A cadastral community
or cadastral municipality,
is a
cadastral subdivision of
municipalities in the nations of
Austria,
[Cadastral Template for Austria, web-page]
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Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia,
the
Czech Republic,
Serbia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
the
Netherlands and the
Italian provinces of
South Tyrol,
Trentino,
Gorizia and
Trieste. A cadastral community records property ownership in a cadastre, which is a
register describing property ownership by boundary lines of the
real estate.
The common etymology in the
Central European successor states of the
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
comes from german: Katastralgemeinde (KG), plural: ''Katastralgemeinden'',
translated as
it, comune censuario or ''comune catastale'', sl, katastralna občina, hr, katastarska općina, sk, katastrálne územia and cs, katastrální území ("cadastral territories").
History
In 1764, at the behest of Empress
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position ''suo jure'' (in her own right). ...
, a complete
survey of the Habsburg lands was begun,
initiated by the general staff of the Imperial and Royal Army under Field Marshal
Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, who had become aware of the lack of reliable maps in the
Seven Years' War. Maria Theresa's son Emperor
Joseph II ordered the implication of a complete
urbarium for
property tax purposes in 1785. The present-day cadastre was completed after the
Napoleonic Wars from 1817 onwards under Emperor
Francis I of Austria (''Franziszeischer Kataster''). Since then, the
Austrian (i.e.
Cisleithania
Cisleithania, also ''Zisleithanien'' sl, Cislajtanija hu, Ciszlajtánia cs, Předlitavsko sk, Predlitavsko pl, Przedlitawia sh-Cyrl-Latn, Цислајтанија, Cislajtanija ro, Cisleithania uk, Цислейтанія, Tsysleitaniia it, Cislei ...
n) crown lands were subdivided in ''Katastralgemeinden''; surveying in the
Hungarian (Transleithanian) lands started in 1850. Municipalities as administrative subdivisions with certain rights of
self-governance
__NOTOC__
Self-governance, self-government, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority. It may refer to personal conduct or to any form of ...
were not established until after the
1848 revolutions
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe starting in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in Europe ...
.
Most of the nowadays ''Katastralgemeinden'' once had been independent communes and were incorporated on the occasion of a municipal territory reforms. They can be further divided into smaller villages and localities (''Ortschaften''). there are 7,847 Katastralgemeinden in Austria. For land registration, the unit identifier used in a ''Katastralgemeinde'' is "KG-Nr" (KG-Nummer, or number).
[
The Dutch system of ''kadastrale gemeenten'' was set up around 1830. When municipalities are merged, often the cadastral communes remain as they were, so one civil municipality can consist of more than one cadastral commune; but again, a cadastral commune can never be part of more than one civil municipality.
]
See also
* Districts of Vienna
The districts of Vienna (German: ''Wiener Gemeindebezirke'') are the 23 named city sections of Vienna, Austria, which are numbered for easy reference. They were created from 1850 onwards, when the city area was enlarged by the inclusion of surround ...
* Municipalities of South Tyrol
* Municipalities of Slovenia
* Municipalities of Croatia
* Municipality (Austria)
References
External links
Cadastral Template -- A Worldwide Comparison of Cadastral Systems
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Surveying
Subdivisions of Austria
Subdivisions of Croatia
Subdivisions of the Czech Republic
Subdivisions of the Netherlands
Subdivisions of Slovakia
Subdivisions of Slovenia
Subdivisions of Italy
South Tyrol
Trentino
Province of Gorizia
Province of Trieste
Land registration
Legacy of Austria-Hungary