Regional association Saarbrücken
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ' N , 6 ° 58' E |
| Basic data | |
| State : | Saarland |
| Administrative headquarters : | Saarbrücken |
| Area : | 410.64 km 2 |
| Residents: | 328,714 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 800 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | SB, (VK) |
| Circle key : | 10 0 41 |
| NUTS : | DEC01 |
| Circle structure: | 10 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Schlossplatz 66119 Saarbrücken |
| Website : | |
| District Administrator : | Peter Gillo ( SPD ) |
| Location of the regional association Saarbrücken in Saarland | |
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The Saarbrücken regional association is a municipal association in Saarland . The seat of the regional association and its committees is Saarbrücken . The Saarbrücken Castle is essentially the official seat .
It was created on January 1, 2008 as part of an administrative structural reform decided by the Saarland State Parliament on November 27, 2007 as the legal successor to the Saarbrücken City Association and is a special kind of municipal association . The regional association differs from the city association mainly through a changed organ structure.
geography
location
The Saarbrücken regional association has a share in the central Saar Valley, the Warndt and the Saar-Nahe-Bergland . The Saar flows through the association area from the French border near Saargemünd in the southeast to behind Völklingen in the northwest.
The largest and most important city of the regional association is the state capital Saarbrücken, the smallest municipality is Großrosseln .
Adjacent counties and arrondissements
The regional association Saarbrücken borders in a clockwise direction in the west on the districts of Saarlouis , Neunkirchen and the Saarpfalz district (all Saarland ). In the south it borders on the French arrondissements Forbach and Sarreguemines ( Moselle department ).
history
The Saarbrücken city association was established on January 1st, 1974 as part of the regional and administrative reform of the Saarland. It was formed from the previously independent state capital Saarbrücken , the district of Saarbrücken apart from the community of Rentrisch and the communities of Ensheim and Eschringen from the dissolved district of St. Ingbert . As a result of the municipal reform taking place at the same time, the city association was divided into ten municipalities, five of which had municipal rights. This created a regional body that was unique in all of Germany and resembled a district in terms of its function, but took on more far-reaching tasks for the municipalities belonging to the city association.
The district of Saarbrücken was formed in 1816 when Prussia divided its provinces into administrative districts and administrative districts. Prussia came into possession of the areas on the Saar in 1815, after the Second Peace of Paris , when the border with France was redefined and the former German duodec chiefs in the southwest of the Old Kingdom were officially dissolved. Historically, the city association largely coincided with the former county of Saarbrücken , whose heraldic animals (the silver lions of the Counts of Saarbrücken and the golden lions of Nassau ) are featured in the city association's coat of arms .
With the administrative structural reform law, which the state parliament of Saarland passed on November 21, 2007 with the votes of the CDU majority faction, the city association was transferred to the Saarbrücken regional association on January 1, 2008. The main difference to the previous organizational structure is the creation of a cooperation council made up of representatives of the municipalities belonging to the association, which, in addition to the regional assembly directly elected by the population, handles parts of self-administration matters. The constitutional admissibility of this new type of construct is doubted by well-known legal scholars (for example in an expert report by the German District Association commissioned by the Saarbrücken city association).
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1974 | 389,700 | |
| 1980 | 365,400 | |
| 1990 | 361,400 | |
| 2000 | 350,900 | |
| 2010 | 332,333 | |
| 2016 | 329,593 |
religion
The majority of the population (approx. 60%) belong to the Roman Catholic Church. Historically, the situation was different, since the Reformation with the Lutheran confession was introduced in the county of Saarbrücken in 1575 . As early as the 17th century, with the planned settlement of Reformed Huguenots and, under pressure from Louis XIV's reunion policy , with the re-admission of the Catholic Church, denominational diversity began. Due to the immigration of workers for the coal and steel industry during industrialization in the course of the 19th century, the denominational relationship shifted. The Catholic communities almost without exception belong to the Diocese of Trier , only a few communities in the east of Saarbrücken belong to the Diocese of Speyer .
The evangelical population of the district and the city belonged (with the exception of the communities Ensheim and Schnappach , which belong to the Palatinate Church ) since the Saarbrücken Union of the former Lutheran regional church of the county with the two Reformed communities in Saarbrücken and Ludweiler in 1817 to the Evangelical Church in Prussia ( from 1922 under the name Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union; APU, EKapU), and there to the church province of the Rhine Province formed in 1826 with the provincial consistory in Koblenz (from 1934 in Düsseldorf ). In 1947 the ecclesiastical province became an independent regional church as the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (EKiR) and until 2003 a member church of the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU; the name of the reorganized APU from 1953). Almost all Protestant parishes in the regional association are assigned to the EKiR.
politics
The organs of the Saarbrücken city association were the directly elected city association day (corresponded to a district assembly ), the planning council and the city association committee as the "legislature" and the city association president as head of administration and chairman of the city association day (legally comparable to a district administrator ).
