Map of the Gemarkung of the German municipality Hasel in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1904, showing a proposed land swap between the local Domänenjagdbezirk (roughly: state hunting district) and the Gemeindejagdbezirk (municipal hunting district)

A Gemarkung (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈmaʁkʊŋ] ⓘ; also Markung, in Switzerland also Gemarchen) is the entirety of all land plots of a specific municipality, or a specific large part of a municipality, recorded in the cadastre in the countries of Germany and Switzerland (For an equivalent concept in Austria and adjacent countries see Katastralgemeinde).

Gemarkung may be variously translated into English as: district, cadastral district, local subdistrict, cadastral area, tithing, township, parish, section of a community area

Gemarkung registers record the parcels' location, usage and geomorphology and the like qualities, however, the rights to the land (as property, or collateral liened by a mortgage) are kept in the Grundbuch (land register). A Gemarkung is made up of a number of, usually contiguous, plots of land/parcels (Flurstücke). In many cases, several "Flurstücke" are grouped together to form a Flur, usually a tract of open land or forest. In sum, the sequence of the three subdivisions is: Gemarkung - Flur - Flurstück.

External links

  • (ZIP-Archiv mit Textdatei)
  • (hier Vermessungsamt 93 = Wolfratshausen)
  • 2018-02-19 at the Wayback Machine (PDF-Datei; 571 kB)
  • 2016-02-24 at the Wayback Machine (ZIP-Archiv mit Excel-Tabelle; 215 kB)