“Dresden Ranks High in Allotment Gardens Among Major German Cities”

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Dresden. Just in time for the start of the gardening season, toom Baumarkt GmbH took a close look at the German allotment landscape. Conclusion: Dresden is among the top 5 of the 15 major German cities with the most residents that were used for the comparison. But the whole thing also has a fly in the ointment.

The number of clubs, the number of parcels, the average size of a parcel and also the rent were examined. Dresden clearly scores in terms of the number of plots per 10,000 inhabitants.

number of allotments

The winner is the Schreber city of Leipzig. There are 52 allotment gardens for every 10,000 inhabitants. Dresden, however, takes second place with 42 plots. Bronze, if you will, goes to Hanover with 36 allotments per 10,000 inhabitants. Taillights are Stuttgart (5), Munich (6) and Dusseldorf (11).

There are 270,438 allotment plots in Germany. With around 66,000, Berlin has the most in terms of numbers. But if you put that in relation to the number of inhabitants, Berlin only comes in 7th place. Leipzig has a total of around 32,000 allotment gardens, Dresden around 23,300.

number of allotment associations

When it comes to the number of clubs, Dresden is at the top. Here the statistics show six clubs per 10,000 inhabitants. Leipzig came second (4), Berlin came third (3). At the bottom, with only one club per 10,000 inhabitants, are Cologne, Frankfurt/Main, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

But the number of clubs is not particularly meaningful, as it does not include how many members the clubs have. After all, there are very small groups with barely a dozen members or very large ones, such as the Hellersiedlung in Dresden, which has 1,350 members.

size of the plots

On the national average, an allotment plot is 420 square meters in size. The city of Dresden is far below this with 340 square meters and ranks only 12th among the 15 most populous cities. The plots are even smaller only in Duisburg (314 square meters), Munich (301 square meters) and Leipzig (300 square meters). The allotment gardeners in Frankfurt/Main have the most space. A plot there is an average of 696 square meters. Bremen took second place with 612 square meters and Hanover took third place with 500 square meters.

Percentage of allotment garden area

It was also examined how large the proportion of allotment garden area is in the total city area. Dresden is in the upper range here, reaching sixth place with 2.41 percent. Hanover is the front runner. There, the allotment gardens take up 4.90 percent of the city area. Frankfurt/Main follows with 4.37 percent, Bremen with 3.27 percent, Berlin with 3.25 percent and Leipzig with 3.22 percent.

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rent in comparison

One of the plus points of the allotment garden system in Germany is that Schreber have to pay comparatively little rent for the piece of green space they use. However, there are again serious differences nationwide, as the toom research shows.

The cheapest is an allotment garden in Leipzig. There, a Schreber pays an average of 0.12 euros/sqm. Second place goes to Bremen (0.18 euros/sqm) and Frankfurt/Main (0.25 euros/sqm). The plaice is most expensive in Nuremberg. Allotment gardeners there pay 0.71 euros/sqm. But then comes Dresden with an average of 0.60 euros/sqm.