Civil office construction
The Citizens’ Building Office is an important point of contact for people interested in building and all those involved in construction who have questions about building. It provides comprehensive information on all relevant topics and is the point of contact for all concerns related to the planning application process and other matters of building administration law.
The Citizens’ Building Office coordinates discussions with the clerks of the building administration as well as negotiations with other offices within the administration and the specialized authorities. This ensures that citizens’ concerns are dealt with effectively and swiftly.
At the Citizens’ Building Office, prospective builders can apply for a building permit under the simplified procedure, apply for a notification procedure, submit a preliminary building application or apply for a permit under the law on the protection of historical monuments, among other things. A certificate for tax incentives for the preservation of historical monuments as well as certificates of seclusion according to the German Condominium Act can also be applied for here.
In addition, prospective builders can obtain proof of the requirements for new buildings in accordance with the Renewable Energies Heat Act and take advantage of building consultations at the Citizens’ Building Office. In addition, it is possible to inspect the building encumbrance book, building files and building statics.
The Citizens’ Building Office is thus an important point of contact for all those interested in building and those involved in building. It offers comprehensive support and advice and helps to ensure that construction projects can be implemented successfully and smoothly.
Frequently asked questions
Building permits and building application
The construction, modification or change of use as well as the demolition of structural facilities are subject to approval.
For many projects, a building application must be submitted to the building authority and the building permit must be awaited. For certain building projects, the simplified building permit procedure is possible, which only provides for a limited examination.
In the case of other projects, you have the option of carrying out the so-called knowledge procedure.
The questions as to whether, when and how construction may be carried out on an existing building plot can best be clarified by means of a preliminary building application. This procedure gives you the opportunity to have individual questions clarified in advance before submitting the building application. Please formulate the individual questions to be answered in concrete terms.
If you as a building owner cannot or do not want to comply with the regulations of the state building code or a valid development plan with your building project for various reasons, you have the possibility to apply for a deviation, exception or exemption.
If you are planning to build, we recommend that you contact the Citizens’ Building Office as early as possible. In this way, fundamental questions can be clarified, which then accelerate the further course of the procedure.
Consultations are free of charge up to a duration of 15 minutes, thereafter fees are charged according to the valid fee statutes of the city of Calw.
Notice:
We ask you, as the applicant and planner, to provide us with the planning application documents and site plans in digital form in addition to the paper form (either on a data carrier, which will be destroyed after processing by us, or by e-mail).
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Heat laws - Renewable energies in heat supply
The federal government and the state of Baden-Württemberg have each enacted heating legislation to improve climate protection. The Federal Heat Act, called the Renewable Energies Heat Act (EEWärmeG), contains a regulation on the use of renewable energies in the heat supply of all new construction projects (residential and non-residential buildings).
The state’s heating law, called the Renewable Heat Act (EWärmeG), applies to residential and non-residential buildings when the heating system is replaced in an individual case.
Certificate of Completeness
Are you planning to sell the apartments in your apartment building individually or transfer an apartment to your child? Then you need, among other things, a certificate of seclusion and a partition plan in order to be able to form condominiums.
An application for a certificate of seclusion must be submitted to the Building Regulations Office using an application form (see below) or also by means of an informal letter.
The following are general instructions for the preparation of partition plans for submission to the building authority for the purpose of issuing a certificate of seclusion pursuant to § 7 para. 4 No. 2 in conjunction with § 3 para. 2 of the Condominium Act:
- Site plan scale 1:500
- All floor plans (including any undeveloped basement and attic spaces such as mezzanines, attics, etc., as far as usable)
- Sections and views
- Calculation of the co-ownership share (area calculation – specification in thousandths, see point 8)
Subdivision plans shall be in accordance with the plans approved by the building code.
- The certificate of seclusion confirms the seclusion of an apartment in itself as well as the adjoining rooms belonging to an apartment such as storage room, possibly cellar, laundry room, hobby room, etc. outside the apartment, also associated rooms outside.
- Each room of a dwelling, including the associated adjoining rooms and parking spaces/garages, shall be numbered.
- Common areas such as stairwell, corridors outside apartments, heating, fuel storage, laundry, common storage and drying rooms, etc. are not assigned a number, but are to be marked with the letter ‘G’.
- For the concept of a dwelling as the sum of rooms enabling the management of a household, the requirements of §§ 35-37 of the State Building Code apply, i.e. to each dwelling as the sum of living rooms with kitchen, bathroom and WC belongs a necessary storage room and a necessary parking space/garage.
- Each apartment as well as each room not used for residential purposes (=adjoining room, but also office, workshop, etc.) outside the apartment must be spatially self-contained and accessible via a common circulation area without using third-party partial ownership.
- Garage parking spaces in double, terraced and collective garages do not have to be physically self-contained but must be permanently marked.
- The building plot remains non-partitioned common property of the community of owners. This also applies to all structural facilities on the property, such as garages, garden sheds, storage sheds, tool sheds and wood storage sheds, unless these are assigned to a part ownership by appropriate marking or form an independent special property (with its own number).
- All structures on the parcel shall be shown on the drawings listed in 1. above.
- The co-ownership share of the respective unit in the common property shall be calculated and stated in thousandths.
