Updating and expanding the Central Saxony cultural landscape project
Client:
District of Central Saxony
Duration:
12/2025 - 11/2027
Project team:
TU Dresden (Prof. Dr. C. Schmidt, Dr. K. Seidler, Tom Leukefeld M. Sc.)
Aims of the research project:
Web-based updating and updating of the KULAP (2014) of the district of Central Saxony in the aspects:
- Cultural landscape typology
- Building and green primer
- climate adaptation
- Energy infrastructure and landscape
Project description:
A cultural landscape project(KULAP 2014 - ) for the district of Central Saxony was developed by the Chair more than 10 years ago. Based on this, the district has continued to work conceptually in the following years, so that there is now an in-depth planning basis (e.g. Biotope Network Primer 2021, Building and Green Primer 2023, Integrated Climate Protection Concept 2025). At the same time, inventories of the KULAP (2014) must be considered outdated. For example, new climate projections are available, which must be used to reassess the vulnerability of Central Saxony's cultural landscapes to extreme events, and the proportion of renewable energy plants has increased massively in the last 10 years. Even historical cultural landscape elements mapped in 2014 may have been lost in the meantime.
Against this background, the KULAP 2014 is to be updated and updated on the basis of a new inventory and evaluation based on this, whereby the key projects proposed in 2014 are also to be reviewed in the course of monitoring for their implementation and also reasons for non-implementation in order to adapt them if necessary and supplement them with new project ideas.
In the cultural landscape typology module, the findings from the KULAP 2014 will be reviewed for the need for updating and the availability of newer data sources that also allow updating. In addition, a concept for a web-based presentation of the results is being developed. An overview map of the district's "historical maps of special character" will make it possible to download more detailed maps on the specific character and type of these landscapes in future.
The Supplement to the Building and Green Primer module aims to expand the district's Building and Green Primer published in 2023 to include guidelines for the development of the five urban types identified in 2014 and described in fact sheets. Development guidelines and strategies in relation to building culture as well as urban and green structure, which result from the respective type and its characteristic urban building blocks, are clearly presented.
With regard to wind energy and PV systems in particular, the existing energy infrastructure in the energy module (e.g. on the basis of a GIS-based calculation of the current horizon adjustment by wind turbines or the GIS-based determination of the density of renewable energy systems) must be updated and the impact on the landscape must also be reassessed. Compared to the KULAP 2014, the considerations should be expanded to include technogenic impacts, including those caused by mobile phone masts and new forms of PV systems (especially agri-PV systems).
The decisive factor for the climate adaptation module is that the LfULG now has different climate models than in 2014, which make it necessary to reassess the district's climatic exposure. There is a particular need for updating and updating in the areas of vulnerability of arable land in periods of drought or heavy rainfall and in relation to the vulnerability of forests to drought stress and, as a result, storm damage, forest fires and insect calamities.
As a result, the existing models for the district's cultural landscapes will be reviewed in the Strategies and Projects module, adapted if necessary and made accessible on the web. In addition, thematic guidelines and strategies as well as key projects for future cultural landscape development will be supplemented with the participation of stakeholders in the district.
Project staff:
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Research assistant; Erasmus department coordinator
NameMs Dr.-Ing. Kathrin Seidler
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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
NameMr Tom Leukefeld M. Sc.
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