DOI: 10.29302/Pangeea 19.12

SURVEYING AND CADASTRAL WORKS IN VIEW OFESTABLISHING AN AREA OF TOURIST INTEREST

IN THE CITY OF SEBEŞ, ALBA COUNTY

Assoc.prof.PhD.eng. MAGDOLNA EVA KONCSAG“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Eng. DANIEL IVĂNUŞ, SC Holzindustrie Schweighofer SRL, Sebeş, Romania

ABSTRACT: Due to its geographical position, the city of Sebeş is characterized by amoderate continental climate, favouring the development of itinerant tourism. For thisreason, in view of a better cadastral evidence on the area of interest, measurements and asite plan have been drawn up so as to provide real-time data to all the existing real estatemanagement and planning entities.

Keywords: surveying; cadastral works; cadastral evidence; methods and instruments;Gothic church;

1. Introduction

The present work was carried out in thecity of Sebeş. The research site was thefortress area, which today consists ofapproximately 5-meter-high walls andpartially preserved defence towers (TheTailors’ Tower, The Bootmakers’ Tower). Itwas built at the end of the 14th andbeginning of the 15th century. It consists ofan enclosure wall, 1,700 m long, whichincludes battlements and holes for fuel thatare well preserved to date (fig. 1).

The fortress has got four gate towers, ofwhich only the remains of those on the northand west sides are preserved. In thesouth-east corner, only the Tailors' orStudent's Tower are preserved. In the north- east corner, there is a strong polygonaltower, built in 1678. On the north side, wecan find the North Gate Tower and theShoemakers’ Tower. To the west, we canfind the Gate Tower [3, p.64] .

The Evangelical Lutheran church wasbuilt in a Gothic style between the 13th and

Fig.1. The Fortress wall

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the14th centuries, and renovated in aRenaissance style during a later period oftime (fig. 2).

The construction of the church, whichbegan before 1241, was completed in 1382.It represents an interesting mix of theRomanesque and Gothic architectural styles.Its altar, the highest to be found inTransylvania, is decorated with reliefpaintings and sculptures dated between 1518and 1528. The old Romanesque part of thechurch was present during the Tatar invasion(1241), as a basilica with three naves. Thecentral nave was much raised and vaultedduring the works carried out in the thirteenthcentury, and the other three sides wereenlarged and raised in the fourteenthcentury. Today, they are gathered under oneroof. The old Romanesque choir has beenreplaced by a Gothic hall-like one, coveredwith vaults that rest on arches. The exteriorof this portion is decorated with stonestatues, canopies and pinnacles [5].Following the restoration work from1960-1964, the choir of the old Romanesquechurch was marked on the floor [1].

2. Methods and instruments used

In order to elevate the area of touristinterest, which includes the walls of thefortress and the Evangelical church,

topo-cadastral measurements were madewith the total Leica 800 TPS station. Themeasurements processing was performed

with the Toposys specialized software andAutoCad 2016.

As a result of the measurements made inthe field on block no.14, (block containingthe property mentioned above) thedownloaded land book was processed withthe Toposys 8.0 software. The inventory ofcompensated coordinates of the points thatwere deleted from the register was thusobtained (fig. 3, tab. 1).

The obtained coordinates were exportedto AutoCad, a software specialised in dataprocessing and reported with the aid ofTopoLT (fig. 4, 5).

After connecting the dots, the layoutcorresponding to block 14 was obtained ispresented in fig. 6.

In order to finalise the cadastraldocuments, the site plan and property layoutwere drawn up, which included: the plot ofthe land, the coordinates of the points, thearea of the property, the category of its use,the address of the immovable property, dataregarding constructions where appropriateand mentions regarding the land and/or theconstruction [4] (fig. 7).

The calculus of areas’ sizes was carriedout with AutoCad 2016 and the calculussoftware TopoLT (fig. 8).

Fig. 2. The Evangelical Lutheran church

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Tab. 1. Inventory of coordinates of all points from block 14

Fig. 3. Automatic deletion

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Fig. 6. Layout

Fig. 5. Points reporting in AutoCad

Fig. 4. Reporting of points with the aid of TopoLT

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Fig. 7. Site plan and property limits

Fig. 8. Calculus of areas using TopoLT

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3. Conclusions

In order to carry out the cadastralregistration, the following were prepared: • the supporting technical report; • the area establishment plan prepared at a

convenient scale by the rule 1:2,000 - 1:10,000;

• the actual location plan on an analogmedium on a convenient scale (1: 500, 1:1,000, 1: 2,000) and in a digital format;

• the property record; • the inventory with the points used for the

surveying of the building in 1970 or localstereographic coordinate system;

• the coordinate inventory of the points onthe outline of the building / property andfour established points of detail that couldserve to reconstruct the coordinate systemused to determine the limits of theproperty;

• the applications draft.

References

[1] Cărpinişianu R., Vârstele oraşului Sebeş - 750 de ani de atestare documentara1245-1995, (Ages of the City of Sebeş - 750 years since the city was first attested withdocuments), Petresti, 1995.

[2] Ivănuş Daniel, Surveying and cadastral works in view of establishing an area of touristinterest in the city of Sebeş, Alba County, Bachelor’s Degree Thesis, “1 Decembrie 1918”University of Alba Iulia, 2019, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, under thecoordination of assoc.prof. Ph.D Eva Koncsag;

[3] Raica I., Sebeşul, Ed. George Bariţiu, Cluj-Napoca, 2002;[4] ORDER no. 700 of 9th July 2014 regarding the approval of Regulations for the approval,

acceptance and registration into the land book and cadastral registers; [5] The official website of Sebes City Hall.