Wildcamping – Wikipedia

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When Wildcamping (also Wild camp ) is called the night of people in mobile accommodations such as tents, caravans or motorhomes away from designated camping facilities and parking spaces. If you stay in tents, one often speaks of wild camp .

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The legal basis for wildcamping is regulated differently in the countries of the European Union [first] And can also be handled differently within a country, depending on the region. [2] While in some countries there are explicit laws regarding wild camping, in most countries it is indirectly prohibited by a combination of different laws, such as trespassing and property damage. While the wild camps are not officially allowed in a large part of the countries, it is tolerated in many cases. An exception is above all the Scandinavian countries, in which wild camping is officially permitted on the basis of everyone’s rights, if corresponding rules are taken into account.

In addition to the legal foundations, there are also rules of conduct, which should be taken into account within the wildcamper community-which the wildcamping regarded as very close to nature. Above all, these rules aim not to damage nature, to avoid protected areas and to leave the surfaces used as you found it. [3]

Germany [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In the federal states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, the state nature conservation laws allow non-motorized travelers (hikers, cyclists, canoe hikers, riders and others) to set up tents in free landscape, provided that there are no special protective regulations and the campaign “Allowed under private law”, that is, permitted by the property owner. [4] Exceptions: In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, national parks, national natural monuments and nature reserves are generally excluded from permission to camp, it is prohibited in coastal dunes and on beach walls. In Schleswig-Holstein, tents in coastal dunes, on beach walls and on the marine beach is prohibited.

In some regions of Germany there are nature storage places (“trekking places”), where camping in the open landscape is officially permitted. In other federal states other than the federal states mentioned at the beginning, such places are the only way to legally tents outside of managed campsites and privately owned terrain. [5]

Austria [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Wild camping is fundamentally prohibited in Austria; Camping is only permitted in designated places. The competence for the publication of the legal rules lies with the federal states, which is why the rules can also vary within Austria. (See game camping in Austria)

Poland [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Wildcamping was fundamentally prohibited in Poland until 2021. However, no fines are imposed. In 2020, a pilot project with 46 for wildcamping for wildcamping was carried out by an increasing need for recovery in nature during the Covid 19 pandemic in Poland. Subsequently, a total of 425 forest areas with a total area of ​​over 600,000 hectares for wild camping were released by the state forest companies. Wildcamping has been allowed in these areas since May 2021. There, on a maximum of two consecutive days in the same place under a tarpaulin (e.g. tarps), can be overnight in a hammock or in the tent. At some of these places, the use of gas cookers is also explicitly allowed, campfires may be created at the fireplaces designated. Groups of ten or more people have to register wild camping in advance with the responsible forest administration. [6]

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Switzerland [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In Switzerland, as part of the right to get into everyone, the night is generally allowed in a small tent or in a bivouac. In general, locations above the forest and tree line are considered harmless, near alpine and mountain huts a permit should be obtained beforehand. An overnight stay in the tent should be avoided at ecologically sensitive locations, for example in forests, meadows and wetlands. Free camping is prohibited in protected areas. Special hiking maps show such areas. [7] Some municipalities or regions prohibit wild camps. [8]

  1. ↑ Wild camps: Overview of all EU countries – where can I? In: Outdoornet. Retrieved on September 27, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Wildcampen in Europa. In: Caravaryya.com. Retrieved on September 27, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Wild camps: 6 tips for free tents. In: Bergzeit magazine. 18. June 2019, Retrieved on September 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ § 22 (1) 2 Bbgnatschag , § 44(4)2 BbgNatSchG , § 28 NATISHANCE M-V , § 37 LNatSchG SH .
  5. ↑ Wild camps: rules in Germany and Europe. In: BeyondCamping. Accessed on February 9, 2022 .
  6. ↑ Poland allows wild camps in 425 forest areas. Accessed on May 2, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Camping and bivouification in the Swiss mountains with regard to nature and the environment. (PDF) (no longer available online) Swiss Alpine Club SAC, archived from Original am March 21, 2015 ; accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Biviwak ban. In: Alternatives-Wandern.ch. Accessed on August 6, 2018 .

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