diff --git a/Applications/CLI/ogs.cpp b/Applications/CLI/ogs.cpp
index f2d0610f694637fab5553a7e0285c598d7d28bdb..ae7f30920d944341c9377f60dd4b5055ab1805ca 100644
--- a/Applications/CLI/ogs.cpp
+++ b/Applications/CLI/ogs.cpp
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
  */
 
 #include <boost/property_tree/ptree.hpp>
-#include <boost/property_tree/xml_parser.hpp>
 
 #ifdef USE_MPI
 #include <mpi.h>
@@ -27,6 +26,7 @@
 // BaseLib
 #include "BaseLib/BuildInfo.h"
 #include "BaseLib/FileTools.h"
+#include "BaseLib/ConfigTree.h"
 
 #include "Applications/ApplicationsLib/LinearSolverLibrarySetup.h"
 #include "Applications/ApplicationsLib/LogogSetup.h"
@@ -108,13 +108,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	    argc, argv);
 
 	// Project's configuration
-	ConfigTree project_config;
-
-	read_xml(project_arg.getValue(), project_config,
-			boost::property_tree::xml_parser::no_comments
-			 | boost::property_tree::xml_parser::trim_whitespace);
-	DBUG("Project configuration from file \'%s\' read.",
-		project_arg.getValue().c_str());
+	ConfigTree project_config =
+	    BaseLib::read_xml_config(project_arg.getValue());
 
 
 	project_config = project_config.get_child("OpenGeoSysProject");
diff --git a/BaseLib/ConfigTree.cpp b/BaseLib/ConfigTree.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82902a4b7bb63d09ae2fa3ca222773b52a6e1520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BaseLib/ConfigTree.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/**
+ * \copyright
+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2015, OpenGeoSys Community (http://www.opengeosys.org)
+ *            Distributed under a Modified BSD License.
+ *              See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or
+ *              http://www.opengeosys.org/project/license
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "ConfigTree.h"
+
+#include <boost/property_tree/ptree.hpp>
+#include <boost/property_tree/xml_parser.hpp>
+
+#include <logog/include/logog.hpp>
+
+namespace BaseLib
+{
+boost::property_tree::ptree read_xml_config(boost::filesystem::path const& path)
+{
+	boost::property_tree::ptree ptree;
+	read_xml(path.string(), ptree,
+	         boost::property_tree::xml_parser::no_comments |
+	             boost::property_tree::xml_parser::trim_whitespace);
+
+	DBUG("Project configuration from file \'%s\' read.",
+	     path.string().c_str());
+
+	return ptree;
+}
+}
diff --git a/BaseLib/ConfigTree.h b/BaseLib/ConfigTree.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec8efcf72ad414b7e63a8475501c17e8f2668f95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BaseLib/ConfigTree.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/**
+ * \copyright
+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2015, OpenGeoSys Community (http://www.opengeosys.org)
+ *            Distributed under a Modified BSD License.
+ *              See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or
+ *              http://www.opengeosys.org/project/license
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef BASELIB_CONFIGTREE_H_
+#define BASELIB_CONFIGTREE_H_
+
+#include <boost/property_tree/ptree_fwd.hpp>
+#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
+
+namespace BaseLib
+{
+
+boost::property_tree::ptree read_xml_config(
+    boost::filesystem::path const& path);
+}
+
+#endif  // BASELIB_CONFIGTREE_H_