The surveyors from the Ludwigsburg district office set off early in the morning for Kornwestheim at the end of October - their job: to officially survey the new forest area for transfer to the real estate register.
The real estate register provides comprehensive information on all properties and their characteristics throughout Baden-Württemberg, for example their location, boundaries, development, area and use. It therefore forms the basis for all legal processes concerning land and soil, and the information on land use in particular plays a major role in agriculture and forestry.
However, according to the land register, the new forest area previously only consisted of arable land. Until recently, the town of Kornwestheim had no forest, at least not officially. Over 30 years ago, trees began to be planted on an area that had previously been used for agriculture. Now, three decades later, the "area planted with forest plants" has been officially classified as a forest.
In order for the actual use to be changed to forest land in the land register, the extent of the forest had to be determined locally. The surveyors on site precisely recorded the edge of the forest using a total station, a measuring device that measures distances and angles. With the help of additional GPS satellite measurements, the measurement data could then be converted into usable coordinates. This has now clearly defined where the approximately 1.9-hectare forest area begins and ends.
But the development is probably not over yet. The city of Kornwestheim is planning to expand the existing forest in the future on an adjacent municipal area. Then, of course, the new area will also be surveyed for the property register.
