Popp, Atlas cadastrale parcellaire de la Belgique, 1842 - 1879

Between 1842 and 1879, Philippe-Christian Popp (1805-1879) started the ambitious project for which Philippe Vandermaelen had taken the initiative and which consisted of drawing up the land register plans of all Belgian municipalities. He wanted to make it available to a large audience for a modest price. His death in 1879 interrupted the creation of his Atlas cadastral parcellaire de la Belgique [...]. His widow Caroline-Clémence Boussart (1808-1891) completed the publication of the plans for the province of Liège. The fund has around 1,800 plans (some of them on multiple folios), to be increased by the 164 cadastral plans of the Atlas cadastral du Royaume de Belgique published by Philippe Vandermaelen (Source: KBR). The dataset consists mainly of the scanned original Popp cards, where not available these are supplemented with scans of copies made by Ghent University. The maps were georeferenced on the basis of the GRB.