Göttingen law

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In the Göttingen Law (officially: Law on the reorganization of the district and the city of Göttingen ) the incorporation of the previously independent city of Göttingen into the district of Göttingen and the division of competencies between the two were regulated. Furthermore, the communities Geismar , Grone , Nikolausberg and Weende were incorporated into the city of Göttingen. On November 1, 2011, the Göttingen Act expired and was replaced by the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Act (NKomVG).

Thereafter, the regulations for independent cities largely continue to apply to Göttingen . In the case of Lower Saxony financial equalization and the implementation of the Lower Saxony School Act , however, the city is regarded as a municipality belonging to the district. The district of Göttingen, on the other hand, also fulfills the tasks of Section 1 of the Lower Saxony law on the federal law for the economic security of hospitals and for regulating hospital care rates for the city of Göttingen. The division of tasks between the city and the district of Göttingen can be changed by ordinance by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior after hearing the two regional authorities .

The law came into force on July 4, 1964, parts of it only on January 1, 1965.

The city of Göttingen had pushed for an expansion of its urban area. It was no longer able to provide enough space for new apartments, commercial areas and traffic, as well as for the university and the Max Planck Society. The neighboring communities in the district near the city developed well. They grew together with Göttingen. There were several ways to solve the problem. One could have created an association like in the example of Hanover (Association Greater Hanover). The then rather small district of Göttingen could have been broken up and divided into the districts of Duderstadt , Münden and Northeim . Ultimately, the decision was made in favor of the solution found with the law, i.e. for the integration of the city (then 110,000 inhabitants) into the district (then 42,000 inhabitants without Göttingen).

The Göttingen Act was a model for similar regulations:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frido Wagener : New administration building, 2nd edition Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, p. 149 ff .

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