Regional Association of Bavarian Allotment Gardeners
| Regional Association of Bavarian Allotment Gardeners (LBK) |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | September 4, 1921 |
| Seat | Munich |
| purpose | Promotion of allotment gardens in Bavaria |
| Chair | Norbert Wolff |
| Members | 170 (2020) |
| Website | www.lbk.de |
The regional association of Bavarian allotment gardeners e. V. (LBK) is the umbrella organization of the Bavarian allotment garden associations and clubs . It is based in Munich and is a member of the Bundesverband Deutscher Gartenfreunde e. V.
The regional association has around 48,300 members in 179 associations and clubs. There are allotment gardens in almost all larger Bavarian cities and municipalities. The Bavarian allotment gardeners cultivate an area of around 20 million square meters, that is 2,000 hectares.
Goal and purpose of the association
Aim and purpose of the Association of Bavarian Allotment Gardeners e. V. is the promotion of allotment gardening in Bavaria. He strives to merge all allotment gardeners in Bavaria into non-profit and legally competent associations. The association is neither politically nor denominationally bound.
tasks
The tasks of the LBK include the promotion of measures for the creation and maintenance of public green spaces, the awakening and intensification of the interest of the population and especially the youth in the allotment garden as well as the implementation of all measures that ensure that public green spaces and allotment gardens are for the benefit of the general public serve. Furthermore, it offers advice and the granting of legal protection in the creation of new permanent allotment gardens and to prevent the dismantling of existing ones, advises its member associations so that they pursue exclusively charitable goals, and offers insurance coverage.
Services
The association advises its member associations on technical, legal and club issues as well as on the planning of new plants, plant extensions and biotopes. He has developed binding guidelines for the assessment of gardens. In order to protect the members, liability insurance is included in the annual fee; when taking out other insurance policies, members can receive favorable conditions. The LBK publishes the specialist journal Kleingartenmagazin, in whose association section it offers member associations the opportunity to announce news and dates. It offers its member associations training courses on all important topics relating to allotment gardens as well as brochures, information sheets and slide series on allotment garden issues. Its district conferences serve as a forum for current presentations and the exchange of information. As a representative of the interests of the Bavarian allotment garden associations, the LBK lobbies and offers them a solidarity community.
Significance of allotment gardens from the point of view of the LBK
The LBK emphasizes the great importance of the allotment gardens for the state and the municipality as a basis of its work.
Social importance
In the social area, the LBK emphasizes the importance for lower-income population groups as a source of self-harvested fruit and vegetables. Furthermore, an allotment offers compensation for deficits in the living area as well as in professional life, the latter through the possibility of developing one's personality. It promotes communication and community experience of old and young, offers recreational opportunities for all citizens in densely populated residential areas and offers a bond with the ground.
Socio-educational importance
In the social pedagogical field it means a shielded play area for children and enables them to learn with nature.
Medical and health-political significance
The LBK cites exercise and physical balance outdoors as well as the supply of fresh, untreated fruit and vegetables as direct effects in the medical and health policy area. In addition, there would be indirect effects through the prevention of psychosomatic illnesses due to the compensation of deficits in professional and living life as well as mental and physical relaxation and thus re-establishment of mental balance.
Ecological and urban sanitation importance
In the ecological and urban hygiene area, the LBK emphasizes the climate function of allotment gardens with regard to temperature compensation and air exchange as well as the importance for immission control through the absorption of pollutants and noise. He also emphasizes their importance for the water balance, for securing valuable soil resources, nature and landscape protection, as habitats for plants and animals and, as an indirect effect, the reduction of the negative effects of other leisure activities.
Economical meaning
According to the LBK, the economic importance of allotment gardens is that they enable savings in the healthcare system, higher productivity in working life and savings compared to publicly maintained green spaces through the allotment gardeners' own efforts. In the long term, allotment gardens would offer valuable soil reserves in times of crisis.
history
From 1918 to 1919, the Augsburg allotment gardeners joined the Central Association of German Workers' Gardens and Allotment Gardens, which was founded in 1909, and founded the regional association of Bavarian allotment gardeners. The chairman of this regional association asked the other Bavarian cities to join the central association. As a result of the troubled times at that time, there was no possibility of a merger. It was not until the union of the Augsburg, Munich and Nuremberg allotment gardeners on September 4, 1921 in Nuremberg that the rise of the Bavarian allotment gardeners' association began. In 1931 the Bavarian allotment gardeners' association had 17,270 members. The membership increased to 57,000 by 1950 and decreased to 34,000 by 1967. Today the almost 180 member associations that are organized in the regional association of Bavarian allotment gardeners represent around 48,000 families.
Board of Directors and Association Committee
The highest organ is the Association Day as a delegates' assembly that takes place every four years in the sense of the BGB. The board of directors, which consists of the chairman and eight other members, is elected for a period of four years by the association day and remains in office until the new election. He represents the regional association in and out of court. Its members have sole power of representation, whereby each board member is bound by the resolutions of the Association Day, the Association Committee and the Board of Directors. The third body of the LBK is the association committee, which consists of the board of directors and 14 assessors. It is formed to advise and take decisions on particularly important association political issues. The association committee is convened by the board and meets twice a year. It must be called to special meetings if the executive board so decides or if more than a third of the members of the association committee so request. In addition to the statutory functions, the association also assigns the members of the association committee, which is occupied according to the seven Bavarian districts, the task of being available to members on site as contact persons.
literature
- Allotment garden magazine (publisher: Landesverband Bayerischer Kleingärtner e.V., Association of Allotment Gardeners Baden-Württemberg e.V., Landesverband Rheinland der Gartenfreunde e.V., Verlag mk publishing GmbH)
- LBK-Flyer: Our work for the allotment garden habitat (2007)
- Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning -BBR-, Bonn (publisher); Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development -BMVBS-, Berlin (publisher): Urban planning, ecological and social significance of allotment gardens
- Martin Rist, Angelika Feiner: "Das Schrebergarten-Buch", BLV, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8354-0755-8
- Federal Allotment Garden Act
- Expert advisor (organ of the Federal Association of German Gardening Friends, Verlag W. Wächter GmbH)