Corporate forest

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In a corporate forest is forest owned by public bodies such as municipalities and cities (then as a communal forest , urban forest , community forest or as prospective forest called), public foundations and purpose associations or universities (then often university forest called) .

Germany

The forest in Germany covers 11.4 million hectares . Around 2.2 million hectares or 19.4 percent of this are corporate forests. Other forms of forest ownership in Germany are the state forest (29.0 percent of the German forest area is state forest of the federal states, 3.5 percent is state forest of the federal government) and private forest (48.0 percent).

Corporate forest is defined in Germany according to Section 3 (2) of the Federal Forest Act (BWaldG) as follows: Forest wholly owned by municipalities, municipal associations, special purpose associations and other public corporations. The forest is excluded from religious communities and their institutions, as well as from real associations, Hauberggenossenschaften, market cooperatives, farmsteads and similar communities (community forests), as far as it is not regarded as a corporate forest according to state law.

Consequently, according to the federal framework law, the forest is owned by Kirchen's private forest, although these are largely public corporations .

The special features of corporate forests are regulated in the state forest laws. So is z. B. in Saxony-Anhalt stipulates that corporate forest serves the common good to a particular degree, that the conservation and sustainable management of the forest as an overall resource must be guaranteed in the economic objectives and that the utility, protective and recreational functions form a unit and corporate forest according to ecological and economic criteria Needs to be managed. In Saxony , the regulations for corporate forests also apply to church forests.

The number of corporate forests in Germany is estimated at 60,000, with an average farm size of 38 hectares. The monastery chamber of Hanover has the largest German corporate forest with 24,400 hectares. The largest communal forest owner is the city of Brilon with 7,750 hectares of forest.

Liechtenstein

In Liechtenstein , with 6,865 hectares, around 43 percent of the country's area is covered with forest. Around 92 percent of this is owned by the public sector : 43 percent is owned by municipalities, 30 percent is owned by citizens' cooperatives and 19 percent is owned by alpine cooperatives.

Austria

In Austria there are 78,789 hectares of community forests (property forest) (as of 2013). According to the cadastral evaluations, the communal forests comprise only 2.2 percent of the total Austrian forest area.

Poland

The forests of Poland cover 9,163,800 hectares and thus cover 29.3 percent of the country's area. Corporate forests are only 0.9 percent of the Polish forest area.

Switzerland

In Switzerland , there is no strict distinction between corporate forests and state forests, but rather the general public-sector forest . Around 3,300 forest owners under public law manage 884,302 hectares of forest, 70 percent of the total forest area in Switzerland. The political municipalities account for 351,039 hectares of forest , 278,312 hectares for the civic communities , 101,975 hectares for cooperation and cooperatives, 50,713 hectares for the cantons , 8,759 hectares for the federal government and 93,495 hectares for other, mixed, public forest areas.

literature

  • Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (Ed.): The forest in Germany - selected results of the third national forest inventory. Berlin 2014. ( Online version ; PDF; 5 MB)
  • Karl-Reinhard Volz : Who actually owns the forest? In: The citizen in the state. (= The German forest ). 1/2001, p. 51ff. ( Online version ; PDF; 3.6 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interested Forestry Schwalingen ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Results database of the Third National Forest Inventory (2012) . Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ § 3 of the Federal Forest Act
  4. ↑ State Forest Act Saxony-Anhalt § 13 State forest and corporate forest
  5. ^ Forest Act for the Free State of Saxony § 4 Kirchenwald
  6. ^ H. Polley, P. Hennig: Forest ownership in the mirror of the national forest inventory. In: AFZ-The forest. 6/2015
  7. ^ Forestry Brilon . Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  8. ^ Office for Forests, Nature and Landscape of the Principality of Liechtenstein: Landeswaldinventar 2012 . Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  9. ^ Ministry for an Austria worth living in (ed.): Sustainable forest management in Austria - data collection on Austrian forests. February, as of 2015, table 1.1 online version ( memento from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  10. ^ Polish State Forests: The state forests in figures 2013. S. 5. Accessed October 22, 2015.
  11. ↑ Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN, ed.): Forest Report 2015. p. 100 Page no longer available , search in web archives: online version . Retrieved October 21, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bafu.admin.ch