Local authority association Lower Saxony / Bremen
In the municipal association of Lower Saxony / Bremen eV , 28 municipalities in the Bremen region have come together.
History, tasks
On June 14, 1991, Bremen and its neighboring communities founded the Lower Saxony / Bremen Association in the form of an association in order to strengthen the cooperation between the then 24 members. Each member has one vote in the association. In several working groups founded at that time (which no longer exist in this form today) for housing construction / settlement planning, culture, environment and health / social affairs, problems are to be reduced in an "early warning system" and common improvements. According to the statutes, the area of the association is to be structurally strengthened economically. He is u. a. Member of the working group regional associations in metropolitan areas . The Green Ring Region Bremen was developed in the municipal association and introduced in 2003. The municipal association has been involved in regional development and planning in the INTRA project (inter-municipal spatial structure concept for the Bremen region) since 2005. For the region, which is characterized by numerous administrative borders, the municipal association provides the important parameters of the region with over 100 indicators with demographic monitoring and regional monitoring.
In 2016 the association had 28 members. Currently (2016) 1.05 million people live in the network, that is 40 percent of the population in the Northwest Metropolitan Region .
Andreas Bovenschulte , Mayor of Weyhe, has been chairman of the association since 2014 . Carsten Sieling , Mayor and President of the Senate of Bremen, is the deputy chairman . The office is based in Delmenhorst .
Members
The following members belong to the Lower Saxony / Bremen municipal association. The information on the number of inhabitants is from 2015:
- City of Achim : 31,156 inhabitants
- City of Bassum : 15,768 inhabitants
- Berne municipality : 6,896 inhabitants
- Hanseatic City of Bremen : 557,464 inhabitants
- Combined municipality of Bruchhausen-Vilsen : 16,971 inhabitants
- District- free city of Delmenhorst : 76,323 inhabitants
- Dötlingen municipality : 6,212 inhabitants
- Municipality Ganderkesee : 30,943 inhabitants
- Municipality Grasberg : 7,694 inhabitants
- Hambergen municipality : 11,759 inhabitants
- Harpstedt municipality : 10,899 inhabitants
- Lemwerder municipality : 6,940 inhabitants
- Municipality Lilienthal : 18,819 inhabitants
- District of Oldenburg : 128,608 inhabitants
- Osterholz district : 113,579 inhabitants
- City of Osterholz-Scharmbeck : 30,302 inhabitants
- Flecken Ottersberg : 12,443 inhabitants
- Oyten municipality : 15,604 inhabitants
- Municipality Ritterhude : 14,680 inhabitants
- Stuhr municipality : 33,083 inhabitants
- Municipality Schwanewede : 21,040 inhabitants
- City of Syke : 24,018 inhabitants
- Thedinghausen municipality : 14,906 inhabitants
- City of Twistringen : 12,219 inhabitants
- City of Verden : 26,997 inhabitants
- Weyhe municipality : 30,388 inhabitants
- City of Wildeshausen : 19,390 inhabitants
- Worpswede municipality : 9,285 inhabitants
literature
- Weser-Kurier (ed.): 25 years of municipal association - many strengths - one region . Special sheet of October 28, 2016.