Zwickau district
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ' N , 12 ° 32' E |
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| State : | Saxony |
| Administrative headquarters : | Zwickau |
| Area : | 949.78 km 2 |
| Residents: | 315,002 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 332 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | Z, GC, HOT, WDA |
| Circle key : | 14 5 24 |
| NUTS : | DED45 |
| Circle structure: | 33 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Robert-Müller-Str. 4-8, 08056 Zwickau |
| Website : | |
| District Administrator : | Christoph Scheurer ( CDU ) |
| Location of the district of Zwickau in Saxony | |
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The district of Zwickau is a district in the west of Saxony . It was created on August 1, 2008 through the merger of the districts of Chemnitzer Land , Zwickauer Land and the independent city of Zwickau . It is the smallest district in terms of area in the Free State and has the highest population density of all districts in the new federal states .
geography
The majority of the Zwickau district is part of the Erzgebirge foothills, only a smaller part in the southwest is part of the Vogtland . Neighboring districts are the Thuringian district of Greiz in the west, the also Thuringian district of Altenburger Land in the north, the district of central Saxony in the northeast, the independent city of Chemnitz in the east, the Erzgebirgskreis in the south and southeast and the Vogtlandkreis in the southwest .
history
As part of the Saxon administrative and functional reform of 2008, which came into force on August 1, 2008, the districts of Chemnitzer Land , Zwickauer Land and the independent city of Zwickau were merged into one great district. The largest city of Zwickau was designated as the seat of the district, with branches remaining in the previous (large) district towns - namely Crimmitschau , Glauchau , Hohenstein-Ernstthal , Limbach-Oberfrohna and Werdau .
The district is part of the Vogtland-Zwickau cultural area that was newly created as part of the administrative reform.
Population development
The following overview shows the population development in the district of Zwickau (December 31 of each year). All information is based on the territorial status of January 1, 2011.
| year | Residents |
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| 1990 | 410.092 |
| 1995 | 391,545 |
| 2000 | 379.405 |
| 2005 | 361.001 |
| 2008 | 348,834 |
| 2009 | 345.118 |
| 2010 | 341.932 |
| 2011 1 | 333.291 |
| 2012 | 330.294 |
| 2013 | 327.062 |
| 2014 | 325,137 |
| 2015 | 324,534 |
| 2017 | 319,988 |
1 census result (area as of December 31, 2011)
economy
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Zwickau was ranked 287 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix”.
economic sectors
The predominant areas in the Zwickau district are the automotive industry and the automotive supplier industry, as well as logistics, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. There are also a large number of small to medium-sized craft businesses.
labour market
In the area of the district of Zwickau, an average of more than 160,000 employed persons were registered in 2009, which means that the district has the highest number of employed of all districts in the Free State of Saxony. In February 2012, 16,413 people were unemployed. This corresponds to an unemployment rate of 9.4% (February 2011: 11.1%). This means that the district of Zwickau has the lowest unemployment of all of Saxony's rural and urban districts.
Youth unemployment
In April 2012, 1,324 under 25-year-olds, 50 fewer young people than in March 2012, were registered as unemployed.
Infrastructure
Road traffic
The main traffic arteries in the district are the federal highways 4 and 72 as well as the federal highways 93 , 173 , 175 and 180 .
railroad
The Dresden – Werdau railway line , an important section of the Saxony-Franconian Magistrale, runs through the district with stops and the like. a. in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Glauchau, Zwickau and Werdau. Furthermore, the S-Bahn has been connecting Central Germany with Leipzig and Leipzig / Halle Airport since December 2013 .
Healthcare
There are seven hospitals, one special care hospital, five standard care hospitals and one specialist hospital in the Zwickau district .
- Heinrich-Braun-Klinikum Zwickau , hospital for special care
- Rudolf Virchow Clinic Glauchau
- District Hospital Kirchberg GmbH
- DRK Hospital Lichtenstein gGmbH
- Pleißental-Klinik GmbH Werdau
- Paracelsus Clinic Zwickau
- Asklepios Fachklinikum Wiesen GmbH Wildenfels - Specialist hospital for psychiatry and psychotherapy
In addition to the diploma course in Sign Language Interpreting, the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau also offers two Bachelor courses in “Health Management” and “Nursing Management” as well as the Master’s course in Health Sciences. The Eubios Academy in Werdau is a state-recognized training facility for health professions.
The British pharmaceutical company Aesica has a production and research center at its Zwickau location.
education
The largest educational institution in the district is the West Saxon University of Zwickau . At the University of Applied Sciences, which emerged from the Zwickau Mountain School , which was founded in 1862, around 5200 students are currently enrolled. In addition, there is a study academy ( BA-Glauchau ) as well as 9 vocational school centers and several high schools in the district. The Zwickau district has a total of 124 general education schools and 201 day-care centers.
Occur
The logo of the new district represents a young, blossoming bud as a symbol for the merging of the two former districts. The fresh blue stands as the background color for a strong economy.
politics
District Administrator
The district administrator was elected in the course of the Saxon local elections on June 8, 2008 and thus before the actual district was founded. District administrator was Christoph Scheurer (CDU), who received 52.7% of the vote in the first ballot. Scheurer was already active as a district administrator in the former Glauchau district and in its successor district of Chemnitzer Land . In the district elections on June 7, 2015, he was confirmed in his office with 60.8% in the first ballot.
