Unsere Historie — Entstehungsgeschichte und Meilensteine

Urban Farm DB summary

The national allotment federation's own history page. It sorts the nineteenth-century origins into six lines — poor gardens, factory gardens, Red Cross workers' gardens, the Berlin arbour colonists, gardens of the natural-healing movement and the Schreber gardens — and states that these lacked state legitimation and legal rules, with the absence of termination protection and the head-tenant system (Generalpächtersystem) in particular obstructing lasting protection. It records the passage of the Kleingarten- und Kleinpachtlandordnung by the National Assembly in Weimar on 31 July 1919, which banned commercial head-leasing and required rents to be fixed; the 1909 founding of the central federation; the Reich government's 1916 establishment of a central office for vegetable growing in allotments; the founding of the Reich federation of German allotment associations on 14 August 1921 at the second Reich allotment congress in Bremen; the Nazi-era Gleichschaltung; the post-war split into the VDK (Bochum, 1949) in the West and the VKSK (Leipzig, 1959) in the East; the 1973 renaming to BDG; and the renaming to BKD on 9 September 2023.

Only numbers and their conditions are stored, as structured data — never the source's own sentences. Metric and condition names stay in English, as coded.

• 1,919

  enactment year(kleingarten ordinance)

  Policy

  region

  Germany

  year

  1919

  method

  Kleingarten- und Kleinpachtlandordnung adopted by the National Assembly in Weimar on 31 July 1919

• 1,921

  founding year(kleingarten federation)

  Policy

  region

  Germany

  year

  1921

  method

  Reichsverband der Kleingartenvereine Deutschlands founded 14 August 1921 in Bremen

• 1,916

  establishment year(kleingarten central office)

  Policy

  region

  Germany

  year

  1916

  method

  Reich government sets up the Zentralstelle für den Gemüseanbau im Kleingarten in Berlin

• 200 years

  movement age(kleingarten)

  Social

  region

  Germany

  year

  2026

  method

  federation's own statement that allotments have existed in various forms for over 200 years

Direction of conclusions

Each author conclusion is recorded only as a coded direction per topic. Read the original for the conclusion itself.

• Land tenureSupportsWith caveats
• Policy and governanceSupportsWith caveats