EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.5
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
develop tourism as far as this is compatible with the protective aim generally, to shape the
environment and to allow research.
(1a) Major elements of the National
Park are natural habitats and species of common interest according to Appendices I and II of
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the maintenance of natural habitats and wild
animals and plants (EC Official Journal no. L 206 p. 7) in the version currently valid. With
regard to the implementation of the Directive 92/43/EEC, the National Park is of particular
significance for
1.
the following habitats:
mixed forests on gorges and hillsides, riverside woodland with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus
excelsior (priority habitats), woodrush beech forest, woodruff beech forest, bedstraw-oakhornbeam
forest, natural lime-dry grassland and associated scrub stages, plus
2.
the following species:
yellow-bellied toad, crested newt, marsh fritillary, Bechstein's bat, greater mouse-eared bat.
The aim of the classification of this region as a National Park is also to ensure a favourable
state of maintenance for the types of habitat and species listed in sentence 2.
(2) In particular, the National Park shall serve to develop and improve the living and working
conditions of the people living in its environs and to allow local industry and tourism, and
shall help to maintain in its present form the management of the forest using a selection
system in the natural forest reserves, for which agreements have been concluded between
the private and local authority forest owners in the Hainich region and the Free State of
Thuringia.
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Protected Zones
(1) The area of the National Park is divided into two protective zones. Their boundaries are
shown in the map described in § 2. § 2 sentence 3 applies accordingly. The areas belonging
to Protected Zone 1 are shown hatched in blue. All the other areas in the National Park
belong to Protected Zone 2. The development possibilities are regulated in the Care and
Development Plan.
(2) In Protected Zone 1, nature and the landscape are left to develop naturally, unless
otherwise stated in the Care and Development Plan according to § 7.
(3) The State Government is authorised to change the existing size and layout of the
protected zones through a statutory order in agreement with the Environmental Committee of
the State Parliament to realise the protection aim described in § 3. § 21 of the Thuringian
Nature Protection Act (ThurNatPA) of 28 January 1993 (Legal Gazette p. 57) in the version
valid at the time shall apply accordingly.
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