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UNESCO World Heritage Site: District submits documents in February 

2021-01-07T18:58:38.246Z


Alpine pastures, humpback meadows and littered meadows in the Murnauer Moos: With the subtleties of small-scale agriculture, the region is applying for the title of World Heritage Site.


Alpine pastures, humpback meadows and littered meadows in the Murnauer Moos: With the subtleties of small-scale agriculture, the region is applying for the title of World Heritage Site.

Only numbers can express the labyrinth through which the district rummages for this coveted title: world cultural heritage.

The district office and a committee of experts have been preparing the region's application for seven years.

District Administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters) conducted around 30 on-site discussions.

He visited Riegsee, Saulgrub, Mittenwald, and drove to practically every village.

Now the template is ready, which not only contains graphics, photos and maps, but also the distillate of the countless wishes of concerned farmers.

It has become 1400 pages with a lot of text.

But it doesn't get any smaller if the region actually wants to become Germany's 47th World Heritage Site.

Peter Strohwasser, the head of the Lower Nature Conservation Authority, uploaded the documents to the Internet.

Anyone can submit additional change requests until January 31, 2021.

After that, the phase towards which the circle has been working since 2011 actually begins.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen would like to give its many alpine pastures, the humpback meadows, the litter meadows in the Murnauer Moos, but much more their management and the small-scale agriculture with the seal of UNESCO.

On the one hand this has to do with maintaining tradition, but on the other hand it is also a universal key that opens doors to subsidies, for example.

"We have to stand out from large-scale agriculture," emphasizes District Administrator Speer.

You cannot compete with East Germany and its farms with several hundred cows.

We have to stand out from large-scale agriculture

District Administrator Anton Speer

Speer and his team have made their way through a jungle full of fears and worries from farmers who fear a massive influx of tourists.

The world heritage status will not diminish the visitors, admits Strohwasser in the environmental committee.

But he considers the circles and groups that are attracted to be desirable.

“These are people who are interested in agriculture,” says Strohwasser.

Speer again pointed out the "many hostilities" that met his team of landowners and farmers.

When the animal rights organization Animal Rights Watch also denounced tethering, which is anchored in the concept, as cruelty to animals, the application landed in the newspapers nationwide.

But the makers have made it clear that it's only about seasonal tethering.

In summer the farmers drive their cows to the alpine pastures.

“You have to educate the people,” emphasizes Speer.

Now everything is clear.

“We have nothing to hide,” adds Strohwasser.

Education ministers and ministries examine the documents in July

Therefore, all those affected have another chance to read over it.

Christine Singer, district councilor and district farmer, appealed to the mayors to spread the information in their places.

"We have to make sure that everyone can see the cards," she says.

Because what is actually in the monster folder, which the Conference of Education Ministers and the ministries examine in July, should then be irreversible.

The district would like to submit all documents to the World Heritage Center in February 2022 - almost eleven years after the idea was born.

A normal period of time, judges consultant Ricarda Schmidt.

The cultural landscape would then be the eighth World Heritage in Bavaria alongside the Würzburg Residence, the Wies Church, the old towns of Bamberg and Regensburg, the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, the pile dwellings around the Alps and the opera house in Bayreuth - even before the royal castles, which are part of the network also apply.

Source: merkur

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