German Soil Assessment and Soil Evaluation

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The working group German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation of the German Soil Science Society (DBG), the Tax Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the Geological Survey NRWinvite you to a joint lecture symposium and field excursion in Bad Sassendorf near Soest in southern Münsterland/Germany. The lectures/presentations will start midday, on 13 September 2017 follows an all-day field excursion to typical soils of the area.

Registration of presentations or papers is expressly welcomed.

A fee will be charged for participation in the joint event

Please send your registration for the event until 15 June 2018, preferably per e-Mail to the following address:

Dr. Christian Petzold
Finanzamt/Finance Office Leverkusen
Sachgebiet XVIII
Marie-Curie-Str. 2
D-51377 Leverkusen
Phone: 0214 / 89280 - 2069
E-Mail: christian [dot] petzoldfv [dot] nrw [dot] de

Dr. Joachim Betzer
Geological Survey NRW
De-Greiffstr. 195
D-47803 Krefeld
Phone: 02151 / 897 - 294
E-Mail: betzergd [dot] nrw [dot] de

Please send your booking for overnight stays and food packing as soon as possible to

Training and Education Centre Agriculture Haus Düsse
Haus Düsse 2
59505 Bad Saasendorf
Telefax: 02945 / 989 - 133
E-Mail: HausDuesselwk [dot] nrw [dot] de

We have reserved a contigent of rooms until late summer 2018.

All registered participants will receive further information in July 2018.

Portrait

The working group German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation was established in 1996 by soil assessment experts from tax authorities, by soil scientists from State Geological Services, universities and by engineering service providers. It was confirmed by the members of the German Soil Science Society and made a part of its Commission V at the 1997 general assembly.

The working group regularly organises lecture symposium and field excursions as well as workshops on varying topics. Such events aim at encouraging and facilitating the exchange of experience between soil assessment experts and soil scientists in the areas of soil and site assessment. At the same time, they provide an opportunity for discussion on the interpretation of soil assessment data, its transformation into the modern pedological nomenclature and classification of soils and its integration into computer-aided soil information systems in order to tackle current pedological issues in administration and academics:

soil mapping geological mapping evaluation of the soil functions (Cross Compliance) groundwater protection (EU Water Framework Directive) spatial planning and planning of land use agricultural use of land land consolidation land improvement conversation of nature The hands-on pedological excursions serve the education and training of participants and the coordinated description of the soil profiles.

Activities

History and events of the working group ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation” (or with its participation)

Date Activities Location 1996

Initiative to found the working group

13.3.1997 Preparatory committee meeting Krefeld 11.9.1997

Establishment of the working group ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation” at the annual convention of the German Soil Society (DBG)

Uni Konstanz 10.2.1998

Meeting of the coordination group; definition of the tasks and structure

OFD Frankfurt am Main 30.9. - 1.10.1998

1 conference including field excursion to Central Hessen; organisers: German Soil Society (DBG), Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), Oberfinanzdirektion/Regional Finance Office Frankfurt am Main, Hessian Agency for Soil Research (HLfB), University of Giessen, University of Frankfurt and Federal Soil Association (BVB); field excursion: ”Inspection of federal samples from the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and long-term soil observation areas in the Eastern Hintertaunus, the Butzbach Basin and the Giessen Threshold as well as of recultivated soils in the Horloff Rift”

OFD Frankfurt am Main

4. - 12.9.
1999

Lecture block of the working group in the context of the DBG annual convention; field excursion to ”the soils at the periphery of the Hannover metropolitan region” with special consideration of the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung)

Uni Hannover

26./27.9.
2000

2 conference of the working group with the BMF on the topic of ”evaluation of heaped-upsoils suitable for agricultural use“ with field excursion on ”problems of soil assessment of restored soils suitable for agricultural use” in open-cast lignite mining of Central Germany

Uni Halle/Saale

1. - 9.9.
2001

Annual convention of the DBG and the ÖBG; field excursions for Austrian soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) in the Weinviertel region and the Alpine foreland; lecture block and meeting of the working group

Uni Wien 23.4.2002

3 conference (workshop): ”Cautious reform of the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) - possibilities of strongerconsideration of the soil water budget” on the occasion of an excursion of the Federal assessment board at the BMF

Versuchsgut Marienborn (Uni Gießen)

4./5.9.2002

4 conference including field excursion to the south-east of Hessen; central topics of the lectures: "German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and water regime", "requirements of the soil research for the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung)", "approaches to a cautious reform of the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung)"

Uni Gießen

30.8. - 7.9.
2003

Lecture block at the annual convention of the DBG; field excursion to restored soils in the Lusatian lignite mining area: ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) of strongly changed soils”

Uni Frankfurt/Oder November 2003

Publication of the booklet ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation - use and collection of German soil assessment data”

23./24.3.
2004

5 Conference including field excursion together with the working group of information systems in soil science and the Regional Finance Office Erfurt; central topics: ”Conditions and developments for the use of digital Bodenschätzung data for pedological surveys, the soil evaluation and applied soil protection”; field excursion near Gotha: ”Pedological and fiscal location description, data preparation and derivation of soil functions for non-fiscal purposes”

Training centre of the Thuringian Tax Administration, Gotha

20./21.9.
2004

6 conference (workshop) with field excursion together with the working group of information systems in soil science, Regional Finance Office Munich, Bavarian State Institute of Agriculture; various topics; Field excursion to new federal samples in the area of Kempten/Gunzesried/Schwangau

Kempten/Allgäu

3. - 11.9.
2005

Lecture series of the working group at the annual convention of DBG; half-day field excursion ”three approaches for the evaluation of location of agriculturally usedsoils in the Amöneburge Basin” and a one-day field excursion for German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) in the Rhenish Massif (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) and Westerwald

Uni Marburg

12./13.9.
2006

7 conference (Colloquium) with field excursion together with the working groupsoil science of the University of Oldenburg and the Regional Finance Office Hannover; field excursion: ”Pristine grounds and technosols (Kultosole) in moorland and geest”.

