Living on agricultural land: What are the options?

Questioner

We want to buy a house with some land in the countryside. The zoning plan is agricultural, can I live here as a citizen or does the zoning plan have to be changed? And how complicated is that?

Lawyer

If the plot where you want to live has an agricultural destination, then only an agricultural entrepreneur may live there. The buildings on an agricultural plot may only be used for agricultural business operations. New and additional buildings on an agricultural plot are also tested for agricultural business operations. Only if the building is necessary for the management and supervision of the agricultural business is it permitted. If you would like to live there as a non-agricultural entrepreneur, the zoning plan will have to be changed, or you will have to be exempted from the provisions in the zoning plan. The extent to which such an exemption from the provisions in the zoning plan is possible depends on what has been determined in the zoning plan (internal plan exemption) and on the policy of the municipality in this regard (external plan exemption).