Regional park Krämer Forst
The regional park Krämer Forst occupies the area northwest of Berlin between the development axes Berlin-Nauen and Berlin-Oranienburg.
The regional park largely coincides with the Glien region (or Glin, from Elbslawisch glina = clay), which comprises the ground moraine plate Ländchen Glien and the upstream Luchland (Havelländisches Luch and Rhinluch) on the rivers Rhin , Havel and Muhre .
The regional park is named after the Krämer , a large forest area in the heart of the Glien, which is crossed by the Alte Hamburger Poststraße. Around the shopkeeper, like a string of pearls, there are more than a dozen villages, the so-called village wreath.
Through the Berliner Forst Spandau in the north of the Berlin district of the same name, the area of activity of the regional park extends from the Brandenburg districts Havelland and Oberhavel into the state of Berlin. The central municipalities in the regional park are Schönwalde-Glien (Havelland district) and Oberkrämer (Oberhavel district). The activities of the regional park carried out by municipalities, private individuals, associations and companies continue to extend to the municipality of Leegebruch , the cities of Velten and Hennigsdorf as well as districts of the cities of Oranienburg (especially Germendorf), Kremmen , Fehrbellin (especially Linum) and Nauen as well as the municipality of Brieselang .
The Promotion Association of the Regional Park Krämer Forst, founded in 1997, has around 50 members and is the main sponsor of the regional park. The seat of the friends' association is in the Schönwalde-Siedlung district of the Schönwalde-Glien community, and a permanent office is operated in the Schwante district of the Oberkrämer community.
The regional parks in Brandenburg and Berlin were created on the initiative of the joint state planning of both countries. Unlike the German national and nature parks, the regional nature parks in France, Parcs naturels régionaux de France, and Italy, I Parchi Regionali in Italia, or the regional parks of the Republic of Lithuania, Lietuvos regioniniai parkai, they are not protected areas.
Rather, a development should take place in them on a voluntary basis, which is supported by the people in the region and which ultimately benefits them. The main goals of regional park development are:
- Securing and developing open spaces in the metropolitan area,
- Consolidation of regional identity and social stability,
- Promoting independent economic development,
- Securing and developing the region as a recreational area.
With this in mind, the regional park Krämer Forst was launched as one of eight regional parks in 1995 in the regional development plan for the closer integration of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin.
literature
- Ministry of Agriculture, Environmental Protection and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg / Senate Department for Urban Development of the State of Berlin (ed.): Regional parks in Brandenburg and Berlin , Potsdam 2001 pp. 16–23