Flurbereinigung

Unlike the land reforms carried out in the socialist countries of the Eastern Bloc, including East Germany, the idea of Flurbereinigung was not so much to distribute large quasi-feudal holdings to the formerly landless rural workers and/or to kolkhoz-style cooperatives, but rather to correct the situation where after centuries of equal division of the inheritance of small farmers among their heirs and unregulated sales, most farmers owned many small non-adjacent plots of land, making access and cultivation difficult and inefficient.

After criticism about loss of biodiversity caused by large-scale land reforms began to be voiced in the late 1970s, the restoration of the natural environment became another objective.

The idea was first to restructure the landholdings by consolidating geographically unconnected fields under the same ownership, thus reducing labor and cultivation costs.

[2] Many German wine regions, like the Mosel, have their vineyards planted on steep terraces along riverbanks to maximize the climate benefits of the nearby river.

Another disadvantage was the lack of ideal drainage in some of these vineyards where either too much or too little water was retained for the vine to sustain quality production.

Public roads and infrastructure such as channels are built, creeks are straightened, land improvement is carried out, and the landscape is rearranged according to regional development and country planning.

Moreover, due to the inclination of the terraces in springtime (blooming time of the wine) cold air settled, leading to frequent frost damage to the crops.