Towards the image of Ljubljana after the Congress of 1821

Buildings and their owners in the Franciscean Cadastre

Abstract

Ljubljana obtained its first accurate cartographic depiction with the Franciscean Cadastre in 1825, four years after the famous Congress of the Holy Alliance. The Franciscean Cadastre provides a reliable reference framework for an array of spatial and other studies, including a retrospective insight into the distant past. The article focuses on the building stock of the city and its seven suburbs, with an emphasis on ownership of residential buildings and on public buildings. Special attention is paid to the utilitarian value of the graphic and textual segments of the cadastre, and the publication of cadastre records for building parcels will serve as a tool for further research on the history of the capital of present-day Slovenia and once the capital of the Duchy of Carniola.