Mainau Green Charter

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The Green Charter of Mainau is a manifesto that was signed on April 20, 1961 on the occasion of the fifth Mainau Round Table by 16 people who at that time had a name in the field of nature and landscape protection in the Federal Republic of Germany. The “Charter” was initiated by Count Lennart Bernadotte and announced by Federal President Lübke , who was present at the conference.

The signatories included Konrad Buchwald , Gerhard Olschowy , Walter Rossow , Ernst Schröder , Alwin Seifert and Alfred Toepfer .

The Green Charter of the Mainau was the model of the "Green Charter of the CDU South Baden ", a comprehensive environmental strategy in 1984 by the then Government Minister Norbert Nothhelfer and the then chairman of the CDU faction in the parliament and later Prime Minister Erwin Teufel in the environmental policy of Baden -Wuerttemberg was introduced.

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The charter summarizes the demands in twelve points:

  1. a legally enforceable spatial planning for all planning levels taking into account the natural conditions;
  2. the preparation of landscape plans and green space plans in all municipalities for settlement, industrial and traffic areas;
  3. Sufficient recreational space through the provision of garden land, free access to forests, mountains, lakes and rivers and other scenic beauties, urban open space near the apartment for daily recreation, urban recreational space for the weekend and remote recreational space for holidays;
  4. securing and developing sustainable, fertile agriculture and an orderly rural settlement;
  5. increased measures to maintain and restore a healthy natural balance, in particular through soil protection, climate and water protection;
  6. the conservation and sustainable use of existing natural or man-made green;
  7. the prevention of avoidable interventions that damage the landscape, e.g. B. in settlement and industrial construction, in mining, hydraulic engineering and road construction;
  8. the reparation of unavoidable interference, in particular the re-greening of unland ;
  9. a change in the thinking of the entire population through increased public information about the importance of the landscape in town and country and the dangers it threatens;
  10. greater consideration of the natural and landscape sciences in education and training;
  11. the expansion of research for all natural habitat related disciplines;
  12. sufficient legislative measures to promote and secure a healthy living space.

In 1962, the signatories of the charter consequently also founded an association, the German Council for Land Care ( DRL for short ), which has set itself the task of putting the demands made into practice: through research, pilot projects and advice to authorities dealing with spatial planning and nature conservation deal.

In 2011, Hans-Werner Frohn published an article in the journal Study Archive Environmental History with the title 50 Years of the “Green Charter of Mainau”. A pioneering nature conservation and environmental document opened a window to modernity in Germany. - On the genesis of the “Green Charter of Mainau” .

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  1. ↑ ed. Institute for Environmental History and Regional Development V. at the University of Neubrandenburg , ISSN  0949-7366 www.iugr.net
  2. ↑ http://www.iugr.hs-nb.de/fileadmin/IUGR/Publikationen/Studienarchiv_Umweltgeschichte/Stug16_A5_ebook.pdf Volume 16, pp. 55-63