Cadastral community

The common etymology in the Central European successor states of the Habsburg monarchy comes from German: Katastralgemeinde (KG; literally "cadastral municipality" or "cadastral community"), plural: Katastralgemeinden,[5][11] translated as Italian: comune censuario or comune catastale, Slovene: katastralna občina, Croatian: katastarska općina.

In 1764, at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa, a complete survey of the Habsburg lands was begun,[14] 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).

Most of the nowadays Katastralgemeinden once had been independent communes and were incorporated on the occasion of a municipal territory reforms.