The rural landscape according to the cadastral parcellary and their Memories of the wealth rustic of 1899. The municipality of Córdoba - Spain

Abstract

One of the land registry documents which is a milestone relevant in the development of the administrative system and prosecutor for the knowledge of the wealth spanish tax is the Land of 1899. In a way, the development of these cadastral enquiries is one of the symptoms of modernity that characterized the political landscape, administrative, social and economic of the nineteenth century, in post of a state more functional and away from historic principles obsolete. Its purpose was to reach an analytical system of wealth rural of the country, effective and functional that valued with objectivity the worth of wealth territorial. This concern culminate, as is well known, with the enactment of the Law on March 27, 1900, driven by the minister conservative Fernández Villaverde. It will improve certain earlier provisions and get a giant step forward in the design of a land registry of crops to take the basis of the work topographic and agronomic carried out by independent technical of the Ministry of Finance, to which he joined the elaboration of a register prosecutor of land rustic and livestock that should allow a better understanding of the genuine tax bases of agriculture.

Are such work and inquiries topographical and economic allow, using the cadastral mapping preserved and notebooks agronomic, offer in this article a reconstruction of rural landscape of the more than 1,200 square kilometers that constitute the current municipality andaluz de Córdoba, capital of the homonimous Province.