On Tuesday, 19 November 2019, the small exhibition "Naturschutz in Bayern" will be held in the Bavarian Main State Archive before 1979. Actions and actors’. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparation service 2017/2020 for the entry into the 3rd Qualification level of the field of education and science, specialist focus on archives, at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria, elaborated by Andrea Kurzböck. Climate protection and environmental protection are currently dominated by public discussion, and nature conservation is rarely discussed. An exception is species protection, a core area of nature protection. Since 19. In addition to species protection, nature protectors are concerned with the protection of the landscape and individual natural monuments. Procedures, personnel structure and motivations of nature conservation have been subject to changes over time, but have always been diverse. State and non-governmental institutions demanded, appealed to reason and emotions, mobilized, threatened with punishment, rewarded but also exemplary action. Associations, associations, press and state authorities gathered and disseminated information. At the beginning, aesthetic and patriotic-conservative aspects were at the centre of the argumentation. Other motives were the protection of nature for scientific purposes and the recognition that the destruction of nature is burdening the economy in the long term. Ecological and soci

The State Archive Nuremberg shows from 9 November to 20 December 2019 the exhibition “The Nuremberg Reichswald – Wood for Nuremberg and its villages”. The exhibition was prepared by the State Archive Nuremberg together with the Franconian Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim. Wood as an important and renewable raw material was already significant in the Middle Ages. 14th and 15th The city of Nuremberg secured the rights to the large forests around the city. Two “forest offices” were responsible for the administration, which controlled the wood consumption of the subjects. Not only the firewood cover was regulated, but also timber had to be applied. To save wood, more stone was used for building. The written delivery of the forest offices Lorenzi and Sebaldi in the state archive Nuremberg includes a total of 83 shelves. In the documents there are around 5,300 mostly coloured construction plans of farmhouses, stables and barns, fences, mills and furnaces from the 16th to the end of the 18th century. Century – a unique treasure in Germany. After several years of work, these files are now opened and all plans are digitized. The plans document the appearance and change of villages, mansions and mills in the “Old Landscape”. What is hidden from exciting stories behind the files of a rich city authority shows examples of black structures, unauthorized woodwork and the devastations of the Thirty Years War. In addition to files and the most beau