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Appeal: Support the Emmaus Forest with your donation
Dear supporters and friends of the Emmaus Forest! Action materials, catering, the logistics behind an action and this website too: all of that costs money. So that we can continue to protect the Emmaus Forest from the real estate industry, we depend on your support – every amount helps! Read more Emmauswald bleibt! e. V. has…
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Appeal: Write to Senator Gaebler so that #EmmausWaldBleibt
We managed to convince the district of Neukölln not to approve the development plan for the Emmaus Forest site. But now the Senate has taken over the procedure. Building Senator Christian Gaebler (SPD) reaffirmed in the Morgenpost that he would rather grant VONOVIA its condominiums than protect the Emmaus Forest ecosystem. Read more We therefore…
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On the further procedure (summary & assessment of the statement in the Neukölln BVV of 30 Aug 2023)
The Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing has instructed the Neukölln district office to continue the development plan procedure for the Emmaus Forest “to safeguard urgent overall interests of Berlin” and to complete it by the end of the year. There is no justification for this – other than: it is a large…
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Summary of the statement in the Neukölln BVV (30 Aug 2023) on the forest status
The Berlin Forestry Authority has now officially recognised the Emmaus Forest as forest under §2 of the State Forest Act! Read more The forestry authority further notes: Compared with the rest of Berlin, the district of Neukölln must be considered extremely poor in forest area. With the new forest, Neukölln’s forest stock has almost tripled.…
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Neukölln has a new forest – the EmmausWald
Statement by the initiative “Emmauswald bleibt!” on the announcement in the Neukölln BVV on 30 Aug 2023: The Emmaus Forest is now officially the first designated forest in North Neukölln! Read more As recently as April, Buwog/Vonovia claimed that the former Emmaus cemetery grounds on Hermannstraße were not a forest, merely a plot of land…
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Sponge City Berlin ideas competition – our application
Berlin is getting hotter and drier, and when rain falls, it often falls too much at once. The consequences are drought, low groundwater levels, dried-up small water bodies, weakened urban greenery and heat, but also flooding, overloaded sewers and polluted waterways. Read more The Rainwater Agency wants to counter the consequences of climate change and…
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Urban Development Committee, 18 Apr 2023 – results and next steps
Yesterday, around 150 of us protested in front of Neukölln Town Hall for the preservation of the Emmaus Forest. The speeches and many individual conversations made clear that, in times of climate crisis, none of those present can understand why a natural biotope should be destroyed to build predominantly (70%) unaffordable apartments. Read more The…
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Neighbourhood walk, 29 Mar 2023
Everyone come to the #Kiezspaziergang (neighbourhood walk) of @KiezV44 in #Britz on 29 Mar 2023, meeting point 6 pm at Hermannstraße S-Bahn station. Stations include #EmmausWaldBleibt, #DmitryBleibt, gentrification on #EmserStr, the house fire on #Nogatstraße, wrap-up at @syndikat44. #weAllStay #notOneTreeLess
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Committee session, 18 Apr 2023
‼️ Save the date ‼️ On 18 April from 5 pm, the development plan for the #clearing & #construction of #condominiums on the 4 hectares of #EmmausWald 🌳🌳🌳 will be discussed in the Urban Development Committee #Neukölln. Everyone come to Neukölln Town Hall so that #EmmausWaldBleibt! More info to follow. #b1804