The nominated property covers a continuous area of approximately 188,292 hectares embedded in a large-scale buffer zone. It consists of 17,712 hectares in the former inner-German border strip and 170,580 hectares in adjacent protected areas.
The Green Belt is a joint nomination from the nine federal states Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse, Thuringia, Bavaria and Saxony. The federal state of Berlin supports the nomination from the start, particularly with regard to a potential future conversion into a Mixed Site. The Federal States are convinced that the Green Belt does not only has an Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) as habitat network and hot spot for European biodiversity. It also bears memorial sites of OUV, which remind at the former so-called Iron Curtain and its related worldwide consequences.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
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