!!!Josephinische Landesaufnahme

Josephinian Cartographical Register (Josephinische Landesaufnahme), 
the first systematic cartographical documentation of all the Habsburg 
hereditary lands (except Tirol, Vorarlberg, Italy, and the Vorlande) 
on a scale of 1 : 28,800, carried out in 1764-1787 by 
engineering officers of the topographical unit of the court war 
council. The 3,589 hand-drawn coloured maps (later expanded to 4,096 
sections) are kept in the war archives. The maps were not yet based on 
a uniform surveying technique (triangulation). The Josephinian 
Cartographical Register was replaced by the second or  Franzian 
Cartographical Register.

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


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