Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments

The Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance ( BLN short ) involves protected landscapes and nature objects of Switzerland. Currently the oldest federal inventory counts to 162 objects, which are distributed over the whole country.

Origin of the federal inventory was the KLN inventory ( inventory to be received, Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance ), which was created in 1963 as a private initiative of Pro Natura, Swiss Heritage Society and the Swiss Alpine Club.

Structure

The basis for the inventory, the Federal Act on Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA ), which entered into force on 1 July 1966. In four series of 162 properties were taken 1977-1998, which are divided into the following three types:

  • Unique objects - which are unique because of their nature, extent, beauty, and ecological and / or cultural and geographical significance.
  • Type landscapes - which are specific to a country area as particularly typical
  • Natural Monuments - single objects such as boulders, rock outcrops or typical landforms.

The objects recorded in the inventory should remain undiminished and earn the greatest possible protection. The BLN is binding on federal agencies with landscape-related activities and this may make no intervention, unless a similar or higher quality public interest is of national importance. The BLN itself but has no direct legal effect on the real property: The inclusion in the inventory is ad hoc no nature conservation law under protection, this is generally done by the inclusion in the Directive or use plans.

Recorded the objects in the Federal Inventory are also in the cantonal landscape inventories, where the collection of regional and local landscape protection areas and landscape-shaping elements (such as geomorphological features) are added.

Protected Objects

Protected landscapes and natural monuments are:

  • Traditional terraced vineyards on the left foot of the Jura Lake Biel in the canton of Bern
  • The valley of La Brevine in the Jura, the cold pole of Switzerland in the canton of Neuchâtel
  • The Rhine Falls
  • Grangettes, the Rhône delta on Lake Geneva
  • Lag da Toma ( Toma ), the source of the Anterior Rhine in Grisons.
  • The Upper Engadin lake landscape with the Bernina Range in Graubünden
  • The Ruinaulta, the Grand Canyon of Switzerland in Vorderrheintal in Graubünden
  • The Valle Verzasca ( Verzasca Valley ) in Ticino
  • The hills Valeria and Tourbillon in Sion, in the Valais with original dry flora and fauna.
  • The landslide area of ​​Goldau in the canton of Schwyz
  • Lake Lucerne with core forest, guarantors floor, and Rigi
  • The Gasterental above Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland.
  • The reed landscape on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, the Camargue in Switzerland
  • The Lavaux, vineyard landscape at the top Lake Geneva between Montreux and Lausanne
  • The cats lakes in the north of the city of Zurich
  • The Albis chain, including case grapeshot and Reppischtal in Zurich as well as the area between the Lorzentobel in Canton train and the Sihl in Zurich Canton
  • The Gempen, a highland in the north-western Switzerland, southeast of Basel
  • The Silberen hilltop with the Bödmeren, Switzerland's largest karst area
  • The water meadows at the Langete and red in the cantons of Berne and Lucerne
  • The bog Schwarz in Arosa, Grisons Canton.
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