City Association Presidents
- 1974: Walter Henn , FDP / DPS , as the last district administrator of the Saarbrücken district, provisional city association president
- 1974–1975: Werner Klumpp , FDP / DPS
- 1975–1985, Klaus Maria Heinemann , Free Democratic Party, FDP / DPS
- 1985–1991: Franz-Ludwig Triem , SPD
- 1992–1998: Karl-Heinz Trautmann , SPD
- 1998–2007: Michael Burkert , SPD
- 2007–2008: Elfriede Nicodemus (acting)
Regional Association Director
On January 1st, 2008, Ulf Huppert ( FDP ) was temporarily appointed "Representative for the office of regional association director".
On June 7, 2009 the office of regional association director was up for election for the first time. None of the candidates could win an absolute majority that day. In the runoff election on June 21, 2009, Peter Gillo ( SPD ) prevailed with 60.22% against Rainer Grün (CDU) with 39.78%. Gillo was able to unite more votes than his competitor in all municipalities of the regional association except Püttlingen . The turnout in the runoff election was just 21.2%.
Cooperation Council
From the time of the next local election, essential municipal tasks should no longer be decided by the regional assembly elected by the citizens of the city association, but by a cooperation council made up of representatives of the municipalities belonging to the association. Its responsibilities extend to certain communal self-government matters enumerated enumeratively in § 211a KSVG new version. This is to take into account the idea of cooperation and the special need for coordination in the Saarbrücken city-surrounding area.
As in the past, these tasks include land use planning , which, as an original municipal task, is exceptionally assigned to the higher level to cope with the special urban-surrounding situation and is carried out by a planning council set up specifically for this purpose. New to the cooperation tasks are economic development , local public transport and the coordination of sports, recreation and leisure activities. In addition, the Cooperation Council has numerous rights to be heard on matters for which the Regional Assembly is responsible.
Legal evaluation
The establishment of the Cooperation Council is considered unconstitutional because of the requirement, derived from Article 28.1 sentence 2 of the Basic Law, for a representative body to have emerged from direct popular elections, which in principle has to deal with all self-administration matters. Since the members of the cooperation council are sent by the municipalities, there is no homogeneous direct democratic legitimation. The Cooperation Council considers the opposite view to be permissible, since it has only been entrusted with a section of the municipal self-government matters and the important budget right remains with the regional assembly. A final clarification will probably only be brought about by the constitutional court of the Saarland . It is currently unclear whether the previously announced proceedings will actually be initiated.
Regional association as a local authority
In addition, the regional association largely corresponds to a conventional district . However, it is disputed whether it can also be a community association within the meaning of Article 28, Paragraph 2, Sentence 2 of the Basic Law. Against this it is argued that the regional association has received too strong federal corporate elements through the cooperation council. Then it would no longer qualify as a classic regional authority and there would be a violation of the constitutionally anchored objective legal institution guarantee .
Regional assembly
The regional assembly is the municipal representative body in the Saarbrücken regional association. The citizens decide on their composition every five years.
The election on May 26, 2019 led to the result shown on the right and the following distribution of seats:
| Parties and constituencies |
% 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
% 2009 |
Seats 2009 |
% 2004 |
Seats 2004 |
% 1999 |
Seats 1999 |
% 1994 |
% 1989 |
% 1984 |
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| SPD | 29.7 | 14th | 31.9 | 15th | 30.3 | 14th | 34.3 | 18th | 42.0 | 21st | 44.9 | 47.5 | 48.7 |
| CDU | 28.1 | 14th | 33.0 | 16 | 30.7 | 15th | 42.6 | 22nd | 44.9 | 22nd | 34.6 | 31.9 | 40.1 |
| GREEN | 15.2 | 7th | 8.3 | 4th | 8.2 | 4th | 7.2 | 3 | 5.8 | 2 | 9.3 | 6.3 | 5.1 |
| THE LEFT | 9.2 | 4th | 10.3 | 5 | 16.3 | 7th | 3.2 | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | - | - | - |
| AfD | 8.4 | 4th | 5.6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| FDP | 4.7 | 2 | 3.4 | 1 | 8.8 | 4th | 5.2 | 2 | 3.6 | 0 | 4.2 | 6.9 | 4.9 |
| PIRATES | 1.9 | 0 | 2.9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ÖDP | 1.2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Saarland for everyone | 0.9 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| NPD | 0.6 | 0 | 2.1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | - | - | 0.3 | 1.0 | - |
| FW / BB | - | - | 1.7 | 0 | 3.6 | 1 | 3.2 | 0 | - | - | 1.9 | - | - |
| REP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.2 | 0 | 3.8 | 4.9 | - |
| Others | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| total | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| voter turnout | 58.0% | 46.0% | 50.3% | 50.0% | 52.1% | 69.3% | 74.8% | 74.8% | |||||
coat of arms
The fourth coat of arms of the Saarbrücken Regional Association shows the silver lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken-Commercy in the first and fourth fields and the golden lion of the Counts and Princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken in the second and third fields .