Uni Oldenburg

17./18.4.
2007

8 conference; series of lectures and workshop together with the working group soil information systems in soil science of DBG on ”conditions and view of the use of digital German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) data”; organiser: Hessian Agency for the Environment and Geology (HLUG), State Office of Geology and Mining Rhineland-Palatinate as well as the State Ministry of the Environment, Forests and Consumer Protection Rhineland-Palatinate

Mainz

2. - 9.9.
2007

Lecture block of the working group at the annual convention of DBG; field excursion to ”the possibilities and borders of the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung)”

Uni Dresden 2008

Reestablishment of the working group ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation” due to restructuring of DBG

11./12.9.
2008

9 conference; lecture and field excursion conference together with Thuringian Regional Finance Office and Thuringian State Institute for the Environment and Geology; various topics

Weimar

5. - 13.9.
2009

Annual convention of DBG; lecture on: ”75 years of German soil assessment law (BodSchätzG)”; field excursion: ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) in the Lower Rhine Basin (Niederrheinische Bucht), a strongly anthropogenic nature area”

Uni Bonn

7. - 9.9.
2010

10 conference; lecture symposium and field excursion together with State Office of the Environment, Agriculture and Geology Saxony and Regional Finance Office Chemnitz; different topics of the lectures; field excursion to the area of Görlitz on the topic: ”Describing soil profiles according to the Bodenschätzung law (BodSchätzG) and the mapping guidance, 5 edition”

Ostritz - St. Marienthal (Sachsen)

19. - 21.09.
2012

11 conference; organiser: State Office forEnvironmental Protection and OccupationalSafety, Department of Soil Protection and Forest Ecology together with the Bodenschätzung of the tax administration of the Saarland; Field excursion: ”Marginal land in a border area”

St. Wendel (Saarland)

7. - 12.9.
2013

Lecture block of the working group at the annual convention of DBG; field excursion: ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern using the example of federal samples”

Uni Rostock

24. - 26.09.
2014

12 conference (lecture symposium and field excursion) on ”Using German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) data for planning, soil protection and site assessment”; field excursion to the Upper Rhine Graben area near Pfungstadt; organisers: Oberfinanzdirektion/Regional Finance Office Frankfurt am Main and Hessian Agency for the Environment and Geology (HLUG)

OFD Frankfurt am Main

5. - 10.9.
2015

Lecture block of the working group at the annual convention of DBG; field excursion: "Federal samples of the German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) near Munich”

LMU and TU Munich 14. - 16.9. 2016

13 conference (lecture symposium and field excursion) on ”Using German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation in regions with intensive land use”; field excursion to the Ilm-Kreis district including Chernozems overlying Keuper and Regosols overlying Permian rocks (Rotliegend); organisers: Thuringian Agency for Environment and Geology (TLUG) and Landesfinanzdirektion/Thuringian Regional Finance Office

TU Ilmenau (Thuringia) 2. - 7.9. 2017 Field excursion ”German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation, area Göttingen/Germany"; organisers: Oberfinanzdirektion/Regional Finance Office Lower Saxony, Finance Office Göttingen and Lower Saxony Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG)
Uni Göttingen 12. - 14.9. 2018 14 conference (lecture symposium and field excursion) on ”Of loess concretions (Lösskindeln) and sandrabbits" - German soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation in southern Münsterland; field excursion to the southern Münsterland; organisers: Tax administration North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and Geological Survey NRW Haus Düsse - agricultural centre - in Bad Sassendorf (planned)

Cooperation

All those interested in "the German system of soil assessment (Bodenschätzung) and soil evaluation" are very welcome to get involved. Our working group has a long tradition as a platform for cooperation between soil scientists and soil assessment experts. Participants from both sides are welcome.

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Contact

Dr. Bernhard Keil
Oberfinanzdirektion (OFD)/Regional Finance Office
Zum Gottschalkhof 3
60594 Frankfurt am Main
Telefon: 069 / 58303 - 1347
Mobil: 0174 3428 521
Bernhard [dot] Keilofd [dot] hessen [dot] de

Wolfgang Brandtner
Brehmestraße 6
99423 Weimar
Telefon: 03643 / 502104
Mobil: 0172 9375160
Wolfgang [dot] Brandtnergmx [dot] de

Previously employed by
Thüringer Landesanstalt für Umwelt und Geologie/Thuringian Agency for Environment and Geology
Göschwitzer Str. 41
07745 Jena

The DBG Website

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Dr. Bernhard Keil	Wolfgang Brandtner
Oberfinanzdirektion/Regional Finance Office
Zum Gottschalkhof 3	Brehmestraße 6
D-60594 Frankfurt am Main	D-99423 Weimar
Phone +49 (0) 69 58303-1347	Phone +49 (0) 3643 502104
Betzergd [dot] nrw [dot] de	Bernhard [dot] Keilofd [dot] hessen [dot] de

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