diff --git a/Modules/CoreCmdApps/CMakeLists.txt b/Modules/CoreCmdApps/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..12d751c887
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/CoreCmdApps/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+option(BUILD_CoreCmdApps "Build command-line apps of the MitkCore module" OFF)
+
+if(BUILD_CoreCmdApps OR MITK_BUILD_ALL_APPS)
+  mitkFunctionCreateCommandLineApp(NAME FileConverter)
+  mitkFunctionCreateCommandLineApp(NAME ImageTypeConverter)
+  mitkFunctionCreateCommandLineApp(NAME RectifyImage)
+endif()
diff --git a/Modules/BasicImageProcessing/MiniApps/FileConverter.cpp b/Modules/CoreCmdApps/FileConverter.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from Modules/BasicImageProcessing/MiniApps/FileConverter.cpp
rename to Modules/CoreCmdApps/FileConverter.cpp
diff --git a/Modules/BasicImageProcessing/MiniApps/ImageTypeConverter.cpp b/Modules/CoreCmdApps/ImageTypeConverter.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from Modules/BasicImageProcessing/MiniApps/ImageTypeConverter.cpp
rename to Modules/CoreCmdApps/ImageTypeConverter.cpp
diff --git a/Modules/BasicImageProcessing/MiniApps/RectifyImage.cpp b/Modules/CoreCmdApps/RectifyImage.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from Modules/BasicImageProcessing/MiniApps/RectifyImage.cpp
rename to Modules/CoreCmdApps/RectifyImage.cpp
diff --git a/Modules/ModuleList.cmake b/Modules/ModuleList.cmake
index 4daa70f838..d65ee8faa4 100644
--- a/Modules/ModuleList.cmake
+++ b/Modules/ModuleList.cmake
@@ -1,85 +1,86 @@
 # The entries in the mitk_modules list must be
 # ordered according to their dependencies.
 
 set(MITK_MODULES
   Core
   CommandLine
+  CoreCmdApps
   AppUtil
   LegacyIO
   DataTypesExt
   Annotation
   LegacyGL
   AlgorithmsExt
   MapperExt
   DICOMReader
   DICOMReaderServices
   DICOMQI
   DICOMTesting
   SceneSerializationBase
   PlanarFigure
   ImageDenoising
   ImageExtraction
   SceneSerialization
   Gizmo
   GraphAlgorithms
   Multilabel
   Chart
   ImageStatistics
   ContourModel
   SurfaceInterpolation
   Segmentation
   QtWidgets
   QtWidgetsExt
   ImageStatisticsUI
   SegmentationUI
   MatchPointRegistration
   MatchPointRegistrationUI
   Classification
   OpenIGTLink
   IGTBase
   IGT
   CameraCalibration
   OpenCL
   OpenCVVideoSupport
   QtOverlays
   ToFHardware
   ToFProcessing
   ToFUI
   PhotoacousticsHardware
   PhotoacousticsAlgorithms
   PhotoacousticsLib
   US
   USUI
   DicomUI
   Remeshing
   Python
   QtPython
   Persistence
   OpenIGTLinkUI
   IGTUI
   DicomRT
   RTUI
   IOExt
   XNAT
   TubeGraph
   BiophotonicsHardware
   BoundingShape
   RenderWindowManager
   RenderWindowManagerUI
   SemanticRelations
   SemanticRelationsUI
   CEST
   BasicImageProcessing
   ModelFit
   ModelFitUI
   Pharmacokinetics
   PharmacokineticsUI
   DICOMPM
   REST
   RESTService
   DICOMweb
 )
 
 if(MITK_ENABLE_PIC_READER)
   list(APPEND MITK_MODULES IpPicSupportIO)
 endif()