Is the right to roam really worth the loss of the fundamental freedom to shoot someone who steps on your lawn?
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What exactly are you talking about?
The video is from an American expat living in Germany with her family. Her video is originally in English.
YouTube started a feature where they auto translate videos to your assumed language. Might that be the case here?
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There is no German text when I look at the OP.
Post a screenshot, what client are you using?
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I stopped pretending being smart a while ago, so I’m genuinely lost 🙃 Also I don’t speak German, except I only know “kunsthistorisches” for some reason
I guess you visited vienna?
Exactly. But also when studying art history you find it on the captions of the manual
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England didn’t even when part of the EU.
England has limited right to roam plus public right of way. This effectively means that most land is accessible one way or another.
The vast majority of land isn’t open access though. Most woodlands and fields are privately owned and you are not allowed to walk through them.
We have public right of way, so you can definitely walk through them.
Only if there is a public footpath through it. Otherwise you are trespassing if you don’t have the land owners permission
Why would you walk over an overgrown field?
You would typically walk around the edge of it, but you don’t have permission to do that either and we don’t have the right to roam here. Also not all land is agricultural fields, pasture and woodland for example.
In Spain its also forbidden to own beaches. You can wander any beach with no restriction.
In Estonia, one may not prevent passage along the beach of a body of water (sea, lake, river).
Some land owners try. It’s legal to ignore them and travel along the shore, but if a river valley is densely settled and every tenth person has built a fence too far, it becomes somewhat harder to fish there.
As for dry land - if it’s not fenced in, then from dawn to dusk, without damaging crops or landscape, one is allowed to roam on foot, with a bike or boat, on skis or riding a horse.
Unless the owner forbids:
- by default, it’s allowed to set up a tent for up to 24 hours
- by default, it’s allowed to pick the fruit and herbs of naturally growing plants and mushrooms (not planted or sown) and fallen wood
Making a fire is another matter. For this, getting the agreement of the owner is required. It’s also totally forbidden by fire departments at certain times.