Content
- It is essential to keep the distance between trees
- The individual regulations for the German federal states in detail
- Bavaria
- Baden-Wurttemberg
- Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Bremen and Hamburg
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Lower Saxony
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia and Saarland
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Tips
How close a tree may be planted at the boundary of the land varies slightly from one federal state to another
It is essential to keep the distance between trees
If you want to plant trees, you do not just have to look for a good location and the right planting distance. In addition, it is important to comply with the legal limit distance to neighboring property. This is important to preserve neighborly peace.
The individual regulations for the German federal states in detail
The following overviews give you information about the legal regulations in the different federal states.
Bavaria
Baden-Wurttemberg
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen and Hamburg
Here there are no corresponding legal regulations, however, Bremen refers again and again to the valid in Lower Saxony neighborhood law.
Hesse
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Also in this federal state there is no uniform legal regulation, which concerns the necessary border distances.
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia and Saarland
In these states, the neighborhood law prescribes the same distances as in Lower Saxony.
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein stipulates a minimum distance of one third of the total height of the tree.
Tips
In the development plans of many housing estates, not only the architectural forms of the homes are precisely defined, also the tree species to be planted are listed there.