EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.4
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Ordinance regulating the designation
of nature conservation areas within an
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
with the general designation Biosphere
Reservation Schorfheide-Chorin
12 September 1990
In accordance with art.6 § 6 No.1 of the Environmental Framework Law from 29 June 1990
(GBJ.1 No. 42 p. 649) in connection with §§ 12, 13 and 15 of the Federal Nature
Conservation Act, it is prescribed that:
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Stipulation
(1) The landscapes north of the Eberswalde glacial valleys indicated in § 2 are prescribed as
a nature conservation area and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
(2) The entire area is designated as the »Biosphere Reservation Schorfheide-Chorin.
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Expanse and Boundary
(1) the Biosphere reservation Scchorfheide-Chorin comprises the following landscape areas:
1. the Chorin end moraine landscape with lake Parstein and the Grumsin Forest,
2. the Niederoderbruch and the Neuenhagen Oder Island,
3. the Britz plane,
4. the Werbellin-Joachimsthal moraine landscape,
5. the Schorfheide,
6. the Poratz ground and end moraine landscapes,
7. the ground and end moraine landscapes around Melzow and Greiffenberg
8. the arable landscape Gerswalde - Stegelitz,
9. the Templin lake district
(2) The biosphere reservation “Schorfheide-Chorin” as outlined in the map of the scale
1: 50 000 comprises total reservations (core areas), nature conservation areas, cultural
landscapes and devastated (seriously damaged) landscapes. The biosphere reservation
has the following borders:
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