Development plan in the outer area statute

Hello everyone,

we are absolute beginners when it comes to this forum and also the topic of house construction.

We have been offered a plot of land that is located in an Außenbereichssatzung. We have received the development plan, which I am attaching as an image file. In the plan, we do not find any information on the floor space index or the plot ratio - so what is allowed now? Also, we do not understand the term "Kniestock unzulässig" in construction types 3.1.1 (UG+EG+DG) and 3.2.2 (EG+OG).

How should I understand this - or what could we build with this development plan? Sorry for the ignorance, maybe one of you can help us.

Best regards

In the plan we find no information about floor area ratio or plot ratio – so what is actually permitted?

In my opinion, whatever fits the external appearance. It would be advantageous to submit a building inquiry in the outer area. I know it this way: you are only allowed to build in the outer area if you operate a rural business or agriculture. I must admit, I don't understand the first sentence as it is. So if you are allowed to build without a business, then

We also do not understand the term "Kniestock not allowed" in building method 3.1.1 (basement + ground floor + attic) and building method 3.2.2 (ground floor + upper floor)..

Regarding 3.1.1 if the slope is over 1.50, additionally the basement (open cellar), ground floor as full storey, roof converted without knee wall. So no external knee wall, inside you can slope the walls. Dormers for room lighting are permitted in the form stated there. Regarding 3.2.2 two full storeys, but then without converted attic and consequently without dormers, because you don’t need them. 3.2.1 allows a 0.8 knee wall. That is not much, but some companies, e.g. Heinz von Heiden, also build that. Inside you can of course slope the walls again so that you can at least sit in bed. Everything else explains itself. If not, ask. Do you have a slope on the property? How large is it?

we are complete beginners when it comes to this forum and also the topic of house construction. We have been offered a plot of land that is located in an outlying area ordinance. We have received the development plan, which I am attaching as an image file.

I am quite an old-timer in this forum ;-) and even deal professionally with house construction, but this is the first time I have heard of a development plan in an outlying area. Outlying area and development plan are actually a contradiction. An outlying area is characterized by the fact that almost no one is allowed to build almost anything there, simply put: farms only for farmers, forester’s houses only for foresters, hunting lodges only for hunters, power poles for the public, and otherwise mostly almost nothing and next to that only tiniest exceptions. A classic development plan with illustrations would have interested me a lot, even if it really couldn’t exist in this sense. What you have attached are excerpts from "textual stipulations" to such a plan. Floor area ratio and plot ratio would astonish me once again in the environment of hectare-sized normal plots *LOL*, and are even more dispensable here.

Who are you (charcoal burner, glassblower, ...) that you are even allowed to operate a business in the outlying area and live there???

Likewise, we do not understand the term "knee wall not allowed" in construction method 3.1.1 (basement + ground floor + attic) and construction method 3.2.2 (ground floor + upper floor).

3.1. is to be applied when the height difference of the plot is measured steeper than one and a half meters in the area of the house footprint and with regard to the house depth. Then a basement is permitted here and the ground floor on its uphill side may begin 0.3 meters above the ground surface; 3.2. is to be applied when the slope is flatter than the mentioned scale. Then no basement is allowed (i.e., there is a cellar or only a slab under the ground floor) and above the ground floor there follows a convertible attic with rather symbolic knee walls (3.2.1) or an upper floor and an attic with practically no knee wall. To compensate for the upper floor instead of just an attic, the roof pitch is flatter here. The gables are each classically planned on the short sides of the house, and clearly elongated floor plan proportions are desired. The "square city villa" is clearly excluded here. Also, dormers are always mentioned here, not cross-gables, and a captain’s gable is absolutely out of the question - such pagan architectural elements are personally banned by Maria from Bavarian meadows ;-)

"Knee wall not allowed" means that unlike the only symbolically permitted small knee wall of the habitable attic in the “one and a half story” the attic above the upper floor of a "two-story" must have its rafters lie flush without any gap on the top floor ceiling - period, apples, amen.