The term allotment is determined by "§ the 1 of the federal allotment law. Here also the term of the smallgardening use defines itself.

The allotment, also Schrebergarten, plot or family garden (bes. in Switzerland), mark a plant by garden properties from associations (small gardner associations) to be administered and to members leased favorably. They are to serve the recovery in nature and make possible for city dwellers the cultivation of fruit and vegetable. Today one finds in these gardens in addition, ornamental plants. Usually is a summerhouse on each property. The allotment life is regulated by the respective allotment order/statute of each association.

Allotments - the Greens of recreation regions for all

In Germany there are more than one million allotments. Collected this corresponds to a surface of more than 46 thousand hectares. Allotments are in plants summarized, green, maximally 400 square meters large plots. They serve the private use for the cultivation of fruit, vegetable and ornamental plants as well as the recovery. Allotment plants have an important function as recovery and nature area within the cities. They are used by the small gardners and their families, altogether over four million humans (to the comparison: City and Land Berlin have together approx. 3.5 million inhabitant). Thereby friends and acquaintance are not taken in account - and many humans, who go walking in allotment plants.

A piece of green in housing proximity

Allotments in the city - an important reconciliation for Menschen.Der allotment is the own piece of nature, close by. It is to be leased exclusively at persons, otherwise no possibilities be had horticulture to operate. From allotments all profit: Allotment plants are an important part "„of the green lungs "“in population centres. They bring light and air into cultivated areas, adjust the increasing sealing to our landscape and provide for a better urban climate. Allotments are green belts to the zero tariff: They are open to all to the walk. New plants exist to 40 per cent out community-green. The city Cologne would have to spend for example on the care of a green area, which corresponds to the 12,660 Cologne allotments, annually 11.65 million euro.

Lives and to live leave

Allotments are indispensable ecological islands in the city: They offer NIST possibilities for birds and are habitats for small animals such as hedgehogs or frogs, for insects and plants. The diversity of species in allotments is more largely than into public Parks.Die horticulture associations careful handling nature used up itself. Instead of chemistry the small gardners set on biological - finally they want to eat the fruit and vegetable from the garden. Technical advisers in each association help with the biological cultivation or with the selection of location-fair, resistant plant allotments retain the garden culture. In allotments after the model of old farmer gardens fruit and ornamental plant sorts are maintained and cultivated, which would come otherwise into oblivion. Allotments are clearance for children. Here they can play safely and experience nature. They experience natural connections as exciting adventure, which can taste and smell one. Thus they learn spielerisch the responsible person handling nature. Social integration is not for small gardeners and small gardners a foreign word, but is daily practiced. The allotments are in each case independently administered by their members. A at the Gartenzaun, common celebrations, common work for the entire plant"… whether family or however-educating, whether children, seniors, young people or foreign fellow citizen inside and fellow citizens - everyone is welcome.

Worth knowing

In the new Lands of the Federal Republic the so-called inventory protection is often used (for example with the permissible size of the summerhouses), since the legal regulations at that time must be considered here.

Properties usually leasable of the municipalities are called also grave country.

Small gardners call themselves mutually as "“garden friends"” (in the correspondence shortened "“Gfd"”).

History

The allotment movement decreases/goes back on Dr. Daniel God praise Moritz Schreber, a physician and a reform paedagogue made of Leipzig.

1864 based the Leipziger paedagogue and head master Dr. phil. Ernst Innozenz striking sign the "“Schreberverein"”, which it designated after his deceased colleague and fellow combatant Schreber. Striking sign leased a play meadow and put on there small flower gardens, which should be bepflanzt and maintained by school children. Soon this changed into the Obhut of parents and 1869, when the initiative covered already approximately 100 plots, gave oneself it articles of association. Equipment sheds, summerhouses and fences were established, and 1891 had been created already 14 further Schrebervereine in Leipzig. The historical allotment plant "“Dr. Schreber"” stands today under monument protection.

Allotment areas were proven in many places in Europe, in order to make for the population possible particularly in the time after the Second World War a better nutrition. Due to the housing shortage in Germany after the Second World War in allotment plants the summerhouses were often not approved extended and made livable. These illicit buildings by the city administration were usually waited and to the inhabitants lifelong right of residence were entitled. Thus it comes that to today houses still small in old allotment plants are to be found.

Literature

• Isolde Dietrich:

See also

• Summer-house
• Hobby gardner

Related links

• Search machine for small gardners and garden friends
• Article '' '' in the historical encyclopedia of Switzerland
• Federal association of German garden friends
• Laws approximately around the allotment
• German small gardner museum in Leipzig
• Regional organization Westphalia and lip of the small gardners registered association.
• Federal allotment law
• The history of the allotments in Austria
• National federation of the garden friends in Hamburg registered association.

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