Altstadt | old down town district |
Bebauungsplan | master plan |
CS | contaminated site |
Flächennutzungsplan | regional plan |
FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
GDR | German Democratic Republic |
Land | a German state (singular) |
Länder | the German states (plural) |
new Länder | the states which make up the former German Democratic Republic |
old Länder | the states which make up the former Federal Republic of Germany |
PPP | polluter-pays principle |
Treuhandanstalt | federal privatization agency set up after reunification |