Dimension stone used in historic buildings

This dataset shows around 4000 historic sites in Switzerland in which dimension stone was used as a construction material. This catalogue was compiled by F. de Quervain between 1954 – 1983 and then supplemented in the following years.

Simple

Alternate title

Dimension stone in historic buildings

Date (Creation)
2013-06-20
Identifier
ch.swisstopo.geologie-geotechnik-steine_historische_bauwerke

Status
Historical archive

Owner

Federal Office of Topography swisstopo - Swiss Geological Survey
Seftigenstrasse 264
Wabern
3084
CH
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swiss-geological-survey

Owner

Georesources Switzerland Group
Sonneggstrasse 5
Zürich
8092
CH
https://georessourcen.ethz.ch
Spatial representation type
Vector
Topic category
  • F Geoscientific information
  • O Structure

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GEMET

  • mineral resource

  • raw material securing

  • natural stone

  • extractive industry

  • resources

  • mining

  • land management and planning

  • building materials industry

  • geology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Buildings

  • Mineral resources

  • Geology

geocat.ch

  • opendata.swiss

  • structure plan

  • spatial development

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

  • lithology

  • confederation

  • raw material extraction

  • land use planning

  • well-consolidated rock

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Subtopic Category
F1 Geology
Subtopic Category
E1 Spatial Planning, Spatial Development
Distribution format

  • ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

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WMS-FSDI service, layer "Dimension stone in historic buildings"

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WTMS-FSDI service, layer "Dimension stone in historic buildings"

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Identifier

Code
EPSG:21781
Description

CH1903 / LV03 (EPSG:21781)

Metadata

Metadata identifier
efe1b3cf-dac4-4660-a5bd-a9269a3d97db

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

Owner

Federal Office of Topography swisstopo - Swiss Geological Survey
Seftigenstrasse 264
Wabern
3084
CH
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swiss-geological-survey

Owner

Georesources Switzerland Group
Sonneggstrasse 5
Zürich
8092
CH
https://georessourcen.ethz.ch

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/efe1b3cf-dac4-4660-a5bd-a9269a3d97db

Date info (Revision)
2026-08-13T06:08:35.00149Z
Date info (Creation)
2011-07-21T13:43:00Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

building materials industry extractive industry geology land management and planning mineral resource mining natural stone raw material securing resources
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Buildings Geology Mineral resources
geocat.ch

FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure confederation land use planning lithology opendata.swiss raw material extraction spatial development structure plan well-consolidated rock


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