The Free Voters want to preserve typical sounds and smells as a "sensory heritage" The initiative is intended to defuse disputes among neighbors in the countryside. A corresponding Bundesrat initiative from Bavaria fizzled out.
Now the parliamentary group is "emphatically calling on all other federal states" to join in and "fight together for the preservation of sensory heritage in rural areas" The group leader Florian Streibl refers to France, where there have been rules for sensory heritage since 2021.