Soils worthy of protection in Lower Saxony 1 : 50 000 - Soils with cultural-historical significance

Soils that are particularly worthy of protection include soils whose natural functions as well as their archival function have essentially been preserved. According to soil protection law, impairments of these functions should be avoided (cf. §1 BBodSchG). Soils with cultural-historical significance are documents of human soil cultivation and have an archival character. Soils that are important in terms of cultural history have been created, for example, through arable farming measures that are no longer in use today. The methods for determining the protection of soils in Lower Saxony are described in detail in Bug et al. (2019) is described. The evaluations are based on the soil map of Lower Saxony 1 : 50 000 (BK 50) and the Digital Landscape Model (DLM25) of the LGLN.