The creation of a stable cadastre took place throughout the Austrian Empire and remains a fundamental source for historical research. Maps on a more detailed scale were also created for Prague. Changes were also recorded in the original maps; the so-called imperial prints show the original state.

Stable cadastre maps 1 : 2,880 (1 : 1,440)

The mapping of the Stable Cadastre was the first large-scale mapping of the whole of Austria carried out on a geodetic basis in the 1820s and 1850s. The result was a detailed map at a scale of 1 : 2,880 (1 : 1,440 in denser developments).

The stable cadastre was to be a permanent and perfect list of all land subject to tax. Its mapping was initiated on the basis of a patent of Emperor Francis I in the 1920s. The measurement work and the method of creating the cadastral map were firmly given by the measurement instructions. The geodetic basis for the mapping was the trigonometric network built simultaneously for military mapping.

The unit of length for measurements and calculations was the Vienna fathom and the resulting scale of cadastral maps 1 : 2,880 (1 : 1,440). One colored print, called the "imperial" print, was designated by the patent to be deposited in the Vienna archives. The territory of present-day Prague was surveyed in 1840 - 1843. Imperial prints are not available in the Central Archives of Surveying and Cadastre for the Bubeneč and Dejvice cadastral areas. Original maps are stored for the Bubeneč CA and uncolored prints for the Dejvice CA.

The maps are stored in the Central Archives of Surveying and Cadastre of the State Administration of Land Surveying and Cadastre.
Stable cadastre maps 1 : 2,880 (1 : 1,440)

Original map of the stable cadastre 1842

The original map of the stable cadastre (1842, with drawings of changes up to 1883) is a direct result of the surveying work during the establishment of the stable cadastre. Hand-drawn and hand-colored maps at a scale 1 : 1,440 were reproduced lithographically after completion and one of the printed copies was deposited in Vienna as a control copy, the so-called imperial compulsory print. The original maps were kept as registration maps and changes were drawn on them with a red line, the last of them dating from around 1883, when the duty of making regulatory plans passed from the municipal economic office to the building office.

The original maps differ fundamentally from the imperial compulsory prints on which the original state at the time of the establishment of the cadastre is preserved. The original maps, including annexes with changes in the original cadastral color scheme, are stored in the Central Archives of Surveying and Cadastre of the SALSC.
Original map of the stable cadastre 1842

Stable cadastre maps 1 : 720

Even a scale of 1 : 1,440 did not allow to sufficiently depict the details that the city administration needed in the dense Prague built-up area. The municipality therefore had a detailed plan made for its needs at a scale of 1 : 720.

The processing in 1856 was probably performed by the same units that had carried out the previous mapping of the stable cadastre. The plan includes a drawing of the building (including structures) and land plots identified by parcel numbers. Here you will find types of land use (gardens, fields, vineyards, pastures, water areas and public spaces), types of vegetation (parks, groves, forests including types of individual trees), sites (e.g., quarry or earthworks, well, fountain and watering hole) and roads (streets, squares, embankments, bridges, paths and roads including alleys and ditches).

The maps are stored in the archive of IPR Prague.
Stable cadastre maps 1 : 720