Economy and Infrastructure
In 2016, the region's gross domestic product amounted to € 13.825 billion, making it 25th in the list of German cities and regional associations by economic output . The share in the economic output of the Saarland was 40.3%. In the same year, GDP per capita was € 42,088 (Saarland: € 34,465, Germany € 38,180). In 2016, around 209,100 people were employed in the Saarbrücken regional association. The unemployment rate in December 2018 was 7.8% and thus above the Saarland average of 5.7%.
traffic
Road traffic
Start in the area of the Saarbrücken regional association
- the federal motorway 6 ( coming from Paris and Metz ( France )) in the direction of Mannheim and
- the A1 in the direction of Trier .
Further leads
- the A 623 from Saarbrücken to the north and connects the northern areas of the regional association with the
- A 8 Luxembourg - Pirmasens .
Numerous federal and state roads also open up the area of the regional association. The most important are
- the B 41 towards Bad Kreuznach and
- continue on the B 51 via Saarlouis in a northerly direction.
Also worth mentioning is the A 620 ("tributary of the Saar with thirteen letters": the city motorway ), which connects the A 6 in the south-east with the A 8 in the south-west through the urban land along the river Saar . It is repeatedly flooded by floods in the Saar, which leads to considerable traffic obstructions in the entire city area.
railroad
The Hauptbahnhof Saarbruecken represents the railway technical center of the regional association, as well as the country. Saarbrücken has long been home to a railway management , of Bitburg in the north to Kirn in the northeast and east over Kaiserslautern reached out.
The following course book routes ( KBS ) run by Deutsche Bahn AG in the regional association area :
- KBS 670: Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern - Mannheim (lines RE 1, RB 68, RB 70, RB 71)
- KBS 680: Saarbrücken - Idar-Oberstein - Mainz (lines RE 3, RB 73)
- KBS 681: Saarbrücken - Lebach-Jabach (line RB 72)
- KBS 682: Saarbrücken - Forbach - Metz - Paris (international KBS F6) (line RE 18, operated by the SNCF )
- KBS 684: Saarbrücken - Sarreguemines - Strasbourg (train traffic by the SNCF, light rail traffic on the rail route by the Saarbahn )
- KBS 685: Saarbrücken - Trier (lines RE 1, RB 70, RB 71)
Other public transport
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The area of the regional association Saarbrücken is part of the Saarland transport association SaarVV .
Here in the state capital and in the neighboring communities of Kleinblittersdorf, Riegelsberg and Heusweiler (as well as Saargemünd , Mandelbachtal , Forbach , St. Ingbert and Lebach outside the regional association), Saarbahn trains and buses run on well over 50 lines as well as the Saar-Pfalz-Bus transport company which also carries out the bus traffic to the neighboring districts.
In the city of Völklingen, the lines are operated by the Völklingen municipal utilities. There are also connecting lines to Luxembourg City and via Forbach to Saint-Avold ( France ).
Airport
The Saarbrücken airport in the district of Saarbrücken Ensheim is an international German commercial airport with international traffic and operates both scheduled flights and charter flights.
shipping
The importance of the Saar as a transport route
Communities
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Protected areas
There are 15 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).
License Plate
On March 1, 1974, the Saarbrücken city association was assigned the distinctive sign SB, which had been valid since January 1, 1957 for the independent city of Saarbrücken and the Saarbrücken district , and was adopted by the now Saarbrücken regional association on January 1, 2008. It was issued continuously.
The distinctive sign VK stood and still stands for the medium- sized town Völklingen in the Saarbrücken district, then in the Saarbrücken city association or currently in the Saarbrücken regional association. It has only been issued for these continuously since January 1, 1968.
Web links
- Regional association website
- Literature on the Saarbrücken Regional Association in the Saarland Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 810 f .
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1975
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
- ↑ Official final result of the runoff election for regional association director ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Further development of the administrative structures in the greater Saarbrücken area. Expert opinion prepared by Professor Dr. Axel Priebs, Hanover / Kiel and Professor Dr. Kyrill-A. Schwarz, Dinkelsbühl, April 2007
- ↑ Regionalverband Saarbrücken municipal election 2019, announcement of the result of the election for the regional assembly
- ^ District elections 1984 to 2009 in Saarland by district
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Current results - VGR dL. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ Federal state Saarland. Federal Employment Agency, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/stadtautobahn-in-saarbruecken-gesperr_aid-7015742
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
