-owned estates had to be dissolved within a short period of time. 26 000 individual farms and 3 000 partnerships have been established. The successors of collective and state farms cultivate still on average more than 1 000 ha farmland. The individual
, medium-sized farms in the new Länder are even more profitable than their counterparts in the West. - (HPB)
The differences in prosperity between city and rural regions, which were already manifest in the GDR, have become more pronounced in the course of the transformation process. The qualitative improvements in quality of life often took place
at the expense of accessibility, and therefore disadvantaged the less mobile population groups. The thinning out of the infrastructural network has primarily affected the more sparsely populated regions so far, as well as the services provided for young people
from 300 Mt in 1989 to 64 Mt in 1998. The former mining areas were introduced a recultivation programme, financed by the federal government and the Länder. Until 1999 more than 10 milliard DM had been expended for the land restoration ; new post-mining
more than half of its previous volume of transports, and road transport of goods increase to a similar position as in the West. The development of personal transport in the new Länder is characterised by a previously unseen growth in motorised
In comparison to the old Länder, where only 1,7% of the population live in large housing estates with more than 2500 flats, in the new Länder the proportion is at 23%. Since 1990 to the deficiencies in the dormitory suburbs new problems were added
In eastern Germany the services first gained importance following unification. So far western Germany has a much more diverse selection of high-grade enterprise-oriented services, which are concentrated in several internationally interlinked centres