EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.2
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Objective IV: Protection of the proposed World Heritage
Site
All component parts are subject to strict obligations concerning the protection, preservation,
and improvement of the ecological conditions in the natural beech forests/primeval beech
forests. The protection concepts include
Renunciation of any utilisation including agriculture, silviculture, hunting, and fishery.
No digging.
Education, recreation, and tourism are subject to strict obligations taking account of
the purpose of protection of the areas.
The areas are almost entirely publicly owned.
The boundaries of the five component parts were established on ecological criteria and
in due consideration of representativeness and completeness. The nomination dossier
gives a summary of how they have been derived (cf. chapter 3d); authoritative aspects
were the status of conservation, ability to develop, and the biologic-ecologic inventory
as well as the areas' integration into the landscape-ecological context.
Measure 1: Taking account of the World Heritage site in all planning projects
The World Heritage site will be taken account of in all future planning projects at all
administrative levels to ensure that no decisions and stipulations are made beforehand
that would run contrary to the protection and preservation of the World Heritage site.
Measure 2: Regular monitoring of the borders
The areas of the proposed World Heritage territories and the buffer zones are regularly
inspected and checked by staff members of the protected area administration to make
sure the outstanding universal value (OUV) and integrity are appropriately protected
and no measures are brought to bear that may jeopardise the OUV or integrity.
Measure 3: Signage
The World Heritage site will be provided with sufficient signage, in particular in zones
seeing large numbers of visitor as well as in places where other modes of use, e.g.
agriculture abut on the buffer zone, for the purpose of raising awareness and furnish
information. This includes both educational advertising of the OUV and the purpose of
the nomination as well as the resulting behavioural requirements.
Measure 4: Sustainable organisation of the ownership structure in the Grumsin
component part
The ownership structure is to be permanently secured in all nominated component
parts. The Grumsin component part will see the relocation and acquisition activities
being continued with the aim of transferring the entire area to public ownership or to the
Kulturlandschaft Uckermark e.V. association until 2020.
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