The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) promotes measures for the protection and preservation of monuments. An important pillar of monument promotion is the monument preservation program "Nationally Valuable Cultural Monuments". The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) decides annually on the selection of objects and the amount of funding.
You can receive funding for the following measures:

• Preservation and restoration of immovable cultural monuments of national value:
  • architectural monuments
  • historic parks and gardens
  • ground monuments

Cultural monuments are of national value if they contain exemplary

• architectural
• urban development,
• historical,
• political,
• or scientific achievements or
• if the cultural monument has made a significant contribution to the development of a cultural landscape or the state as a whole as a cultural nation.

You will not receive funding for

• measures not recognized by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments,
• Renovation work,
• conversion and use-related modernization measures,
• building maintenance and operation,
• movable monuments,
• monuments directly owned by the federal states.

Eligible costs are

• Expenditure that serves to preserve the substance and restore cultural monuments and their essential components.

You must prove that you have spent the grant on the preservation of a cultural monument. Among other things, you must keep all invoices and receipts relating to the eligible costs. You submit your application to the ZM I 6 department (BKM grants) at the Federal Office of Administration (BVA). You are not entitled to funding approval.

Information on further funding opportunities from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM):
You can obtain further funding via the special monument protection programs of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM).