Starting point was the georeferencing of address numbers, the so called conscription numbers (ger: Konskriptionsnummern, valid during 1770 and 1860), depicted on the city map of the city building inspector and cartographer Anton Behsel (1781–1838). Behsel worked between 1822 and 1825 on his map which includes not only the city of Vienna but also the surrounding suburbs. This could be done on the basis of the georeferenced map tiles provided by the map services of the city of Vienna. The points were placed in QGIS on the original spot of the plan numbers. It resulted in 7,380 map points.
Behsel also published an address book in parallel to his plan material. As a next step, each of the points were collated with the conscription numbers mentioned in his book. Due to the rapid city growth, the conscription numbers shifted several times. Therefore, he organised an address concordance across three major time slices:
- newest (1822–1860)
- older (1795–1821)
- oldest (1770–1794)
By linking the points to the address book, it was possible to transfer Behsel’s address concordance. Finally, this dataset not only provides georeferenced addresses for a specific time period. This dataset can also be used for the identification and localization of earlier addresses in historical sources.
Screenshot showing the mapping of the Behselplan (background layer with building polygons from the Franziszeischen Kataster)
| column title | definition |
|---|---|
| id | unique identifier for the table |
| Adresse | joined values from column G (Gassen und Plätze/streets and squares) and column C (Hausnummern/addresses) |
| Hausnummer | address number (newest according to Behsel) |
| alte_1795_1821 | concordance with older address numbers |
| ältere_1770_1795 | concordance with oldest address numbers |
| Hausinhaber | column from Behsel's address book, seldom transcribed, only if an institution is mentioned |
| Gassen und Plätze | historical names for street and squares |
| Grundobrigkeit | public authority responsible for the land register |
| Latitude | geocoordinates for latitude, 7 decimal places long |
| Longitude | geocoordinates for longitude, 7 decimal places long |
| Planinhalt | city aeras shown in a specific map tile |
| Vorstadt_Stadviertel | suburb or district |
| reference | abbreviated citation of the source map |
| WienWiki_Pagetitle | original title of the page in Vienna History Wiki |
| WienWiki_Permalink | permalink to the entry in Vienna History Wiki |
- Anton Behsel, Stadtplan von Wien und seinen Vorstädten (1820-1825), WStLA, Pläne und Karten: Sammelbestand, P1: 295G.
- Anton Behsel, Verzeichniß aller in der kaiserl. königl. Haupt- und Residenzstadt Wien mit ihren Vorstädten befindlichen Häuser, Wien: Gedruckt und im Verlage Bey Carl Gerold, 1829. urn:nbn:at:AT-WBR-7003.