Confusion about illegal garden plots in Dreieich

• ofAnnette Schlegl

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The majority of city councilors in Dreieich supports allotment gardeners in the Götzenhain district who have received an eviction order from the Offenbach district.

An allotment garden that is located in the Dreieich district of Götzenhain on a stream creates a stir. The Lower Nature Conservation Authority in the Offenbach district describes the gardens, which were designated 50 years ago, as illegal because they conflict with the legal requirements of nature conservation, building and water law. The allotment gardeners should clear their green oases by 2023. The majority of city councilors have now set an example in their most recent meeting and are asking the state and district to take a look and make new regulations. Only the Greens voted against it.

The majority of the parliamentarians decided that the magistrate should examine possibilities for compensation in order to move the border of the landscape protection area so that the allotment garden can be preserved. He should also work to ensure that the district suspends the current proceedings against allotment gardens on private properties in the Götzenhain district. At the same time, the city should ask the state to pragmatically adapt the Hessian Nature Conservation Act to the needs of allotment gardening.

The Lower Nature Conservation Authority is going decidedly too far, said SPD parliamentary group leader Holger Dechert at the meeting. Hedges have to be removed, stacks of firewood are not permitted, garden tools are no longer allowed to be stored, tables and benches are no longer set up. A shift of the border of the landscape protection area by ten to 20 meters with appropriate compensation measures must be possible “if the authorities make an effort and move,” said Dechert. There are enough examples of allotment gardens that are located on streams.

Roland Kreyscher (Greens) referred to a negative statement by the district councilor Claudia Jäger (CDU) from November 2020. The SPD asked them to suspend the proceedings against the allotment gardeners. “I don’t think we’ll get another answer to the same thing six months later,” he said.

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