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The long planned 1st Bavarian Landscape Summit will take place on October 10, 2022 (Munich / hybrid). All essential information about it can be found here.

On April 5, 2022, the first public event of the project "Landschaftsplanung kommunal innovativ" took place with 180 participants from municipalities, administration, associations and planning offices. A report about the digital symposium by Dr. Johannes Gnädinger, chairman of bdla Bavaria and head of the AG Landschaftsentwicklung, can be found here: pdf Report - LP kommunal innovativ (digital professional symposium). (98 KB)

• With the city of Abensberg (Lower Bavaria), the question of which potential areas for area photovoltaics can be identified from the perspective of the entire municipality is to be investigated.
• For the city of Bamberg (Upper Franconia), the multifunctional land use in the context of urban and peri-urban climate adaptation is in the foreground.
• The municipality of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn (Upper Bavaria) pursues issues and concepts of land management, soil and groundwater protection.
• For the municipality of Kirchheim (Lower Franconia), the focus is on natural stone quarrying, which is widespread in the municipal area, and its integration into a biotope network and agricultural use.
• In the market town of Oberelsbach (Lower Franconia) and its surrounding sensitive natural areas, ideas and concepts for visitor guidance of regional tourism, recreational use and landscape communication are to be worked on.
• The city of Penzberg (Upper Bavaria) wants to solve questions of moor protection for biodiversity and climate adaptation in connection with visitor guidance.
• The town of Selbitz (Upper Franconia) has experienced repeated flash floods as a result of heavy rainfall, so the issue of watershed management in the open landscape and possible adaptations in the populated area will be addressed here.

The experiences in the partner municipalities will then be processed for Bavaria-wide application.

All planned technical events in 2022 can be found on the pilot project website.

In the run-up to the 1st Bavarian Landscape Summit, a digital symposium will take place on Tuesday, 05.04.2022 from 08:30 - 12:30: "Landscape Planning in Bavaria: Roadmap Future". You can find the program (timely) here: www.anl.bayern.de/projekte/projekt_lapla/

Your opinion: Invitation to the online target group survey

What do the municipalities think about the landscape plan? And what does it need to be fit for the future? Whether you are a decision-maker, an elected official, an administrator or an interested citizen, we welcome your suggestions and ideas in an online survey. The survey will be active from 17.01. to 18.02.2022 at the following link: www.uni-kassel.de/go/umfrage.

Your request: Invitation to be included in the project mailing list.

Interested in info about the project, events andamp; networking? Register now! Municipalities that would like to be kept up to date on the project's activities and take advantage of the offers can be added to the project distribution list. To do so, simply send an e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The project now operates under the official title "Landscape Planning in Bavaria - Municipal and Innovative. Paving the way for future-oriented cities and communities". At the beginning, a survey was conducted among Bavarian municipalities to determine their previous experiences with landscape planning, their wishes and needs for future, sustainability-oriented municipal development. Currently, the partner municipalities are being selected; together with them, the content and methodological work will be carried out. A "Landscape Summit" is being prepared for April 5, 2022; it is to take place in the Munich Literaturhaus.

Together with committed municipalities, municipal landscape planning in Bavaria is to be further developed. For this purpose, the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection (StMUV) has launched a new project for the "Activation and Further Development of Municipal Landscape Planning in Bavaria". Interested municipalities please register until 30.07.2021 at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. // Read more...

The initiative "Landscape plan reset", initiated by bdla Bavaria, is now real: Under the title "Activation of landscape planning in Bavaria", a project (2021 - 2024) has been started under the leadership of the StMUV, which aims at the revitalization and further development of landscape planning in cooperation with model municipalities.
In a kick-off meeting between the Ministry, specialized authorities, municipal umbrella organizations and bdla Bavaria, the basic approach and the main objectives and contents were exchanged on April 23. In the near future, a structured target group survey on landscape planning will be conducted among the municipalities, possibly also among experts. In the next step, a project steering group will be set up, in which further stakeholders are to be involved. Accompanying information events will also be held.
You can read a detailed report on the kick-off meeting by Dr. Johannes Gnädinger, head of the AG Landschaftsentwicklung in bdla Bayern, folder here. (169 KB)

The ministerial submission for the model project "landscape plan reset" is to be completed this year. It will then be up to Minister Thorsten Glauber to adopt the proposals contained therein, i.e. in particular to approve the use of the double budget for the project and to set up the working group accompanying the project.
The project was presented to Minister of State Michaela Kaniber (Agriculture, Food and Forestry) in July 2020, who welcomed the proposal for cooperation. The regional committee of the Bavarian Municipal Association, to which Dr. Johannes Gnädinger and Andreas Rockinger presented the project on behalf of the bdla board in Unterschleißheim on September 16, 2020, also unanimously approved the project.

A detailed, general outline of the project proposal (as of April 2020) can be found here.