About the initiative
Bürgerinitiative PRO Gewerbepark MN e.V. is a registered German association formed by residents of Maring-Noviand and the surrounding Moselle villages. This page covers who we are, how we are registered, where we sit, and what we do week to week on the proposed business park project.
Registered at Amtsgericht Wittlich · Registration VR 42283 · Based in Maring-Noviand, Germany
Registration and legal identity
The association is a matter of public record. Anyone can check its entry at the local court responsible for our district, and the registration is the basis on which we sign correspondence, hold a bank account, and publish positions under our name.
Registration entries can be verified with Amtsgericht Wittlich directly. If you spot a discrepancy between this page and the court register, write to us and we will correct the entry with a dated note in the document archive.
Where Maring-Noviand is
Maring-Noviand sits on the Moselle in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district of Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. The village is made up of the two historic parts that give it its name, and the surrounding land is a mix of vineyards, forest, and river valley.
The proposed Gewerbepark site lies inside this municipal area. That is why the association documenting it is a local one: the residents who read the drafts, walk the parcel edges, and sit in the council sessions are the same people keeping the record. A distance office could not follow the file the way the village does.
Why the association was founded
Agendas, drafts, and site sketches circulated faster than residents could collect them. The association exists so that one dated, sourced record exists for everyone.
Comparing versions of the project by hand was slow, and the people joining the conversation later had no way to catch up. Forming the association changed that: the documents are gathered in one place, each entry carries a date, and every entry links to where it came from.
Members of the association are residents of Maring-Noviand and the surrounding villages, including people who moved here after the discussion started. Voting on published positions happens at general meetings, and the outcome of each vote is minuted and filed with the rest of the record.
What the association does — and what it is not
Collecting the file
We gather planning documents, correspondence, and public-session material relevant to the proposed Gewerbepark, through normal administrative channels and public access.
Publishing dated entries
Each published item carries its own date and links to the source it came from, so a reader can follow the trail back to the original document or session.
Writing our own positions
Where the association takes a view, it is written in our own words and labelled as a position, not dressed up as a fact from a document.
Answering questions
Residents, journalists, and council members write to us to check a fact. Monthly meetings are open to members, and the notes from those meetings are filed in the document archive.
Membership and participation
Membership is open to residents and to anyone with a documented interest in the Maring-Noviand area. Annual dues are set at the general meeting and recorded in the minutes — they are not fixed by the board alone.
You do not need to be a member to use this site, submit a question, or request a correction. If you want voting rights on the association's published positions, membership is the route.
Contact the associationHow the association is organised
A board elected by the general meeting handles day-to-day work, including maintaining this site and the document archive. Decisions on published positions are taken at meetings and minuted.
Those minutes are filed in the archive with a date, so a position can always be traced to the meeting that adopted it. If the trail is ever unclear, request a correction and it will be checked against the file.
Open the document archiveWorking with the municipality
We request documents through normal administrative channels and attend public sessions where the project is on the agenda. Our questions are submitted in writing so the answers can be published.
Where a request is refused or delayed, we note that too. The record of what was asked and not answered is part of the documentation.
Funding and independence
The association is funded by member dues and, where applicable, small local donations.
We do not accept funding from project developers or from parties with a commercial interest in the Gewerbepark decision. That rule exists so that no one can reasonably claim our documentation was bought, and it is recorded in the association's own meeting minutes.
Reach us
Questions about the association's structure, dues, or registration can go to [email protected] or by phone at +49 6535 944430. Letters go to Im Webersgarten 25, 54484 Maring-Noviand, Germany. The contact page also carries a map of the office location.
