!!!Franzisceische Landesaufnahme

Franzian Cartographical Register, the second cartographical register 
of the patrimonial lands of the Habsburg family from 1806-1869, named 
after the Emperor Franz I; it replaced the  Josephinian Cartographical 
Register; the Franzian Cartographical Register was drawn up by the 
engineer officers of the Topographical (later 
Topographical-Lithographical) Institute, also known as the Imperial  
Military Geography, Institute of (Militaergeographisches Institut) 
after 1839. The technique used to survey the lands was uniform 
triangulation. The register is comprised of 2,628 maps drawn to the 
scale of 1 : 28,800, which were used as the basis for the 
cartographical register of the Austrian Monarchy at a scale of 1 : 
144,000. The Franzian Cartographical Register was replaced by the 
third register, the  Francisco-Josephinian Cartographical Register.

!Literature
G. Fasching and F. Wawrik, Landesaufnahme und 
Militaerkarten, in: Austria picta, 1989.


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