Katastralgemeinden in Austria administrative units are called within a municipality, which are led in the land register as separate units. The word comes from land register.

There is the term since the establishment of the land registers in Austria in the year 1770. Per Katastralgemeinde a land register (general ledger) was put on. At the same time to Austria also the house numbers were introduced.

A municipality can consist of one or more Katastralgemeinden. In many cases there was municipalities independent into the 1970er years, which were folded up in the course of various municipality reforms in the individual Lands of the Federal Republic often also under political criteria.

In many Katastralgemeinden, which are today still own places, there are own local chiefs, who are ordered by the local council and an extended arm of the mayor in the respective Katastralgemeinde to explain to be supposed.

A still smaller settlement, which can have also its own name, otherwise however administratively belonged to a Katastralgemeinde, is designated in Austria than locality. Among them still of locality components one speaks, i.e. one separates lying settlements within a locality. These are differentiated still according to occupied and vacant locality components. To the latters Almen and hunt huts predominantly belong. The settlement terms gang or Weiler are not officially used in Austria, even if they occur in road designations.

In addition, there is older Katastralgemeinden, where the place name is only more administratively used. The place names are not used however publicly no more or than local part name. Likewise there are Katastralgemeinden, which are not at all inhabited and are likewise only administratively relevant particularly at surface-moderately large municipalities.

How independently a Katastralgemeinde kept, one can recognize often by the Ortstafel. Thus either only the place name stands or the additive municipality XY or the municipality name with the reference local part to it.

At the 1. 2003 gave it in Austria to 7,853 Katastralgemeinden, and at the 1. 2004 still 7.846.

In Germany the locality (in the legal sense) and/or the Gemarkung (in the land register-legal sense) is comparable terms for Katastralgemeinde.

Related links

• Statistic yearbook 2005, chapter 01 geographical and meteorological overviews, administrative organizations

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