Geschichte der Kleingartenanlagen in Pankow

Urban Farm DB summary

An exhibition text in which Berlin's Pankow district office traces the history of allotment sites in the district. It describes the spread of Red Cross workers' gardens in the early twentieth century and their consolidation in 1906 into the Verband deutscher Arbeitergärten vom Roten Kreuz under Alwin Bielefeldt (1857–1942); the head-tenant (Generalpächter) system common around the turn of the century, in which land was leased and sublet with contracts often running for a single year; and the Kleingarten- und Kleinpachtlandordnung of 31 July 1919, which gave legal protection and prohibited head-leasing. On the arbour colonists it records the first permanent municipal lease in Blankenburg on former sewage fields in 1910 and the 1911 formation of a unified federation of arbour colonists of Berlin and surroundings, and cites a 1912 survey finding that 70 per cent of Berlin schoolchildren had never seen a sunrise and 54 per cent no sunset. For the GDR period it notes the founding of the VKSK in 1959, more than a million members by 1988 and its dissolution on 27 October 1990; more recently, that of Berlin's 900 allotment sites roughly 600 were given permanent protection and about 160 only time-limited protection.

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• 1 years

  typical lease term(generalpacht lease)

  Policy

  region

  Germany (Berlin)

  year

  1900

  method

  head-tenant contracts around the turn of the century often limited to a single year

• 600 sites

  sites with permanent protection(berlin allotment sites)

  PolicyControl: of about 900 allotment sites in Berlin

  region

  Germany (Berlin)

  year

  2014

  method

  Berlin allotment protection plan

• 70 %

  share never seen sunrise(berlin schoolchildren)

  Social

  region

  Germany (Berlin)

  year

  1912

  method

  survey of Berlin schoolchildren cited by the district office

• 54 %

  share never seen sunset(berlin schoolchildren)

  Social

  region

  Germany (Berlin)

  year

  1912

  method

  survey of Berlin schoolchildren cited by the district office

• 1,000,000 members↑ Increase

  member count(vksk)

  PolicyControl: membership at founding in 1959

  region

  Germany (GDR)

  year

  1988

  method

  over one million members reported for the VKSK by 1988

• 160 sites

  sites with time limited protection(berlin allotment sites)

  PolicyControl: of about 900 allotment sites in Berlin

  region

  Germany (Berlin)

  year

  2014

  method

  Berlin allotment protection plan

Direction of conclusions

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• Land tenureSupportsWith caveats
• Policy and governanceSupportsWith caveats