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Office 62 - Office for Geoinformation and Cadastral Registry
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The Office for Geoinformation and Cadastral Registry (Office 62) is assigned to Department V.
At the Office for Geoinformation and Cadastral Registry, 65 employees work on topics such as geoinformation, the cadastral register, and property valuation.
Our Tasks
Land Register
- Comprehensive and up-to-date management of parcels and buildings (properties) in a geographic information system, including information on geometric shape, location, size, parcel numbers, street names, house numbers, and location designations
- Geometry improvements in the cadastral map
- Incorporation of subdivision, boundary, and building surveys
- Execution of parcel consolidations
- Monitoring the obligation for building surveys
- Maintenance of ownership information including owner addresses in accordance with the land register
- Management of land use, topography, and agricultural soil quality
- Incorporation of land consolidation measures such as land reallocation and readjustments
- Electronic preparation and safeguarding of all cadastral data
- Modernization of the cadastre
Geoinformation
- Information from the land register
- Internet-based geoportal RIO (RaumInformation Oberberg) as a search and information service
- Distribution of geodata (spatial data) and cadastral records, also via download services
- Operation and maintenance of geographic information systems
- Municipal geodata management, i.e., making geodata usable for various political and administrative questions
- Provision of aerial imagery
- Provision of navigation data
- Provision of current topographic and municipal maps
- Internal departmental tasks in
information technology
Geodata and Their Collection
- Collection of geodata on site
- Analysis and interpretation of aerial imagery
- Contracting flights over the district
- Collection of municipal and other geodata through digitization
- Surveys for the renewal and completion of the cadastral register
- On request, execution of subdivision, boundary, and building surveys as well as technical surveys
Property Valuation
The office of the expert committee for property values has the following tasks:
- Information on property valuation questions
- Analysis of purchase contracts and maintenance of a purchase price collection
- Collection of additional data from buyers and authorities
- Derivation of land and real estate reference values
- Preparation of property and housing market reports
- Publication and provision of data for property valuation
- On request, preparation of appraisals and opinions on market values of properties and property rights
- Preparation and publication of rent indexes for all district-affiliated cities and municipalities
Our Performance in Numbers
We manage over 300,000 parcels within a district area of approximately 919 km², making it one of the five largest cadastral holdings in North Rhine-Westphalia. Additionally, there are about 170,000 main and auxiliary buildings, resulting in a database containing over 3 million points.
We process approximately 20,000 changes to ownership information annually.
The expert committee for property values has analyzed over 100,000 property sales for the purchase price collection, with nearly 4,000 added annually. More than 3,000 land value zones are updated and made available each year.
Our Goals for You
We provide up-to-date and comprehensive information and products on the following topics:
- Property
- Ownership
- Maps
- Aerial Imagery
- Surveying
- Property Valuation
You can access this information personally, by phone, or electronically. As an additional service, we also provide some of our products through district-affiliated cities and municipalities.
