The individual regulations for the German federal states in detail
The following overviews give you information about the legal regulations in the various federal states.
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Bavaria
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Trees taller than two meters | 2 metres |
| all other trees | 0.5 meters |
Baden-Wuerttemberg
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Large trees (forest trees, conifers) | 8 meters |
| Medium-sized trees and grafted fruit trees | 4 meters |
| Pome and stone fruit trees, slow-growing | 2 metres |
| Trees and shrubs less than 1.8 meters | 1 meter |
| All other trees | 3 meter |
Berlin
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Strong, large trees | 3 meter |
| Fruit trees without a high trunk | 1 meter |
| all other trees | 1.5 meters |
Brandenburg
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| The following applies to all trees: | at least one third of the height |
| Fruit trees | 2 metres |
| all other trees | 4 meters |
Bremen and Hamburg
There are no corresponding legal regulations here, but Bremen repeatedly refers to the neighborhood law valid in Lower Saxony.
Hesse
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Oak, linden, poplar, walnut trees | 4 meters |
| strong-growing trees | 2 metres |
| all other trees | 1.5 meters |
| strong growing pome fruit trees, sweet cherries and grafted walnut trees | 2 metres |
| all other fruit trees | 1.5 meters |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
In this federal state, too, there is no uniform statutory regulation regarding the required limit distances.
Lower Saxony
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Trees over 15 meters high | 8 meters |
| Trees up to 15 meters high | 3 meter |
| Trees up to 5 meters high | 1.25 meters |
| Trees up to 3 meters high | 0.75 meters |
| Trees up to 2 meters high | 0.5 meters |
| Trees up to 1.2 meters high | 0.25 meters |
North Rhine-Westphalia
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Strong-growing trees | 4 meters |
| All other ornamental trees | 2 metres |
| Strong-growing pome fruit trees, sweet cherries, walnut trees, chestnuts | 2 metres |
| medium-strong growing pome fruit trees, stone fruit trees (except sweet cherry) | 1.5 meters |
| poorly growing pome fruit trees | 1 meter |
Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia and Saarland
In these federal states, the neighborhood law prescribes the same distances as in Lower Saxony.
Saxony
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Trees under 2 meters | 0.5 meters |
| Trees over 2 meters | 2 metres |
Saxony-Anhalt
| Tree species | Limit distance, minimum |
|---|
| Trees over 15 meters high | 6 meters |
| Trees up to 15 meters high | 3 meter |
| Trees up to 5 meters high | 1.25 meters |
| Trees up to three meters high | 1 meter |
| Trees up to 1.5 meters high | 0.5 meters |
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein stipulates a minimum distance of one third of the total height of the tree.
Tips
In the development plans of many housing estates, not only are the architectural forms of the homes precisely specified, the tree species to be planted are also recorded there.
