Monument protection

  • Performance specification

    The task of monument protection and preservation is to protect and maintain monuments, to research them scientifically and to impart knowledge about monuments. The aim is to guide monuments towards sensible uses that are in harmony with today's requirements. The protection of monuments is in the public interest; interventions in the protected building fabric must always be weighed up.

  • Legal basis

    In 1980, the protection of historical monuments was enshrined in law in North Rhine-Westphalia.

    In 2022, the North Rhine-Westphalia Monument Protection Act (DSchG NRW) was reissued and came into force on 1 June 2022.

    Objects that are entered in the list of monuments are subject to the provisions of the North Rhine-Westphalia Monument Protection Act (DSchG NRW). The list of mon uments is maintained by the town of Beckum as the lower monument authority.


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