Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch (Hessian State Archives Marburg, DE): Cadastral Documents co:op-READ-Convention Marburg Technology meets Scholarship, or how Handwritten Text Recognition will Revolutionize Access to Archival Collections. With a special focus on biographical data in archives Hessian State Archives Marburg Friedrichsplatz 15, D - 35037 Marburg 19-21 January 2016

1. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg
Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch
Cadastral Records
Contact: annegret.wenz-haubfleisch@stama.hessen.de

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Titles of the Holdings
- Kataster I-III, 18th – 20th cent.
- Karten (cadastral maps part of the collection of maps), 18th-20th cent.

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Marburg:
- Kataster I-III (Registers of real estates): ca. 2,000 mtr.
- Cadastral Maps: ca. 175,000 sheets/roles
Other archives:
- Probably less for lack of taxation reform in the 18th cent.
Amount of these Types of Documents

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Physical Appearance and Structure

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- Registers: Shelfmark, title, date
- Maps: shelfmark, title, date, geometer, scale etc.
- Access to Metadata: Archival Informationsystem (Arcinsys)
- Access to documents and maps: reading room
Metadata and Access

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Registers of real estate: partly on microfilm (Kataster I, 18th cent.)
Maps: small number digitized, not online
No transcriptions
Digitisation

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Layout of the Documents

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Biographical Data

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Cadastral Maps
P II Roth, 8711, Sheet D (1766/69)

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For the archives: Very important and complete documentation of private
(and public) properties throughout the whole country from the18th cent.
until the present day
For public users: Inestimable value for the reconstruction and
developments of family properties
For scholars: Records serve multiple questions – agrarian and urban
history of settlements; economic and social structure of individual villages
towns, cities; historical geography; long-term research e.g. on the
transition from early modern society to the age of industrialisation
Importance of the Holdings

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- Digitisation and handwritten text recognition
- Index of owners, parcels (and information related to the parcels)
- Processing and linking of data from different cadastral registers
(database)
- Visualisation of data in the corresponding maps
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