A fee of 100.00 Euro per completed unit is charged for a certificate of completion in accordance with the currently valid fee statutes of the City of Calw.
Building file information
If you wish to inspect the building files of approved or already existing buildings, you must prove a legitimate interest. This means you must either be the owner of the land in question or have written consent from the owner.
Please contact us in advance by mail or phone, so that we can tell you whether and which construction files are available. We will then be happy to arrange an appointment with you at the Building Regulations Office during current opening hours, where the relevant files will then be available and can be inspected.
According to the valid fee statutes of the city of Calw, a fee of between 2.50 Euro and 100.00 Euro is charged for the information or inspection of building files, which is calculated according to the time spent.
If the building files are available in paper form, you can obtain copies (also color copies) up to DIN A3 format for a fee. Please pay for these copies directly at the city cashier’s office (in the adjacent building). It is not possible to release the construction files.
Determination of market value and property valuation
An expert opinion on the market value of a property can be provided by the Joint Expert Committee at the City of Calw or by an independent expert.
You can request a market value appraisal on the homepage of the appraisal committee.
Standard ground values
Important note on the topic of standard land value maps and property tax reform:
You can retrieve the required standard ground value for your property via the BORIS-BW portal(www.gutachterausschuesse-bw.de). For this you need the parcel number or the address of the property.
In the course of the upcoming property tax reform, the Joint Expert Committee at the City of Calw has determined standard ground values for the main assessment date 01.01.2022 for the municipalities of
- Althengstett
- Bad Herrenalb
- Bad Liebenzell
- Bad Teinach-Zavelstein
- Bad Wildbad
- Calw
- Dobel
- Enzklösterle
- Gechingen
- Höfen on the Enz
- Neubulach
- Neuweiler
- Oberreichenbach
- Ostelsheim
- Schömberg
- Simmozheim
- Unterreichenbach
published. These are used to determine the property tax value of a property as of that date.
§ 38 para. Section 1 of the Land Tax Act (LGrStG) provides as follows: “The land tax value of the properties is determined by multiplying their land area by the respective standard land value pursuant to Section 196 of the Building Code (BauGB). The standard land value of the standard land value property in the standard land value zone in which the property to be assessed is located is decisive.”
Standard ground values are, according to § 196 para. 1 sentence 3 BauGB, average land values as of the reporting date for areas that “largely” correspond in terms of type and degree of use (standard land value zones). The legal definition is given by § 13 para. 2 sentence 1 ImmoWertV to the effect that the property characteristics of the standard land value property “largely correspond to the predominant land and land-related value-influencing property characteristics” in the standard land value zone. No standard land values are determined for individual plots of land.
Conversely, this means that properties can also be located within a standard land value zone which, for example, do not sufficiently correspond to the standard land value property due to their size, their layout or with regard to their structural utilization. These cases have been deliberately accepted by the legislator and are generally to be accepted by the taxpayer. However, § 38 para. 4 LGrStG requires proof of a lower actual value if the actual value deviates by more than 30 percent.
Specifically, it states: “A different value of the land may be assessed upon application if the actual value of the land at the time of the main assessment, as evidenced by a qualified expert opinion, deviates by more than 30 percent from the value pursuant to paragraph 1 or 3. An appraisal is qualified if it has been prepared by the competent appraisal committee within the meaning of sections 192 et seq. of the Building Code or by persons who have been appointed or certified as experts or appraisers for the valuation of land by a state, state-recognized or DIN EN ISO/IEC 17024 accredited body.”
Should your property, due to special circumstances of the individual case, possibly fall under the “hardship provision” of Section 38 para. 4 LGrStG, you could apply for a qualified expert opinion on the actual value of the land at the main assessment date 01.01.2022 at the office of the Joint Expert Committee at the Großer Kreisstadt Calw.
Monument protection and preservation
The task of monument protection and preservation is to protect and maintain cultural monuments, in particular to monitor the condition of cultural monuments and to work towards averting threats and salvaging cultural monuments. This is regulated by the Monument Protection Act of Baden-Württemberg.
Cultural monuments within the meaning of this Act are objects, groups of objects and parts of objects in the preservation of which there is a public interest for scientific, artistic or local historical reasons. These can be, for example, buildings, statues, boundary stones, streets, squares or even townscapes.
Owners and occupants of cultural monuments must maintain and treat them with care within the bounds of what is reasonable. The state contributes to this through tax concessions and subsidies in accordance with the budgetary resources available.
A cultural monument may only be impaired in its appearance, demolished or removed from its surroundings with the permission of the monument protection authority, insofar as this is of essential importance for the monument value. As a result, changes to cultural monuments generally require approval under monument protection law. This also applies to measures on historical monuments that do not require building permits. If a building application is submitted at the same time, the building permit then also includes the decision under the Monument Protection Act.
The Lower Building Authority (Building Regulations Office) is also the Lower Monument Protection Authority. In the event of planned changes (including maintenance and repair work), we recommend that you contact us in good time. Otherwise, tax benefits may be lost. We also urgently advise you to consult monument conservators, architects and master craftsmen during the initial considerations and planning stages, as conversion work on cultural monuments requires a great deal of sensitivity and experience.
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