The main objective of our research was to assess the changes in the landscape structure of the areas currently categorized as allotment gardens from the mid-20th century to 2022. We found the primary area changes between each CORINE Land Cover class by comparing the land use in 1949 and 2022 inside the contingency table. These changes were related to the economic and political situation of the country, so on the basis of archival research and analysis of legislation, we also provide an overview of the most important legislative frameworks influencing the establishment and transformation of garden settlements. In Bratislava, the first gardens began to be created on the initiative of foreign entrepreneurs or enthusiastic philanthropists only at the end of the 19th century. In the 1950s, the land cover of today‘s allotment gardens was a varied mosaic of gardens (43.87%), non-irrigated arable land (16.27%), grasslands (13.5 %), annual crops associated with permanent crops (8.27%), and traditional woodland-shrubs (5.31%). The biggest changes in land cover occurred after 1969. Since the 1950s, the area of urbanised land in allotments has increased by 8.65%. In 2022, the area of the allotment gardens was 914.54 hectares, which represents 19.2 m2 of garden per inhabitant.