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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
- 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
- Identifier
- ch.bak.bundesinventar-schuetzenswerte-ortsbilder
- 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.
- 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
Owner
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 5000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 5000
- Topic category
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- M Society
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Duration of Conservation
- 1
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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official geoservice
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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federal inventory
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heritage site
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ISOS
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- GEMET
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historical monument
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cultural goods
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historical site
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conservation of monuments
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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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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
Associated resource
- Title
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Federal Inventory of Swiss heritage sites (ISOS)
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Basic Geodata
- true
- Basic Geodata ID
-
25.1
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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Portable Document Format (PDF)
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INTERLIS
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bak.bundesinventar-schuetzenswerte-ortsbilder
WMS-FSDI service, layer "ISOS - Site records"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bak.bundesinventar-schuetzenswerte-ortsbilder
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "ISOS - Site records"
Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 954451d0-f68a-4785-92e1-60aff077dd91
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/954451d0-f68a-4785-92e1-60aff077dd91
- Date info (Creation)
- 2009-07-21T12:00:00Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-06-15T12:20:09.873969Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
