Building address
A building address is the address which, as a rule, uniquely identifies the location of a particular building in terms of country and, with the country, worldwide.
Purpose and meaning
The building address is used by the post office , the emergency services , the fire brigade , the police or people unfamiliar with the location to quickly find a building they are looking for. In particular, the building address relates to a building entrance as a point in the building at which one enters the building with the idea of a certain address. As a rule, a building address is only assigned to the main entrance of a building. If apartments in a building are accessible through separate entrances, these entrances are usually assigned separate building addresses.
Building addressing plays a central role today in public administration as well as in the private sector of citizens. Vehicle navigation systems have become increasingly important. Building addresses are also used for electronic telephone directories as well as in building and apartment registers, basic and location plans and geographic information systems (GIS).
Form and examples
In contrast to a postal address, a building address does not contain any information about persons or companies and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland basically consists of a combination of the following elements:
Examples of building addresses on Google :
- Bahnhofstrasse 1, 12305 Berlin, Germany
- Bahnhofstrasse 1, 1140 Vienna, Austria
- Bahnhofplatz 1, 3011 Bern, Switzerland
Differentiation from residential address
A building address is closely related to the term residential address . In principle, a building address can be assigned to all buildings, including those that are not used for living (such as industrial buildings, public buildings, forest huts, shooting ranges, etc.). In the case of information on people, the address is residential address or address and not the building address . Like a building address, the residential address can also refer to a part of the building and, like the building address, is fundamentally independent of a person. In contrast to the building address, however, the residential address can also refer to a sub-tenancy (“bei” or “ c / o ”).
The term building address evolved from the term residential address shortly before the year 2000 . Residential and building addresses are usually identical, with the building address being used more generally than the residential address.
Georeferencing
A georeferenced building address contains, in addition to the building address , corresponding coordinates , called house coordinates in Germany .
Building addressing
Building addresses only exist within a larger unit such as B. a municipality as an overall system with appropriate planning and maintenance as well as with appropriate signage. In Switzerland, the political communities are responsible for naming streets and assigning house numbers . Since this is a typical enforcement task, it is usually assigned to the municipality or city council in the municipal or police ordinance. Advisory commissions are set up in larger municipalities to prepare these transactions for the executive authorities .
More and more, not only buildings in which people live or work are assigned their own building address, but also auxiliary buildings and special buildings such as B. shooting ranges, forest huts, buildings in recreational facilities, etc., since with these the quick findability in emergencies is of great importance.
In 2005, the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland issued a recommendation on building addressing: "Building addressing and spelling of street names". This was revised in 2018 together with the Federal Statistical Office .
For the house resp. There are different numbering systems around the world for building numbering.
Suitable and widespread numbering principles include the zigzag principle (for streets) and the circle principle (for squares), while the horseshoe principle is inexpedient and not very common today.
The street name can include the name of the following objects as part of the building address:
- Street
- space
- Area (occasionally used in rural, sparsely populated areas, referred to as a named area in Switzerland )
Building address in the mailing address
Example of a postal address in Germany, Austria or Switzerland (for details see postal address )
Salutation (optional)
Building address
Information about the apartment: in Austria and Switzerland, the house number can be added after a slash, in Germany after two slashes the designation apartment block and numbers relating to the staircase (staircase), floor and apartment / door (no uniform standard available for Germany, Austria and Switzerland ).
Building name in the mailing address
Buildings, especially houses , sometimes have a building or house name or are closely linked to a local name ( place and field name ). When building addressing is introduced, such designations cannot always be taken into account as part of the building address. It is, however, possible to include a building / house name or a location (local name) such as: in the mailing address between the mail recipient and the building address . B. to list the district or the field name as an additional address.
Salutation (optional)
Building or local name (optional)
House names as an important cultural asset can be preserved in the long term if they are linked to the corresponding building addresses in publicly published directories, such as B. was successfully implemented in the city of Wädenswil .
