Tree monument
A tree monument is a tree as a natural monument in the context of tree protection .
On the concept of the tree monument
A monument individual trees or groups of trees can be explained, which have a specific growth and a special appearance or have an unusually old age , in the countryside protrude ( Solitaire , landmark ) or site-image formative are showing a culturally and historically significant place as former assembly or Mark places of court ( judicial linden tree), represent memorials for a historical event ( double oak , exulant linden trees), or form an ensemble with another cultural monument such as churches and chapels , fountains and springs, or corridor and road crosses . Trees or groups of trees that represent a botanical-ecological specialty in their location are also designated as monuments. In addition, local authorities - mostly the municipalities - also create their own tree protection statutes for their area , usually not property-related protection, but principally according to the age or trunk diameter of a tree.
Individual trees or groups of fewer trees make up the majority of all natural monuments across Europe. With their immediate surroundings (such as bushes or grassland, bodies of water and wetlands), trees are also grouped into small-scale landscape protection areas or protected parts of the landscape with the tree as the leading object. Trees in gardens and parks are usually grouped together to form a garden monument , or they come under a different ensemble of architectural monuments.
National
The exact definitions and legal bases vary from country to country.
- In Germany, Article 28 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act and the State Nature Conservation Act apply to such a natural monument .
- In Austria, individual trees are also mostly designated as natural monuments or protected natural structures / natural monuments of local importance / local natural monuments on the basis of the nature conservation regulations of the federal states . A special feature is the protection instrument of the Tree Protection Ordinance of the City of Salzburg , which generally places trees of a certain age / diameter under protection, in other cities there are more general provisions on urban green areas (e.g. protected area forest and meadow belt and park protection area in Vienna, protected green area in Carinthia )
- In the Czech Republic , the independent category Památný strom ('natural monument tree, monument tree') is based on § 46 Památné stromy a jejich ochranná pásma para. 1 of the Nature and Landscape Protection Act 114/1992 Sb. The aim is special protection around the tree receive. They are designated by the Czech Agency for Nature and Landscape Protection, there are around 25,000 monument trees in the Czech Republic.
See also
- Distinctive and old tree specimens (compilation of examples)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Kirschner: Living millennial witnesses: Tree monuments in the Czech Republic → The protection of trees in the present. In: radio.cz> section «Society Forum». Český rozhlas, December 20, 2007, accessed on August 13, 2011 .
- ↑ Trees and their protection, natural monument trees in the region. In: Turistický portál> German> For visitors to the region> Nature> Natural monument trees. Karlovy Vary Region, accessed August 13, 2011 (Czech: Stromy, jejich ochrana, památné stromy kraje ).