Fifth crop rotation

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Example of a “fifth crop rotation”: pastureland became a supermarket building site (here in a Bavarian municipality, 2009).

Fifth crop rotation , sometimes also called golden crop rotation , is a German idiom and refers to the reallocation of agriculturally used land in building land, both the resulting increase in value of the land in question and the proceeds or additional proceeds from the sale of the reallocated land at " building land prices ".

Origin and meaning

The term fifth crop rotation refers to the "four crop rotations " of the earlier four-field economy in agriculture ; he ironically describes the sale of former agricultural land that has been rededicated for building land as the “fifth crop rotation ( harvest )” of the farmer or property seller. The term “ arable land ” is often equated with “agriculturally used land”.

The starting point of the phrase is that with such reallocations of floor areas previously in the so-called building law exterior area , there is usually a significant and sometimes exorbitant increase in the value of the land affected . The land price for building land that can be achieved on the real estate market , which is usually given as the price per square meter, is usually a multiple of the price for agriculturally used land; Increases in value of several thousand to several tens of thousands percent are not uncommon.

The phrase is related to the emergence of satellite towns and settlements, which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s during the growth spurts of the emerging economic miracle society, as well as to developments in the “ suburbs ” of cities and communities. In addition, the term occurs in connection with housing and settlement construction in the course of the " urban-rural escape " and the creation of large-scale retail and commercial operations that are hardly possible within the city centers. All of these developments were and are often created " on the green meadow ", that is, on land that was not previously part of the settlement area of the city or the municipality and was mostly used for agriculture.

In a broader sense, the phrase also refers to actions and decisions by third parties that have a unilaterally beneficial effect in a comparable way. The term has a negative connotation and is used when someone, as a result of an act by a third party, can reap a considerably greater advantage or profit than is normally the case without giving anything in return.

Examples of the use of the term

  • In a publication in 1971, the working committee of the Protestant Church Building Day characterized certain urban development mistakes in mass housing construction with the formulation: "That is why the new 'social' residential areas on the outermost edge of the city have grown as a 'fifth crop rotation' on bare fields."
  • In a debate in the German Bundestag in 1983, the SPD MP Norbert Gansel exclaimed “This is the fifth crop rotation!” And used the phrase as a political catchphrase to convey the differing views of the Bundestag faction, which was part of the opposition at the time, as a political catchphrase Criticizing Greens .
  • In 1995, Der Spiegel headlined an article about the Treuhandanstalt with “Fifth Crop Rotation” and wrote, among other things, that the “ Bund ” in the planned reallocation of land “in the East” (i.e. in the former GDR ) to “million” or “ Billion farmers "would or could:

"If it becomes building land, the value rises from 50 pfennigs to up to 150 marks - connoisseurs call this 'the fifth crop rotation'."

  • In a magazine article from 1997 about the wine in the Saxon wine-growing region and in particular about the hobby winemakers in the Elbe Valley around Dresden states, inter alia: suffered "Arg has the Elbwein, came when the phylloxera and the wine put an end. After the disaster, many winemakers exchanged the drudgery on the steep slopes and the eternal fear of frost (which, by the way, struck again this year and destroyed the dream of a rich harvest) with lighter wealth: they selected the 'fifth crop rotation' and sold especially in Dresden, their properties in the best location. "
  • The German economist Dirk Löhr used the term in his technical article Die neue Landnahme - Patents as virtual property , which was published in the Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie in 2009, to describe the goals of property owners who generally influence planning processes as follows: “This is why property owners are constantly trying to to influence the planning authorities accordingly (no planning neutrality, working towards the 'fifth crop rotation'). "

literature

  • Trust. Fifth crop rotation . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1995, p. 95-96 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Schiller: From manor to large estate: Economic and social transformation processes of the rural elites in Brandenburg in the 19th century (= Heinz Reif, René Schiller [Hrsg.]: Elitenwandel in der Moderne / Elites and Modernity . Volume 3 ). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-05-007745-1 , pp. 145 , doi : 10.1524 / 9783050077451.fm ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  2. ^ Art and Church. Ed .: Evangelischer Kirchbautag (working committee), Diözesan-Kunstverein Linz, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verlage Das Example, 1971, p. 128 ( online at Google books ).
  3. ↑ Antje Vollmer : ... and defend yourself daily! Bonn - a green diary. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1984, ISBN 3-579-00570-7 , p. 55 ( online at Google books).
  4. ↑ Trust. Fifth crop rotation . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1995, p. 95-96, here p. 95 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Ulrich van Stipriaan: Not spoiled by the sun - and yet a pleasure ... In: Taschenberg news , edition 4/1997, Residenz-Verlag, Dresden, p. 10, ZDB -ID 1281950-5 ( stipvisiten.de ; accessed on 23 . November 2013).
  6. ↑ Dirk Löhr : The new land acquisition - patents as virtual property . (PDF; 342 kB) In: Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie , Volume 46, 162./163. Episode, November 2009, pp. 11-29; Retrieved June 13, 2011.