Difference between house and building numbers
In the case of street-by-street house numbering (building addressing), house numbers were primarily assigned to residential and commercial buildings. That is why the building address is referred to as a house number and not a building number . The term house number should definitely be kept with this meaning, as the term building number can have a completely different meaning. A building number is in Switzerland as administrative number understood a building which has nothing to do with the building addressing and is awarded to an entirely different purpose (see. Eg. As Official building Number resp. Eidgen. Building Number in Switzerland).
Meaning of local names in building addresses
Local name ( local and field names ) are often important elements in building addresses and give them a cultural and historical significance.
- Street names are usually composed of a defining word z. B. Stocken-, Steinacher-, Grünau- etc. and a basic word such as -straße, -weg, -platz etc. together (composition). The qualifiers are often derived from local names. In sparsely populated areas, local names without basic words are often used as street names (simple street names such as Stocken, Steinacher, Grünau, etc.).
- Locations in the postal sense mostly corresponded to identical place names.
Meaning of local names in the absence of building addresses
In areas without buildings, where building addresses for navigation are missing, z. As in emergencies local name ( local and field names assume this function). Since local names are not always unique in a country, a local name must be used in such cases. B. be specified with the name of the associated municipality .
See also
- Official house coordinates (Germany)
- Official Surveying Switzerland , which administers building addresses throughout Switzerland, keeps them up to date and makes them available.
- building
- Building name
- Georeferencing
- History of building addressing in Germany and Austria
- House as a sub-concept of building
- House name
- House number
- Local name
- Postal location
- Post code (Germany) ; Post code (Austria) ; Postcode (Switzerland)
- Street name
- What3words
- Home address
- Apartment number
Web links
Germany:
- Georeferenced building addresses (house coordinates) at adv-online.de (working group of the surveying administrations of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Austria:
Switzerland:
- Federal Building and Housing Register GWR and official street directory on map.geo.admin.ch
- Recommendations Building addressing and spelling of street names
- Recommendation: Addressing buildings and spelling of street names , Federal Office of Topography / Federal Statistical Office , 2018
- Recommendation on building addressing and spelling of street names , Federal Office of Topography , 2005
- Recommendation building addressing and spelling of street names. Building Directorate Canton Zurich , 2004, doi: 10.13140 / RG.2.1.2314.0881
- Information level “building addresses” at cadastre.ch (website of the Swiss cadastral system)
- Building address and building addressing giswiki.hsr.ch (GIS Wiki of HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil )
- Numbering principles and type of street designation when addressing buildings giswiki.hsr.ch
- History of building addressing giswiki.hsr.ch
- Recommendations on the spelling of community and place names in Switzerland Federal Office of Topography
- Federal Building and Housing Register GWR Federal Statistical Office
- Writing of field and street names in Wädenswil Martin Schlatter, Yearbook of the City of Wädenswil 2009, published on the Baukultur Wädenswil website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss standard 612040 building addresses
- ↑ Postal address is called the postal address in Switzerland
- ↑ a b c postcode (Germany) ; Post code (Austria) ; Postcode (Switzerland)
- ↑ for building addresses only, spelling country in the relevant national language e.g. B. Germany, Austria, Switzerland
- ↑ Recommendation: Addressing buildings and spelling of street names Federal Statistical Office / Federal Office of Topography, 2018
- ↑ Numbering principles for building addressing giswiki.hsr.ch
- ↑ a b For postal addresses e.g. B. GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND
- ↑ Postadressglobal of the Deutsche Bundespost ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Formatting and structuring of German addresses ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Formatting and structuring of Austrian addresses ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Formatting and structuring of Swiss addresses ( memento of the original from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ An address supplement is a supplement to the actual address (name, street, zip code, city). Typical address additions are e.g. B. delivery instructions such as c / o. The indication of building names and locations is rather unusual, but quite permissible
- ↑ Wädenswil house names
- ↑ Official building number; Confederation. Buildings and Dwellings Register ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The cultural and historical significance of street names and building addresses in the city of Zurich: cf. Old Zurich
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, article “How Zurich's streets got their names” from March 7, 2016 by Alexandra Kohler, Marvin Milatz and Simon Wimmer
