After 50 years, Susanne Lauer loses her beloved garden; BZ editor Sabine Klier comments Photo: Siegfried Purschke/BZ assembly
By Sabine Klier
Anyone who is fortunate enough to own a Schreber garden knows that it is a lot of work and that there are rules. Strictly speaking, the federal allotment garden law.
And the district associations ensure that they are observed. You can’t do what you want. Because, strictly speaking, one of the allotments does not belong to one, but to the state of Berlin.
The queue of those who would also like to till paradise is long.
After 50 years, the daughter of a deceased tenant loses her beloved garden because she was not on the applicant list. Now she’s angry and is now unpacking about her allotment board members and their alleged breaches of the rules – including houses that are too big, hedges that are too high.
The felt always grows in secret. But if you tolerate it for years, at some point you will no longer reap the rewards.