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The
“Land Register of Francis I” (1817 – 1861) is a comprehensive
cartographical and statistical documentation of the natural,
economic and social circumstances surrounding the Habsburg monarchy in
the first half of the 19th century. The measurement, soil
assessment and earning power of all crown lands and the arrangement in
tax districts and 30,556 land registry districts was a great
technical and cultural-political achievement at a time
after the Napoleonic Wars in which the Austrian monarchy had reached a
new low.
Since
January of 2008 the Universities of Klagenfurt and Innsbruck have been
working on a research project (funded with the support of the Austrian
Scientific Fund – FWF) whose aim is to scientifically develop and
examine the maps and records of the states of Carinthia and Bukovina.
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Editions
of the so-called “Land Register of Francis I” are being worked upon
for both Carinthia and Bukovina. This project is made possible in
cooperation with the Commission for the History of the Habsburg
monarchy from the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Historical
Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Carinthian State
Archives, the National Archives in Ljubljana, the Provincial
Archives in Suceava and Gorizia, the appropriate departments of the
Carinthian State Government and the Land Registry Archives in the
Federal Office for Calibration and Measurement in Vienna. This
project is about pilot studies that should test whether it is
manageable to arrange the substantial amount of material so that the
general research is open to a subject-specific analysis. |
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