Nationalpark Jasmund

To protect natural areas and scenic areas of national and international importance for spiritual, scientific, educational, tourist, or recreational purposes. And to preserve characteristic examples of physiographic regions, communities, genetic resources, and species in as natural a condition as possible to ensure environmental stability and diversity.

Species of Concern: Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)

Restrictions

A. All actions that may lead to the destruction, damage or alteration of the National Park or its components, or to a lasting impairment or disturbance, are prohibited. In particular, it is prohibited to:
1. erect or modify structures and advertising media, even if no building permit is required. This also applies to the erection of booths and mobile or permanent sales stands.
2. take coastal protection measures.
3. remove soil components, carry out blasting, drilling, and excavations, fill or introduce materials of any kind, or change the ground relief.
4. drive or park motor vehicles of any kind or caravans outside the carriageways of roads and paths dedicated to public traffic and signposted parking and rest areas, ride horses or horse-drawn vehicles outside of expressly permitted paths, and cycle on marked hiking trails and outside of designated paths and roads.
5. use other mechanically powered vehicles.
6. leave paths, with the exception of the gravel beach between Sassnitz and Lohme.
7. introduce plants and parts of plants, or to remove, damage, or impair their continued existence,
8. to fish,
9. to release animals or stalk wild animals, to feed them, deliberately disturb them, catch or kill them, or to remove, damage, or destroy their developmental forms, their nesting, breeding, living, or refuge sites,
10. to alter natural watercourses and bodies of water, their banks, and water drainage, or to extract water beyond local drinking water and common use, or to lower the groundwater,
11. to apply fertilizers, pesticides, other chemicals, as well as liquid manure, sewage sludge, or wastewater,
12. to spend the night or camp outside permanent buildings, to set up caravans or mobile homes,
13. to take off or land any type of aircraft or to operate model aircraft,
14. to operate watercraft, including models, or water sports equipment within a 500 m radius wide zone from the shore,
15. To install, remove, or alter picture and text panels, memorial stones, and path markers without the permission of the National Park Office,
16. To throw away or deposit waste of any kind, to wash or maintain vehicles, or to otherwise pollute the landscape, including waterways,
17. To let dogs run free,
18. To make noise and to use sound and image transmission devices, sound and image reproduction devices, or radio devices outside of buildings or vehicles,
19. To light fires,
20. To hold organized events of any kind, except for events under the direction or with the permission of the National Park Office,
21. To clear-cut or remove naturally occurring deadwood, as well as to plant non-native trees,
22. To carry out commercial and maintenance measures from February 1 to July 31 of each year within 300 m of the breeding grounds of eagles, cranes, black storks, big hawks and owls and within 150 m of the reproductive and breeding sites of other endangered species without Approval of the National Park Authority,
23. Carrying equipment that can be used exclusively or predominantly for prohibited activities.

Allowed

A. The following are exempt from the prohibitions:
1. urgent measures to protect the population and to avert dangers to life and limb, as well as to significant material assets,
2. measures by the National Park Office that serve exclusively the purpose of protection,
3. the use of motor vehicles on closed roads and paths by members of state administrations or their agents for absolutely necessary official journeys, as well as by others with the approval of the National Park Office,
4. outside of Protection Zone I, the proper agricultural land use within the meaning of the Federal Nature Conservation Act of previously agriculturally used areas, with the exception of mineral fertilization in Protection Zone II,
5. the previous intended use of buildings, including the associated areas,
6. the creation of clear-cuts in Protection Zone III up to an area of three hectares, and in Protection Zone II only insofar as they serve the purpose of protection.
B. Navigation on federal waterways with watercraft, recreational craft or water sports equipment and remote-controlled ship models is permitted, provided users of federal waterways always conduct themselves in such a way that the flora and fauna are not harmed, endangered, or disturbed more than is unavoidable under the circumstances, and provided that navigation is not prohibited or, in the case of a prohibition, an exemption has been granted.