Federal Geological Institute
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| State level | Federation | ||
| Position of the authority | subordinate agency | ||
| At sight | Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research | ||
| founding | November 15, 1849 as the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute ( Franz Joseph I. ) | ||
| Headquarters | Wien-Landstrasse , Vienna , Austria | ||
| Authority management | Robert Supper | ||
| Website | www.geologie.ac.at | ||
The Federal Geological Institute ( GBA ) in Vienna (3rd district) is Austria's geological service . As an agency subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), it serves the Federal Republic and its state tasks as a central information and advice center in the field of geosciences .
The most important product of the GBA are geological maps . They appear in various scales as so-called sheet -cut maps , in special cases also as area maps. They form the basis for answering many practical questions ( rocks and tectonics , deposits of mineral raw materials , sediments, landfills , hydrogeology and water supply , special traffic routes , ...) and also for research . The GBA is located in the Wien-Landstrasse district .
history
The origins of the GBA go back to the Montanistische Museum , which was founded in 1835 on Heumarkt in Vienna and functioned among other things as a collection of minerals, rocks and ore samples and as a training institute for graduates of the mining academies . In 1840 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger became the director of the museum, who was responsible for creating the first geognostic map of the Austrian Empire in 1847 . Geology gained greater importance through Haidinger and so on November 15, 1849, Emperor Franz Joseph founded the independent Imperial and Royal Geological Institute (GRA) with Haidinger as the first director. The institution was from its founding until 2005 at the Palais Razumovsky in Rasumofskygasse . In February 2005 it moved to Neulinggasse 38, right next to the S1 high-speed railway , the route of which runs in the former Wiener Neustädter Canal . The buildings are a synthesis of adapted buildings from the former University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna and a new building (architect Stefan Hübner).
Directors
Each with a term of office as director
- Wilhelm von Haidinger , 1849–1866 (founder)
- Franz von Hauer , 1866–1885
- Dionýs Štúr , 1885-1892
- Guido Stache , 1892–1902
- Emil Tietze , 1902-1919
- Georg Geyer , 1919–1923
- Wilhelm Hammer , 1924–1935
- Otto Ampferer , 1935–1937
- Gustav Götzinger , 1938
- Heinrich Beck , acting head of what is now the Reich Office for Soil Research, Vienna branch, 1938–1941
- Franz Lotze , 1941–1945
- Gustav Götzinger, 1945-January 1950
- Heinrich Küpper , 1950–1969
- Anton Ruttner , 1969–1973
- Felix Ronner , 1974–1982
- Traugott Erich Gattinger , 1983–1993
- Hans Peter Schönlaub , 1993-2009
- Peter Seifert , 2009–2019
- Robert Supper , since 2019
Other employees
See category: Employees of the Federal Geological Institute
Legal basis
The most important legal basis for the Federal Geological Institute (GBA) is the Austrian Research Organization Act (FOG), which lists the most important tasks. Further legal provisions relevant to the activities of the GBA are contained in the Federal Act on Researching the Federal Territory for Usable Minerals ( Deposits Act ) and in the Mineral Raw Materials Act .
The partial legal capacity enables projects to be carried out on a private basis. The focus of the project-oriented work is on issues from the field of applied geosciences , in particular mineral raw materials .
In the border area, the GBA cooperates with geological services in neighboring countries ( Germany , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Slovenia and Hungary ). There are also agreements with the geological services of Poland and Croatia .
Organizational form
The GBA is managed by the director; He is supported by the "Office for International Cooperation and Public Relations ". The further structure is based on main departments (geological survey of the state, applied geosciences , information services) these are subdivided into further specialist departments that take on the operational implementation of the tasks. Thematic focuses exist in the fields of geology (sedimentary geology and crystalline geology ), paleontology , geochemistry , geophysics , hydrogeology , engineering geology and raw material geology . The production of geological maps takes place exclusively with the help of geographic information systems ( GIS ), the distribution of the geological maps and publications (yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute, archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute, treatises of the Federal Geological Institute, etc.) takes place through its own publishing house .
Services
The main service of the GBA is the creation, analysis and publication of geological maps and other spatial data .
- The standard map series of the GBA is the Geological Map of the Republic of Austria (GÖK) 1:50 000 (partly 1:25 000). The sheet section corresponds to the official topographic Austrian map (ÖK) 1:50 000 of the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying .
- In addition, the geological overview map of the Austrian federal states on a scale of 1: 200,000, the geological overview map of the Republic of Austria 1: 2,000,000 and other overview maps in larger scales (1: 500,000, 1: 1 million, 1: 1.5 million .) created. In addition, the provisional geological maps (GEOF @ ST) 1:50 000 are published, inventories of various older geological land surveys that do not yet meet the modern criteria of the systematics and legends of the GÖK, but should nevertheless be made accessible.
- Other geoscientific maps are the underground map in the Vorfeld der Alpen 1: 20,000, the metallogenetic map 1: 500,000, the mining / dump land register 1:25,000 (1: 5000) (in cooperation with the raw material geology department ), the geochemical atlas of Austria 1: 1,000,000 and the hydrogeological map of Austria 1: 500,000.
- Important data sets relate to geological recordings and surveys of building raw materials and unconsolidated rock , measurements with aeromagnetics , ground-based magnetics and geothermal energy (with the geophysics department ) and with gamma ray spectroscopy (natural background radiation), as well as the prospection of oil and natural gas , measurements of alpine mass movements .
- The GBA data also includes contributions to the Hydrological Atlas Austria (HAÖ, in cooperation with the Ministry of Life ), investigations on the topic of thermal and mineral water , the hydrochemical geogenic background value of various elements and compounds in groundwater bodies (GeoHint), as well as the mapping of the geotopes of Austria as natural monuments.
All publications are made available online on the GBA website; the archive goes back to 1919.
The second mainstay is the library of the service facilities of the GBA. It is the largest geological library in Austria and manages more than 360,000 library units. The library also includes the special collections ( map collection , scientific archive , graphic collection and audiovisual media ). It is the central collection and documentation center for geoscientific literature about Austria and is available to the general public .
See also
literature
- Geological Federal Institute (Ed.): The Geological Federal Institute in Vienna. Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-205-99036-6
- Hans Georg Krenmayr (Red.): ROCKY AUSTRIA - A colorful geological history of Austria. Vienna 2002. ISBN 3-85316-016-6
- Thomas Hofmann, Hans P. Schönlaub (Ed.): Geo-Atlas Austria. The diversity of the geological subsurface. 1st edition, Böhlau, 2008. ISBN 978-3-205-77726-7 (overview of geoscientific maps of Austria, project of the Federal Geological Institute)
Web links
- www.geologie.ac.at - Official website
- Entry on the Federal Geological Institute in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on the Federal Geological Institute in the Austria Forum (as postage stamp display)
Individual evidence
Remarks
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^ At Georgi 1861 the lease in the Liechtenstein'schen Palais was to end and the institution was to be housed in an Aerarial building for the time being. - See: Wiener Nachrichten. (...) The geological Reichsanstalt, which (...). In: Die Presse , September 4, 1860, p. (4), top center. (Online at ANNO ). .
The address of the Geological Reichsanstalt at that time was Landstrasse 93 (see: Adolph Lehmann: General address book and business manual for the imperial and royal capital Vienna and its surroundings . First year. Förster, Vienna 1859, ZDB -ID 2642521- X , p. 933 online ) or Rasumoffskyplatz 93 , later Rasumoffskyplatz 3 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 57 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 8 ″ E