors: Lisec, Anka, Navratil, Gerhard
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Austria; cadastral map; cadastre of boundaries; Franciscan cadastre; land cadastre; land information system; land surveying; land tax cadastre
• ISSN: 0351-0271; 1581-1328
• DOI: 10.15292/geodetski-vestnik.2014.03.482-516

The objective of this discussion is the Austrian land cadastre, which forms the basis of the Austrian land information system, together with the land registry. From a data structure perspective, the Austrian land cadastre is a traditional parcel-oriented system and includes a geometric description of land plots linked to other records describing the nature of the land plots. The changeable institutional (legal) framework was shaped the continuous development of the Austrian land cadastre since the first systematic land survey and cadastral mapping at the beginning of the 19thcentury. With the progress of information technology in recent decades, it has been developed into a contemporary land information system, which (together with the land registry) provides up-to-date land information. It has to be emphasized that the current land cadastre still contains some data from its very beginning and, for this reason, the historical development of this evidence, including data sources, is of great importance for users of these data. The first part of the article provides an introduction to the historical development of the Austrian land cadastre, followed by the presentation of contents and procedures of the current land cadastre.