Land surveying: How is the boundary line determined?

Hello everyone,
a question regarding the land survey. The plot we favor has neighbors on the left and right. The fence, or rather the first 10m of the fence, makes a nice curve inward into "our" property from the front.
I suspect that the fence runs on "our" property. I don’t want to accuse the neighbor of anything bad, but then we would already have the correct boundary.

But how is the exact course determined? By a surveyor? But how does he do that? Logically, I would assume he looks for boundary stones, but what if he doesn’t find any? At the end of the property, the corner where a boundary stone might be is quite overgrown.
What if none are present?

Hi Thomas,
simple, just take a shovel and dig.... :-) There should actually be boundary stones there. Overbuilding these stones or, even worse, removing them is not allowed and can cause serious trouble.

You can also see the boundary line well in the extracts from the land registry office. They are available for a small fee. The only question is whether they are allowed to release them before the purchase of the property. But maybe you can at least view them, and if the boundary line is drawn straight there, something is fishy. That would be more than just cheeky....

Best regards,

Andreas

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