This is where all staffing, legal and budgetary issues are dealt with, where the real estate holdings are managed from and the day-to-day operations are overseen. Aside from the Administration Department, Großkühnau also houses specialist departments looking after gardens, historic houses and restoration works respectively. Furthermore there are two units (»Referate«) with responsibility for public relations on the one hand and the production of publications and photographs and the running of the library and archives respectively