National Land Agency BPN - Republic of Indonesia (1995):
International Workshop on the Implementation of Rural Land Consolidation

11. Application of Rural Land Consolidation in Germany

by Karl Kollmer, Director for Land Consolidation and Rural Development

11.1 Introduction

The objectives, procedures and legal foundation of land consolidation in Germany grew up in a process stretching back over a hundred years. Today, land consolidation involves highly complex tasks, as is necessitated in desenley-populated and highly-industrialized countries in order to further develop infrastructure (especially transport), to maintain a profitable, i.e. viable farming sector, and to manage the anthropogenic landscape. Having said that, measures with very simple and straightforward objectives can be implemented by applying procedures specially created and adapted for the purpose.

New tasks have arisen as a result of German reunification, and the changes , in land laws since introduced in former East Germany.