Städtebauförderprogramme Lebendige Zentren, Sozialer Zusammenhalt, Wachstum und nachhaltige Erneuerung beantragen

The federal and state governments attach great importance to urban development funding as a key program for the future-proof, sustainable and modern development of cities and municipalities in Germany.

Purpose of the grant

1. In accordance with the provisions of the European Union, the Building Code, the corresponding administrative agreements between the federal government and the federal states, these guidelines and the administrative regulations on Section 44 of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Budget Code (hereinafter referred to as LHO), the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern grants subsidies for urban redevelopment and development measures as overall measures. As the recipient of the grant, the municipality is responsible for the preparation, implementation and execution of overall urban development measures as a self-administration task.
2. The grants are intended to remedy or significantly and sustainably alleviate area-related urban development deficiencies in the municipalities and in this way also improve the framework conditions for private investment.
3. The state offers the cities and municipalities receiving funding expert advice based on the experience of previous funding practice in order to facilitate well-considered municipal decisions on the effective elimination of urban development problems.
4. Financial assistance for urban development funding is granted without legal entitlement on the basis of dutiful discretion within the scope of available budget funds.
5. In accordance with the principle of subordination, financial assistance can only be granted if the municipality is not in a position to finance the overall measure with its own budget funds and does not receive sufficient financial assistance from other sources. Due to the limited amount of funds available, funding can only be considered for important and rapidly progressing overall urban development measures.

Object of the grant

Overall urban development measure

1. The object of the grant is the overall urban redevelopment and development measure within the meaning of Sections 136 to 164b and Sections 165 to 171 of the German Building Code (hereinafter referred to as BauGB) as a unit. Individual urban development projects that are independent of the area (e.g. buildings or church buildings that are characteristic of the area), which fit into an overall urban development concept and with which urban development or structural policy objectives are pursued, can also be the subject of funding (individual projects of urban development significance).
2. With the exception of individual projects of urban development significance within the meaning of paragraph 1 sentence 2, individual measures can only be funded as part of an overall measure. The use of funds from different urban development funding programs for individual measures is possible.
3. Several redevelopment areas that are in a planning and spatial context can be combined into an overall measure.
4. The delimitation and modification of the area of the overall measure as the object of the funding requires the approval of the Ministry.
5. Expenditure on individual regulatory or construction measures decided by the municipality that are carried out before the formal definition of the redevelopment or development area is deemed to be expenditure in preparation for the redevelopment if it is guaranteed that these measures correspond to the objectives and purposes of the redevelopment and the Ministry's prior approval has been granted.
6. Insofar as exemptions pursuant to A 2.1 (5) have been granted for construction and planning measures that are located outside the redevelopment area after formal designation, the expenditure incurred after the statutes became legally binding or already triggered by orders can be attributed to the further preparation of an overall measure, insofar as it would otherwise have been eligible for funding under these guidelines.

Significant individual urban development projects within the meaning of A 2.1 (1) sentence 2 do not need to be allocated to an assisted area as defined in the Building Code by statute or otherwise. An individual project of urban development significance may comprise several related individual measures. They can only be funded if financial assistance is available that permits this. The eligible expenditure is calculated in accordance with the provisions of these guidelines, taking into account earmarked income and contributions from other funding bodies. The application is based on Annex 5 of these guidelines.

The following individual measures can also be funded outside the formally defined redevelopment area with the prior consent of the Ministry:

1. development facilities necessitated by the redevelopment (Section 147 sentence 3 BauGB),
2. Replacement buildings (new construction and modernization/repairs; Section 148 (1) sentence 2 BauGB),
3. Replacement facilities and communal and follow-up facilities resulting from the redevelopment (section 148 (1) sentence 2 BauGB),
4. Acquisition of land from an agricultural or forestry business and other businesses located both inside and outside the formally defined redevelopment area (Section 145 (5) sentence 2 BauGB),
5. expenditure on land required as replacement or substitute land.

Recipient of the grant

The recipient of the grant is the municipality.

Type and scope, amount of the grant

The municipality can grant urban development funding to third parties as

• Grant,
• Loans (the annuity must be at least five percent),
• grant or loan to reduce the cost of other loans,
• loans for preliminary or interim financing.

The scope and content of the application documents are set out in Section A 7.2 of the StBauFR. The StBauFR can be accessed on the homepage of the Ministry of Energy under the following link:

General funding requirements

Urban development funds are the funds made available by the municipality, the district, the state, including federal financial assistance and the European Union, to cover the expenditure of overall urban development measures. The federal and state financial assistance may only be used by the municipality at the same time as or after the required own funds; the regulations of the European Union apply with priority to the funds of the European Union.

Due to the particular budgetary situation of a municipality, the Ministry may, on the basis of generally published principles, permit by individual decision that funds raised by the subsidized owner be counted as the municipality's own contribution if there are concrete indications that the investments would otherwise not be made. The municipal contribution must amount to at least ten percent of the eligible expenditure.

Urban development funding is granted on condition that

• the overall measure has been included in the urban development funding program and
• the municipality has made available or is making available its privately usable land and rights to privately usable land in accordance with D 4.

With regard to the realization of individual measures within the meaning of these guidelines, the medium and long-term effects with regard to the demographic development of the municipality or district (e.g. population decline, population structure) must be taken into account.

Special grant conditions

The granting of financial assistance for redevelopment and development measures requires that the municipality has decided to commence preparatory investigations in accordance with Section 141 (3) or preliminary investigations in accordance with Section 165 (4) BauGB and has published this decision in the official gazette or has already formally defined the redevelopment or development area in accordance with Section 142 (3) in conjunction with Section 143 (1), Section 165 (6) in conjunction with Section 165 (8) BauGB.

The grant period begins on 1 January of the year in which the overall measure was first included in the urban development funding program.

The grant period ends when the redevelopment statutes pursuant to Section 162 or the development statutes pursuant to Section 169(1)(8) BauGB are revoked, but no later than December 31 of the year after next following the disbursement of the last cash installment, unless otherwise stipulated by the Ministry. After this date, only settlement-related income and expenditure will be taken into account. Funding from the state concludes with the notification of the determination of the grants on the basis of the final settlement of the overall measure (final approval notice).

3 - 6 months

Applications for funding from municipalities for inclusion in the 2020 urban development funding programmes as well as status reports for overall measures that have not yet been invoiced must be submitted to the Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Digitization in accordance with letters A 7.1 and A 7.7 of the urban development funding guidelines of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (StBauFR).
The application deadline for the 2020 program year is 15 January 2020.

Information from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and the Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on urban development funding programmes:

Federal and state urban development funding

• The federal and state governments attach great importance to urban development funding as a key program for the future-proof, sustainable and modern development of cities and municipalities in Germany. Due to demographic change and changes in usage conditions and interests, municipalities are facing major adaptation requirements and urban development transformation processes. This applies in particular to the preservation of lively and identity-forming city and town centers, measures for climate protection or adaptation to climate change as well as the creation of living space and needs-based and future-oriented infrastructures. The overarching aim of urban development funding is to enable participation and exchange in social life for all, thereby strengthening social cohesion. The federal and state governments therefore see urban development promotion as an important social, structural, domestic, environmental and municipal policy task.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Funding Institute (licensing authority)
Sandra Luther, Tel.: +49 385 6363-1375
Ramona Hedrich, Phone: +49 385 6363-1317

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Funding Institute (granting authority),
Ministry for Energy, Infrastructure and Digitization M-V

The 2023 program call and the application documents can be downloaded by the municipalities and redevelopment agencies from the following homepage