The Saxon section of the former inner-German border strip will become a National Natural Monument. The part of the so-called Green Belt with a length of 42 kilometers along the border to Bavaria will thus be uniformly protected, as announced by the Ministry of the Environment.
Protection unified
The area with an area of around 760 hectares was already under nature protection, but in the form of 13 individual nature reserves, natural monuments and protected landscape features as well as two other nature conservation guidelines. These protection ordinances will now be replaced by the new designation.
National Natural Monuments are areas that are of outstanding importance for scientific, natural, cultural or historical reasons and because of their rarity, uniqueness and beauty. According to the ministry, the ordinance designating the Green Belt in Saxony as such comes into force on Thursday. Administration and management of the protected area will be transferred to the Vogtland district, which will be responsible for its conservation and development.
