Harz (District of Göttingen)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '  N , 10 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Goettingen
Area :	267.35 km 2
Residents:	0 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	0 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GÖ , DUD, HMÜ, OHA
Community key :	03 1 59 501
Territory administration address :	Lower Saxony Forestry Office Clausthal L'Aigler Platz 1 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Location of the non-parish Harz region (Göttingen district) in the Göttingen district

Harz (district of Göttingen) is a municipality-free area in the district of Göttingen . Until a new district of Göttingen was formed from the old districts of Göttingen and Osterode am Harz on November 1, 2016, the area was called "Harz (district of Osterode am Harz)".

geography

With an area of ​​267.35 km², the administrative district is the second largest municipality-free area in Germany and is completely uninhabited.

Nevertheless, for administrative reasons it has an official municipality key . Most of the area is in the Göttingen district and continues in the northeast with the non-parish Harz region (Goslar district) .

administration

The administration of the community-free areas in the districts of Göttingen and Goslar , which consist of around 98 percent forest in total, is the responsibility of the Lower Saxony Forestry Office in Clausthal, which also issues the relevant certificate ( birth certificate , death certificate ) in the case of civil status cases and in the sense of a regulatory office for security and order responsible is. This is a specialty going back to the Harz mining history.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Landesforsten.de - community-free area Harz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 1, 2016 ; Retrieved September 18, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.