District council
The district council of the Zwickau district was also elected on May 25, 2014. The 98 seats in the district council are distributed among the individual parties as follows:
| Parties and constituencies | Percent 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
Percent 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
Percent 2008 |
Seats 2008 |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 29.7 | 30th | 39.9 | 40 | 37.1 | 38 |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 19.7 | 19th | 5.0 | 5 | nk | nk |
| FW | Free voters Kreisverband Zwickau eV | 15.0 | 15th | 11.6 | 11 | 9.0 | 9 |
| THE LEFT. | THE LEFT. | 14.4 | 14th | 19.6 | 20th | 20.9 | 21st |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 7.2 | 7th | 10.5 | 10 | 10.2 | 10 |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 6.2 | 6th | 4.6 | 4th | 3.3 | 3 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 6.1 | 6th | 4.9 | 4th | 10.6 | 11 |
| NPD | National Democratic Party of Germany | 1.1 | 1 | 4.0 | 4 (*) | 3.3 | 3 |
| AdP | Departure of German patriots | 0.6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| UL | Independent list | - | - | - | - | 3.8 | 3 |
| total | 100 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 98 | |
| Turnout in percent | 59.8 | 46.3 | 40.7 | ||||
Parliamentary groups in the district assembly 2019
The following parliamentary groups have formed in the district council: CDU (30 members), AfD (19 members), Free Voters (15 members), DIE LINKE. (14 members), SPD / GRÜNE (13 members) and FDP (6 members). The representative of the NPD is a non-attached member of the Zwickau district council.
Parliamentary groups in the district assembly 2014–2019
The following parliamentary groups were formed in the district council in 2014: CDU (44 members, including FDP), DIE LINKE. (20 members), SPD / GRÜNE (14 members), FW (11 members), AfD (5 members). (*) The 4 members of the NPD are non-attached, one member has since left the NPD. Since then the NPD group consists of 3 members.
coat of arms
Blazon : “Split, in front in blue a red armored lion divided into gold and silver; at the back divided three times by red and silver diagonally right. "
On September 30, 2009 the district council decided on the new district coat of arms. The coat of arms is supposed to represent a combination of the coats of arms of the former county Schönburg and the Pleißener rule , both of which were in the area of the current district.
flag
The flag is red and white (1: 1) striped with the county coat of arms in the middle.
cities and communes
(Population figures as of December 31, 2019)
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- Administrative community Crimmitschau-Dennheritz based in Crimmitschau, members: Crimmitschau and Dennheritz
- Administrative community Kirchberg based in Kirchberg, members: Crinitzberg, Hartmannsdorf b. Kirchberg, Hirschfeld and Kirchberg
- Administrative community Limbach-Oberfrohna with the member communities Limbach-Oberfrohna and Niederfrohna
- Administrative community Meerane-Schönberg with the member communities Meerane and Schönberg
- Administrative community around the Auersberg with the member communities Bernsdorf, Lichtenstein (VG headquarters) and St. Egidien
- Administrative community Waldenburg with the member communities Oberwiera, Remse and Waldenburg
Protected areas
There are five designated nature reserves in the district (as of March 2017).
partnership
- The partnership concluded on October 3, 1990 between the district of Lörrach and the district of Glauchau was transferred to the district of Zwickau with the district reform in 2008 .
License Plate
On August 1, 2008, the district was assigned the distinctive sign Z, which had been valid since January 1, 1991 for the then district and the then independent city of Zwickau . Since November 9, 2012, due to the license plate liberalization, the distinguishing marks GC (Glauchau), HOT (Hohenstein-Ernstthal) and WDA (Werdau) have been available.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Re- encryption of the municipalities in the Free State of Saxony from August 1, 2008 (PDF; 30 kB)
- ^ Free State of Saxony - Cultural Areas in Saxony . Verwaltungsatlas.sachsen.de. Archived from the original on July 23, 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. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony on December 31, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2008 to 2010 according to independent cities and districts (PDF; 11 kB) statistik.sachsen.de. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- ^ Database census 2011, Zwickau, district, age + gender
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ Zwickau district - business location ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Employed persons in the Free State of Saxony 2000 to 2009 by independent cities and districts ( PDF )
- ↑ Statistics from the Federal Employment Agency: reporting month February 2012 - Zwickau
- ↑ http://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Navigation/Startseite/Startseite-Nav.html
- ↑ Zwickau district - hospitals in the Zwickau district ( memento of the original from July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Website of the district of Zwickau ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Dörfelt, Frank: District Office: Painters out, Scheurer in. New district administrator makes an inaugural visit to the new mayor. In: WochenSpiegel Werdau / Crimmitschau, No. 32 of August 6, 2008, p. 1.
- ^ Result of the 2008 district council election . Accessed December 8, 2008 .
- ↑ Preliminary result of the district council election 2014 after repetition in WK 12 and 13. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; Retrieved August 3, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Result of the district council election on May 26, 2019 (PDF file; 18.25 kB) at www.landkreis-zwickau.de ; Retrieved October 24, 2019. Note: Percentages of votes / valid votes
- ↑ parliamentary groups on www.landkreis-zwickau.de ; accessed on October 24, 2019
- ↑ Report on the planned district coat of arms in the district's official gazette (PDF). (PDF; 5.2 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 22, 2009 . 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.
- ^ Zwickau district - coat of arms and logo . landkreis-zwickau.de. Archived from the original on October 21, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ^ Partnership agreement between the districts of Glauchau and Lörrach. (No longer available online.) October 3, 1990, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 18, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
