Visit of the Slovenian Geodesists Association 05.06.2024 – At the end of May, the Slovenian Geodesists Association got to know the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying and its tasks in more detail. The excursion concluded with a trip to the Habsburgwarte.

On May 24, the Slovenian Geodesists Association visited the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying - BEV at the Schiffamtsgasse office building for the first time as part of an excursion.

After being welcomed by Dipl.-Ing. Franz Blauensteiner, Head of the Department Geodetic Reference System and President of the Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation, and Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Feucht, Head of the Division Cadastre, the guests were introduced to several of the BEV's areas of responsibility in a program of presentations: basic surveying, national boundaries surveying, the tasks of the surveying offices and technical developments in the field of digital submission of surveying documents and cartography.

During a guided tour of the Cadastral Maps Archives and the Topographical Maps Archives, the original map of the Franziszeische Kataster and various historical maps were presented.

The tour concluded with a visit to the Habsburgwarte on the Hermannskogel in 1190 Vienna. The tower was built in 1888 by the Österreichischen Touristenklub - ÖTK. This is where the fundamental point of the Austrian national survey is located, which was established by the k.u.k. Militärgeografischen Institut (predecessor organization of the BEV).