Village development

Since March 2023, applications for funding from village development funds can no longer be submitted in paper form, but exclusively via an online application portal. The corresponding online link(https://agrarportal-hessen.de/) is provided here. The funding programme is stored under the tile "Investment funding" and there under the tile "Village development" or "Village moderation" (municipalities only) . The prerequisite for submitting an online application is an initial urban planning consultation on the building project by the relevant advisory office for the respective funding priority. The contact details of the advisory office can be obtained from the municipality or the funding office in the district, village and regional development department. The following information and documents must be kept ready for processing the online application, as they will be required in the course of processing the application:

Information for registration:

• Personal identity (available if an application has already been submitted in the past)
• Address
• E-mail address
• Bank details (IBAN, BIC, name of bank)
• Object address, if no address is available, if applicable, cadastral data (cadastral area, cadastral parcel, district, district name).

Documents to be uploaded

• Identity card front and back (in case of spouses and owners' associations both identity cards)
• Counselling protocol of the counselling office
• Photos of the object, outside and also inside, if construction measures are to be carried out in the interior area.
• Cost estimate by an architect according to DIN 276 or at least 2 comparative offers or evaluation of reference overviews.

Completed form Building Energy Act

Completed form Confirmation of bank details

Additional documents depending on the funding object or subject of the application:

• Confirmation of financing for investments over € 50,000 by bank statements, loan confirmations; for municipal projects by committee resolutions/extract from budget plan
• Proof/confirmation from the monument authority if the object is a cultural monument
• Listed building approval for the project
• Building permit with installations
• Proof of legal construct (e.g. association statutes, minutes of the last board elections, GbR contract)
• Proof/notification if other public funds have already been applied for or granted
• Use agreements, lease agreements, rental agreements

Completed form Net revenue for projects in the area of sales, rentals or services

Completed Declaration of Readiness for Credit form

Completed form Identification and group affiliation Company

Completed form Self-declaration Municipalities EU Sanctions Russia

• Form_Loan_Readiness_Declaration.pdf
• Form_Table_Calculation_Net_Income.xlsx
• Form_Self-Declaration_Komm_Russl_Sanctions.pdf
• Form_confirmation_building_energy_law.pdf
• Form_Declaration_Identification_Group_Affiliation.pdf
• Form_Confirmation_Bank_Account.pdf

Funding application

Bank confirmation

Disbursement request