EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Footnotes
*) § 2 para. 4 amended by the Decree of 20 November 1992
**) The map attached to the Decree is not shown for technical reasons.
§ 3
Protection Aim
(1) The purpose of the designation of the area as a national park is as follows:
1. to maintain the diversity, the special character and outstanding beauty of this chalk
landscape, which is unique in Europe, with its characteristic surface forms (glacially
overturned chalk horst, terminal moraine ridges, dead ice and karst hollows, young
erosion valleys, active and inactive chalk and moraine cliffs, the largest natural
geological outcrop in the North German lowlands) and a corresponding mosaic of
sites and vegetation in a natural state,
2. to ensure that the processes of nature run in a way that is largely undisturbed by
human intervention over a large area (coastal dynamics including coastal
submarine processes, water balance and fenland genesis, forest development),
3. to regenerate natural forests, including their natural dynamics, in very different
locations over a large area (chalk and moraine beech forests on sites of varying
moisture and trophic levels, brushwoods at orogenous forest boundary sites on the
chalk cliff coast, alder and alder-ash forests in spring hollows and stream valleys,
precious hardwood-rich maple forests at chalk cliffs),
4. to regenerate site-related spring, cauldron and flow fens,
5. to maintain the landscape-specific natural diversity of the flora and fauna.
(2) No commercial use is intended in the national park; however, its aim is to serve to
improve the structure of the adjoining areas.
§ 4
Protected zones
(1) The area of the Jasmund National Park is divided into Protected Zones I, II and III.
(2) Protected Zone I (core zone) covers the following areas:
1. the entire former Jasmund Nature Conservation Area (NCA) except for the
softwood-covered areas and residential areas,
2. all areas located outside the former NCA covered with old beech wood, plus
fenlands and water bodies,
3. the Baltic as far as the border described in § 2.
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