Saxony loses cultural monuments - cases of illegal demolition

Monument protection needs sufficient staff

"The state government must therefore now enable the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments to quickly fill vacant staff positions and check whether the lower monument authorities in cities and districts are sufficiently staffed," said Löser. The protection of architectural monuments is also a sign of appreciation for the many people who worked to preserve them in the GDR, many of them on a voluntary basis.

Saxony is rich in architectural monuments. With more than 100,000 protected buildings, the Free State ranks second in Germany, the report continued. In order to preserve this heritage, the Greens said that they had secured an additional four million euros for monument preservation in the negotiations for the current double budget.

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