Development of land use and land tenure in relation to the historical socio-political changes in the central Europe – Case study Czech-Austrian borders

On the model cadastral area development of land tenure and land use will be documented in the period from 1875 to the present. Development of land tenure and land use was conducted by the end of the First World War for the same socio-economic conditions as in neighbouring Austria. After the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia there is a change in legislation, affecting first the different approaches to land tenure and land use in the Czech Republic and other countries of former Austro Hungarian Empire. Other significant changes took place in the period after the second World War, when the displacement of the German population. Other documentable shift in the use and tenure of agricultural land brings rural socialization in 50th of 20th century. Socialist mass production culminates at the end of the 80th of 20th century. By the end of this period there were significant measures throughout the cadastral territory as it has undergone changes in the use of agricultural land. In the period after 1990, there was a significant reduction in the intensity of farming in the area of interest, which in turn resulted in a significant change in land use.