- Freiburg Green City
- The City's Resource Capital: Nature
Forestry Office
Günterstalstraße 71
79100 Freiburg
Phone +49 (0) 761/ 201-6201
Fax: +49 (0) 761/ 77982
Mail: forstamt@
stadt.freiburg.de
Umweltschutzamt
Talstraße 4
79102 Freiburg
Phone 0761/ 201-61 01
Fax: 0761/ 201-6199
The City's Resource Capital: Nature
The Forest
The Freiburg communal forest covers an area of 6,400 hectares (43 percent of the territory). This is the largest communal forest in Germany, and is regarded as the municipal “green lungs” of Freiburg and the most important recreational area near the city, with approximately 4 million visitors annually.
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Parks and Nature Conservation Areas
Freiburg has acquired recognition for being a ‘green city of well-being’ also because of its numerous green spaces. The city is located in a green belt, with 500 hectares of green space stretching from the periphery right into the heart of the city. Between Mundenhof, Seepark and the natural conservation area “Freiburger Rieselfeld” in the west and Möselpark and the Dreisam meadow in the east, there are numerous green areas: parks, landscape conservation reserves, nature reserves, garden plots, playgrounds for children, also cemeteries.
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Air Quality and Emissions
As early as the 1990s, Freiburg recorded emissions in a registry and developed an air-quality plan. It was also the first city in Germany to initiate an ozone phone-in line. However, when addressing local emissions reduction there are many regional and urban factors that impact upon this issue.
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Soil Protection
The Soil Status Report of the Freiburg Region of 2004 documents existing and new environmental pollution in the soil and groundwater. It has helped to address developing threats regarding soil acidification, sealing, erosion and land use in general. Areas with vulnerable and polluted soil were identified, precautionary measures and hazard prevention recommended and land reclamation proposed.
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Water Protection
Increasing land use, surface sealing (roads, pavements) and the growing potential of extreme storms and heavy rainfall due to climate change make flood protection an ever-increasing priority. According to EU and German legislation, flood hazard maps must be prepared for especially endangered areas by 2012 at the latest; if at all, buildings may be erected in potential flood hazard areas, only if strict conditions have been fulfilled.
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