Berlin forests

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The Berlin Forests are the state forest administration of the State of Berlin . The special authority, the Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate downstream and sits in the Dahlwitzer highway in the district of Frederick Hagen of Treptow-Koepenick . Their tasks are carried out by the Berlin State Forestry Office and the Grunewald, Köpenick, Pankow and Tegel forestry offices .

Organization and tasks

With a managed area of ​​approx. 29,000  hectares (ha) of forest in Berlin and Brandenburg , the Berlin Forests are the largest urban forest administration in Germany. The authority reports to the Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection . The regulatory tasks include forest protection and hunting protection .

The Landesforstamt Berlin is responsible, among other things, for the administration of state-owned real estate, the representation of forest-related matters towards property developers, the press and public relations and the issuing of fines.

The forest areas are administered by four forest offices:

history

With the purchase of the Rieselfelder in the 1870s, the first forest areas became the property of the city of Berlin. For the time being, they were also looked after by the agricultural inspectors as part of the property management.

At the end of the 19th century, the Grunewald was opened up by road and rail connections and parts of it were cleared for the construction of residential areas, in particular the villa colony of Grunewald. In 1904 the Berliner Volksblatt printed a “declaration of protest against the destruction of the Grunewald”; In 1907 the German Conservative Electoral Association submitted a petition to the Prussian House of Representatives , in which it was demanded that "the further sale and destruction of forests near Berlin must be stopped". In 1911 the urban districts of Berlin , Charlottenburg , Schöneberg , Rixdorf , Wilmersdorf , Lichtenberg and Spandau as well as the districts of Teltow and Niederbarnim founded the Greater Berlin Association for the acquisition of larger areas that were to be preserved as forests. After lengthy negotiations, the Zweckverband bought 10,000 hectares of forest in 1915 for 50 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 151 million euros). This made the city of Berlin the second largest forest owner among Germany's cities. With the purchase, it was agreed in the permanent forest contract that the land could neither be built on nor resold and that the Berliners would have to be permanently available as a local recreation area .

With the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, the city took over the forest acquired by the Zweckverband and the forest ownership of the incorporated cities, rural communities and manor districts. The supervision was initially the responsibility of the deputation for goods and forests , later the deputation for forests . It was not until 1937 that the eight forest offices of the same size, Friedrichshagen , Köpenick , Grunewald , Düppel , Spandau, Tegel , Buch and Lanke, were formed. After the Second World War, the main forest office and the individual forest offices were subordinate to the municipal department for traffic and operations . From 1951 they were subordinate to the economic administration. In 1957 the main forest office became the state forest office . In 1981 the Berlin Forests were subordinated to the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection .

At the beginning of 2004, the eight forest offices were merged into four offices, with 29 district foresters:

  • Tegel : Like Tegel (old) plus Stolpe district
  • Grunewald : unchanged
  • Köpenick : Merger of the old forestry offices Friedrichshagen and Treptow
  • Pankow : Merging of the old forest offices Buch (without Stolpe) and Lanke

Web links

Commons : Berliner Forsten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The Grunewald Forestry Office - the green south-west of Berlin . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on May 31, 2017.
  2. ^ The Köpenick Forestry Office . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on May 31, 2017.
  3. The Pankow Forestry Office - the gateway to Barnim . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on May 31, 2017.
  4. ^ The Tegel Forestry Office . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on May 31, 2017.
  5. ^ Klaus Dettmer: The Berlin State Archive and its holdings . 2nd Edition. Self-published by the Berlin State Archives, Berlin 1992, p. 172.
  6. ( History of the development of the Berlin forests) Current structure of the Berlin forests , Digital Environmental Atlas Berlin, Age and Stock Structure of Forests , 2005 edition