List of municipalities in the Vechta district

The list of municipalities in the district of Vechta gives an overview of the ten smallest administrative units in the district . Four of the municipalities are cities . Lohne and Vechta , the seat of the district administration, are medium- sized towns , Damme and Dinklage are small towns .

Until it was renamed the Vechta district in 1939, the district was still called Amt Vechta . In the course of the Lower Saxony regional reform on March 1, 1974, the municipality of Lutten was incorporated into the municipality of Goldenstedt and the municipality of Langförden was incorporated into the city of Vechta. At the same time, the communities of Vörden , Hörsten and Hinnenkamp , which had previously been part of the Osnabrück district, became part of the Vechta district and became part of the Neuenkirchen-Vörden community . All communities in the district are unitary communities .

description

The district has a total area of ​​812.63 km ² . The city of Damme has the largest area within the district with 104.35 km ² . The municipality of Neuenkirchen-Vörden and the city of Lohne have an area larger than 90 km ² . Three municipalities are larger than 80 km ² and two are larger than 70 km ² . The other two communities Holdorf and Steinfeld have an area of ​​more than 50 km ² and are therefore the smallest communities in the district in terms of area.

The cities of Vechta with 32,863 inhabitants and Lohne with 26,935 inhabitants have the largest share of the population of the district of 142,814 inhabitants. The other two cities of Damme and Dinklage have 17,241 and 13,095 inhabitants. Three municipalities have over 9,000 inhabitants, one over 8,000 and two over 6,000 inhabitants. The smallest municipality in terms of population is Bakum with 6475 inhabitants.

The entire district of Vechta has a population density of 176 inhabitants per km ² . The largest population density within the district are the cities of Vechta with 374 inhabitants per km ² and Lohne with 297, followed by Dinklage with 180, Steinfeld with 171 and Damme with 165. Three other municipalities have a population density of over 100, the remaining two of over 70. The municipality with the smallest population, Bakum , also has the lowest population density with 82.

Legend

• Municipality : Name of the municipality or city
• Subsites : Enumerated are the formerly independent municipalities of the administrative unit and other parts of municipalities
• Coat of arms : coat of arms of the municipality or city
• Map : Shows the location of the municipality or city in the district
• Area : Area of ​​the city or municipality, given in square kilometers
• Population : number of people living in the municipality or city (as of December 31, 2019)
• Population density : The population density is given, calculated on the area of ​​the administrative unit, given in population per km ² (as of December 31, 2019)
• Altitude : Altitude of the eponymous town or town in meters above sea ​​level
• Image : Image from the respective municipality or city

Communities

local community	Sub-locations	coat of arms	map	surface	Residents	EW density	height	image
District of Vechta				812.63	142.814	176
Bakum	Bakum tufts Carum Daren Elmelage Harme Hausstette Lohe Lüsche marches village whey road Schledehausen Vestrup Westerbakum			78.72	6,475	82	31
Damme (city)	Damme Mountain Fine Borringhausen Clemens-August-Dorf Dalinghausen Damme North Damme West Dümmerlohausen Glückauf Haverbeck Klünenberg Lange parts Osterdamme Osterfeine Reselage Rottinghausen Hinnenkamp Rüschendorf Südfelde			104.38	17,241	165	53
Dinklage (city)	Dinklage Bahlen Bünne Höne Langwege Schwege Wulfenau			72.66	13,095	180	27
Goldenstedt	Goldenstedt Lutten			88.6	9,840	111	27
Holdorf	Holdorf Amtern Diekhausen Fladder Fladderlohausen Gramke Grandorf Handorf Holdorf-Bahnhof Ihorst Langenberg Scheelenhorst Wahlde			54.92	7,332	134	42
Lohne (city)	Lohne Bokern Brägel Brettberg Brockdorf Hamberg Hopen Krimpenfort Kroge-Ehrendorf Lerchental wage Proven marches village Meyer field Moorkamp Mühlenkamp Nordlohne Rießel Schell Without Südlohne Voßberg Vulhop Wichel Zerhusen			98.0	26,935	275	44
Neuenkirchen-Vörden	Bieste Campemoor Grapperhausen Hinnenkamp Hörsten Nellinghof Neuenkirchen Vörden Wenstrup			90.85	8,868	98	48
Steinfeld	Steinfeld Baring Brokamp-Wieferich Düpe Harpendorf Holthausen Lehmden Mills Ondrup Schemde Steifeld-Mitte Steinfeld-Süd			59.83	10,240	171	47
Vechta (district town)	Vechta Bergstrup Calveslage Deindrup Füchtel Green Moor Hagen Holtrup Holzhausen Langförden Oythe Petersburg vineyards Spreda Stoppelmarkt straws Stukenborg Tannenhof Telbrake tons Moor Vardel Vechta-Nord Vechta-West Before Moore puppy			87.78	32,863	374	37
Visbek	Visbek Astrup Bonrechtern Endel Erlte Hagstedt Halter / Meyerhöfen Hogenbögen Norddöllen Rechterfeld Varnhorn / Siedenbögen Wöstendöllen			84.1	9,925	118	49

Individual evidence

1. ^ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the Vechta / Cloppenburg area of February 11, 1974
2. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
3. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).