EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.5
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
0. Introduction
In accordance with the specifications of the Brandenburg Nature Conservation Act
(BbgNatSchG), the State Office for Large Conservation Areas is to draft a maintenance and
development plan within three years of the designation of the conservation area ordinance of
a large conservation area.
The goal of the maintenance and development plan in the large conservation area is to
present an action plan proposing an approach to realizing the conservation aims as outlined
in the conservation ordinance. The maintenance and development plans are primarily
addressed to the various land-uses and those responsible for it, e.g. the forestry, agricultural
and fishery and hydrological industries. In their capacity as regionally significant planning
authorities, the federal state of Brandenburg, the counties and districts are also important
target groups in the realization of this action plan.
The draft maintenance and development plan for the Biosphere Reservation Schorfheide-
Chorin has been available since 1997. Due to the relatively detailed nature of the population
analysis across an area of almost 130,000 ha, this plan consists of approx. 1,800 pages,
including the additional volumes of commentary.
The core of the maintenance and development plan is a comprehensive set of maps. The
most important cartographic working-base is the blanket-coverage biotope type mapping in
the scale 1:10 000 developed for this plan. An abundance of population and evaluation
maps covering various thematic areas in varying scales is also presented.
A prioritization process resulted in the generation of twelve concrete plans presented in the
maps of the "maintenance and development goals" for 12 selected landscape areas in the
scale 1:25000. In subsequent years, this was gradually extended to many of the remaining
landscape areas.
For the maintenance and development plan to complete its task, it must publish its aims and
contents to a wider public. To this end, a summary was produced in 1997.
After 1997, the maintenance and development plan was processed further to include
subareas. A comprehensive update was commissioned in 2009 within the scope of the
habitats directive planning procedure. The maintenance and development plan will be
available in 2012.
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