EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.7
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Unofficial Consolidated Version
Ordinance of the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park
2003-12-17 (GVBl. I page 463 from 2003-12-22) last amended by Ordinance of
the amendment of the Ordinance Kellerwald-Edersee 2009-12-07 (GVBl.I page
511 from 2009-12-16)
By reason of §16 paragraph 5 sentence 1 of the Hessen nature conservation law in the version from the 16th April, 1996 (GVBl.
I S. 145), last changed by law from the 1st October, 2002 (GVBl. I S. 614), is prescribed in the behaviour with the Federal
Ministry of environment, nature conservation and reactor security and the Federal Ministry of traffic, civil engineering and
housing:
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Declaration to the National Park
(1) That in the district Waldeck-Frankenberg south of the Edersee located and in the demarcation map according to paragr. 4,
sentence 1, is declared to the National Park. It receives the label National Park "Kellerwald-Edersee". The National Park
represents woodrush-beech woodland typical of low mountains of Western Europe with a mosaic of interspersed special
locations, above all rocky-dry steep cliff, damp valley reason with near-natural streams and small nutrient poor forest meadows.
Its areas fulfill the environmental protection criteria of the Habitats Directive and Birds Directive and are planned as a part of the
European network of protected areas, "NATURA 2000". The National Park should fulfill the criteria of category II of the
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in order to reach an international classification.
(2) The Kellerwald-Edersee National Park consists:
1. of areas of the State forest sector 20 to 34, 36 to 89, 91 to 126, 128 to 156, 158 to 163, 165 to 177, 179 to 203, 206 to
213, 248 to 266, 269, 270 to 304, 306 to 309, 312 to 315, 317 to 330, 332 to 336, 338, 339, 406 to 409, 410 to 428,
430 to 447, 517, 519 to 524,
2. of part areas of the State forest sector 90, 178, 204, 205, 268, 305, 310, 311, 316, 331, 337, 429, 515, 516 und 518,
3. of plots of land of the districts:
a) Altenlotheim Plot 14 Land parcel 1/2, Plot 15 Land parcel 1 und 4,Plot 16 Land parcel 3 to 5, Plot 17 Land
parcel 5, 14 (partly), 15, Plot 19 Land parcel 4, 7, 8, Plot 20 Land parcel 1 to 3, 7 to 12, Plot 26 Land parcel 9/1,
Plot 32 Land parcel 11 to 12, Plot 41 Land parcel 1, Plot 51 Land parcel 1 to 6, 8,
b) Asel Plot 16 Land parcel 38/5, Plot 17 Land parcel 8, 12, 13/1, Plot 26 Land parcel 11/2, 29/8, 30/4, Plot 27
Land parcel 32/12, 42/4, 33/13, 34/14, 36/2, Plot 28 Land parcel 7/3,
c) Bringhausen Plot 2 Land parcel 26/2, Land parcel 78, 96/50, 98/51, 99/51, 108/51, 109/51, 135/59, 136/77, Plot
8 Land parcel 4, Plot 9 Land parcel 8, 9, 44, 65/16, 68/46, 69/19, 76/50, 96/22, 99/25, 100/25, 101/25, 102/25,
106/43, 107/43, 108/7, Plot 10 Land parcel 25, 29/5, 45/7,
Edersee Plot 1 Land parcel 13 (partly),14, 15, 17, Plot 3 Land parcel 15/1,
d) Edertal, local forest sector 801 to 803 partly and 901 partly,
e) Frankenau, State forest sector 201, Plot 9 Land parcel 2/1, 24, Plot 10 Land parcel 5,
f) Frebershausen Plot 2, Land parcel 20, Plot 15 Land parcel 1 to 7, 24, 25, 27, 28, 38 to 42, Plot 16 Land parcel
2, 6/1, 13 to 17,
g) Gellershausen Plot 2, Land parcel 26 (partly), Plot 18 Land parcel 4 to 6, 17 (partly), 18, Plot 19 Land parcel 51,
58, 72/65, Plot 20 Land parcel 4, 7, 23, 27, 28, Plot 21 Land parcel 1/2, Plot 22 Land parcel 1, 2/1,
h) Hemfurth Plot 6 Land parcel 6, 10/10, 10/11, 12/1, 16/1 (partly), 22/1, 22/3, 63/22, 64/22, 69/5,
i) Kirchlotheim Plot 2 Land parcel 104,
j) Kleinern Plot 17, Land parcel 23 and 24, Plot 22 Land parcel 1,
k) Mehlen Plot 7 Land parcel 11 to 13,
l) Schmittlotheim Plot 5 Land parcel 5/1, 7, Plot 6 Land parcel 2, Plot 11 Land parcel 25
and
m) Vöhl, local forest sector 654.
(3) The National Park has a size of about 5,738 hectares. Its position is shown on the enclosed general map in the scale 1:
60,000 (arrangements 1).
(4) The borders of the National Park arise from the demarcation map of the scale 1: 10.000 (arrangements 2). The National Park
is marked with a dashed red line. Where roads or paths form the external border of the National Park, they lie outside the
National Park. The map is stored with the Minister for forests and nature conservation. An official copy is in each case at the
National Park Authority and with the towns Frankenau, Bad Wildungen, Gemünden as well as at the municipalities Bad
Zwesten, Edertal, Gilserberg, Haina, Jesberg, Vöhl and Waldeck. The map and the official copies are archived there and can be
seen to the regularly office hours. The map is a component of this order.
(5) The National Park area is marked by official signs.
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