Railway agriculture
The Bahn-Landwirtschaft (BLw) is an operational social institution of the Deutsche Bahn and the federal railway assets . It is the main association that provides independent districts with areas for leasing allotment gardens .
The social welfare work of Deutsche Bahn AG and its successor organization, the Federal Railroad Fund, owns areas that are mostly located in the immediate vicinity of the railroad and are not required for rail operations. These areas are leased by the districts to those interested in allotment gardening.
history
From the second half of the 19th century, the land required for the construction of the railway was acquired, but not fully utilized by the railway administrations. The unused areas to the right and left of the tracks, initially only tolerated by the railway administration, were used and built up by the railway employees as garden areas. The areas were later converted into regular leasehold areas.
structure
The registered association for railway agriculture was divided into originally 16 and today only 14 districts. Main association and districts are legally independent associations, with the districts being members of the main association. The allotment garden tenants are association members of the districts.
The districts are divided into legally not independent sub-districts. The non-independence results from the district's statutes, in which the allotment garden colonies are encouraged to elect a sub-district executive. The voluntary sub-committee organizes all matters of the sub-district. This construction of the "association within the association" enables independent regulation of the allotment gardening (e.g. new leases, administration of income and expenses) on site.
publication
- Eisenbahn-Farmer , monthly trade journal for members of the rail industry.
- Wolfgang Kunz, For the People, Chronicle of Railway Agriculture, 1910–2010, 2010
Web links
Sub-district Cologne 061 www.kleingarten-koeln.de
Individual evidence
- ^ History of railway agriculture. Retrieved October 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Berlin, Dresden, Erfurt, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Halle, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Schwerin and Stuttgart. Source: districts