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ISOS - Federal Inventory of Swiss heritage sites of national importance since 2021 - Site records
The Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites (ISOS) designates and documents the most valuable sites of national importance. It makes it possible to understand the history and identity of sites and is thus an important basis for quality settlement development.
Work on the ISOS began in 1973 with the development of a suitable method for cataloguing sites – the ISOS method. In 2016, the Federal Office of Culture (FOC) updated this method and adapted the presentation of the inventory in line with GIS technology. The original method (ISOS I) and the adapted method (ISOS II) are based on the same basic principles and rules.
This portal presents the ISOS site records currently in use. There are two kinds of data:
1. the site records prepared using the ISOS I method, which are only available as PDFs;
2. the site records updated using the ISOS II method, which are available as PDFs and geodata. Please be aware that only the PDFs are legally valid. The geodata are for information purposes only. The level of detail increases as the scale increases.
The ISOS is currently being revised and the revision is taking place in stages. This means that for a certain period of time, site records compiled using the ISOS I method and those updated using the ISOS II method will coexist on this portal. Once the revision for the whole of Switzerland has been completed, only the site records compiled using the ISOS II method will be available.
This layer presents the site records of the ISOS sites. It is updated once a year. The information is clearest when this layer is placed under the “photos” layer.
All ISOS data (plans, texts, photos) are the intellectual property of the Swiss federal government (© FOC, Bern).
For detailed information on ISOS, see www.isos.ch.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
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ISOS - Site records
- Date (Revision)
- 2015-05-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-01-01T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-03-25
- Citation identifier
- ch.bak.bundesinventar-schuetzenswerte-ortsbilder
Citation identifier
- Presentation form
- Hardcopy document
- Presentation form
- Digital document
- Other citation details
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Die Daten stehen als Geodaten und/oder als PDF zur Verfügung.
- Collective title
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Federal Inventory of Swiss heritage sites (ISOS)
- Purpose
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According to Article 78 of the Federal Constitution, the Confederation is obliged to take account of concerns for the protection of natural and cultural heritage in the fulfilment of its duties. “It shall protect the countryside and places of architectural, historical, natural or cultural interest; it shall preserve such places intact if required to do so in the public interest”. In order to be able to properly fulfil this duty of balancing the interests of the protection of natural and cultural heritage with the diverse duties of the Confederation, its institutions and enterprises, the ISOS is being developed as a basis for decision-making.
- Status
- Historical archive
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Culture - ISOS
- Position name
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Section Baukultur
- Voice
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+41 58 462 86 26
Address
- City
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Bern
- Postal code
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3003
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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isos@bak.adm isos@bak.admin.ch
- Streetname
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Hallwylstrasse
- Streetnumber
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15
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- First Name
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Marcia
- Last Name
-
Haldemann
- Organisation Acronym
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FOC
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Culture
- Position name
-
Contact
- Voice
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+41 58 462 92 66
Address
- City
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Bern
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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info@bak.adm info@bak.admin.ch
- Streetname
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Hallwylstrasse
- Streetnumber
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15
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Owner
- Organisation Acronym
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FOC
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Appraisal AAP
- Duration of conservation
- 1
- Appraisal of archival value
- of archival value
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geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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official geoservice
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heritage site
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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federal inventory
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ISOS
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GEMET
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historical monument
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cultural goods
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conservation of monuments
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historical site
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY ASK: Open use. Must provide the source. Use for commercial purposes requires permission of the data owner.
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 5000
- Denominator
- 5000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- Français
- Language
- Italiano
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- M Population, Society, Culture
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
))
- Basic geodata identifier
-
25.1
- Basic geodata identifier type
- Federal
- Distribution format
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Portable Document Format (PDF)
()
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INTERLIS
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)
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Portable Document Format (PDF)
()
- OnLine resource
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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MAP:Preview
)
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.bak.bundesinventar-schuetzenswerte-ortsbilder
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OGC:WMS
)
WMS-FSDI service, layer "ISOS - Site records"
- OnLine resource
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ch.bak.bundesinventar-schuetzenswerte-ortsbilder
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OGC:WMTS
)
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "ISOS - Site records"
- OnLine resource
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Link to description
(
WWW:LINK
)
Link to description
- OnLine resource
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Link zum Datenbezug
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
)
Link zum Datenbezug
- OnLine resource
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Thematic geoportal
(
CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
)
Thematic geoportal
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
(
ESRI:REST
)
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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Permalink opendata.swiss
(
OPENDATA:SWISS
)
Permalink opendata.swiss
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
-
ISOS - Bundesinventar der schützenswerten Ortsbilder der Schweiz von nationaler Bedeutung
12bcf72d-6ef6-4486-a71f-25c37044392b
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-11-28T11:11:18
- Metadata standard name
-
GM03 2+
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Culture - ISOS
- Position name
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Section Baukultur
- Voice
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+41 58 462 86 26
Address
- City
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Bern
- Postal code
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3003
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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isos@bak.adm isos@bak.admin.ch
- Streetname
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Hallwylstrasse
- Streetnumber
-
15
- Protocol
-
WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- First Name
-
Marcia
- Last Name
-
Haldemann
- Organisation Acronym
-
FOC
