Agglomeration of Szczecin

Szczecin and the surrounding area

The agglomeration of Stettin ( Aglomeracja Szczecińska in Polish ) around the city of Stettin ( Szczecin ) represents one of the nine functional interlinked areas in the settlement system of the Republic of Poland . In the course of the European integration process, Stettin is becoming increasingly important as a regional center in the German-Polish border region. A total of 777,321 inhabitants (2012) live in the narrower conurbation area on an area of ​​5248.94 km².

The aim is to develop a European metropolitan region of Szczecin for cross-border cooperation. According to an established structure, this would include the neighboring districts of Mecklenburg Lake District , Vorpommern-Greifswald , Uckermark on the German side and the powiate Goleniów , Gryfino , Kamień , Police and Stargard and the port city of Swinoujscie on the Polish side, in addition to the core city of Stettin . In 2015, a good 1.46 million people lived in this area. It would have about as many inhabitants as the metropolitan area of Krakow ("Krakowski Obszar Metropolitalny"), but on a larger area.

At a conference in October 2013, the then Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Erwin Sellering , said that the Szczecin area, along with the Berlin area , should become the engine of development for the east of the state, similar to what the metropolis of Hamburg and the Rostock regiopolis achieved for the west. In the municipality of Löcknitz there is the "Kommunalgemeinschaft Euroregion Pomerania eV", a coordination point for the development of the metropolitan region of Stettin and its integration into the Baltic Sea region with the partner countries Germany, Poland, Sweden and Denmark. With the "Haus der Wirtschaft Stettin" there is an institution of the IHK Neubrandenburg for the promotion of economic relations in the German-Polish area.

See also

• ESPON

Web links

• Spatial planning model project: German-Polish development concept for the cross-border metropolitan region of Szczecin
• Project sketch for the German-Polish development concept of the cross-border metropolitan region of Szczecin ( Memento from July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (government portal MV)
• Development priorities of the metropolitan region of Szczecin (PDF; 1.7 MB)
• Model project of spatial planning: The city of Szczecin and its "bacon belt"
• Country analysis Poland No. 111: Polish migration to Germany from a local perspective (PDF; 870 kB)
• Szczecin - official website (Polish)

Footnotes

1. ^ State Chancellery of the State of Brandenburg , accessed on June 14, 2012
2. ^ Reuters news agency , accessed November 9, 2013
3. ^ Potsdamer Neue Nachrichten , accessed on June 14, 2012
4. ↑ Looking east - Sellering advertises Stettin ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, October 14, 2013
5. ↑ Euroregion Pomerania.
6. ^ House of Economy in Stettin of the IHK Neubrandenburg ( Memento from June 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )