Geotope cadastre
Geotope cadastre are used to record geotopes . They serve as a technical basis for measures for the conservation and maintenance of geotopes in nature conservation and state planning .
Situation in Germany
Possible protective measures are:
- Protection as a natural monument , nature reserve or landscape protection area via the landscape law of the federal state
- as important find points of fossils the protection as ground monument according to the monument protection law of the federal state
- For soils that are particularly worthy of protection, protection according to the Federal Soil Protection Act and Land Protection Act of the federal state.
Examples
- Bavaria : The cadastre was set up by the Bavarian State Geological Office since around 1985 and then continued by the State Office for the Environment. It covers around 3400 geotopes.
- North Rhine-Westphalia : the North Rhine-Westphalia geotope caster is managed by the geological service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and documents around 4,000 geotopes.
- Saxony : In 1927, the most important geological outcrops were registered in Saxony. In 1979 the book "The geological natural monuments in the districts of Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig" was published by H. Prescher. This listing was the processing basis for the geotope protection in Saxony after 1990. This led to the development of the geotope cadastre in Saxony with approx. a.