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Land consolidation

Term (also field consolidation, land consolidation, land consolidation, reallocation) for all measures to make agricultural fields or plots of land that have been split up, mostly by inheritance, more suitable and cost-effective for cultivation by combining them. In the second half of the 20th century, there was an extensive state-controlled land consolidation programme for winegrowing in Germany. From the beginning of the 1960s onwards, more than half of the vineyard area in western Germany was restructured. There were many improvements through better access roads, better workability and better water drainage. Many fragmented estates were merged, thus reducing production costs.

However, the land consolidation carried out sometimes led to very large monocultures with negative side effects such as erosion or increased pest populations, so from the 1990s onwards, actions were carried out in a more environmentally conscious way. The land consolidation in 1971 reduced the approximately 30,000 individual vineyards to less than 3,000 by merging them. Particularly in the case of large individual sites of 100 hectares and more, this led in part to great inhomogeneity with large differences in soil type and climate (microclimate). The registration of former Gewannen into the now smallest geographical unit of origin called cadastral site, which has been possible since 2014, results in a straightening. See also a list of relevant keywords under vineyard area.

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