List of German-Portuguese town and municipality partnerships

This is a list of town and municipality partnerships between Germany and Portugal .

25 Portuguese and German municipalities are on friendly terms. The city of Leimen (Baden) has partnerships with two Portuguese towns, with Mafra and Castanheira de Pera , while the town of Ansião is friends with two German towns, with Erbach (Odenwald) and Königsee . In addition, Magdeburg maintained a partnership with Setúbal , which was dissolved in 1996, following a council decision by the city of Magdeburg to end a large number of town twinnings.

The first German-Portuguese town twinning was concluded after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. The traditional university cities of Halle ( GDR ) and Coimbra entered into their first partnership in 1976. The most recent connection has existed since May 2019 with the partnership between Bad Liebenzell and Lourinhã .

List of city partnerships and friendships

German community	state	District / municipality in Portugal	District	since
Altötting	Bavaria	Fatima	Santarém	1996
Bad Kötzting	Bavaria	Sesimbra	Setubal	1989
Bad Liebenzell	Baden-Württemberg	Lourinhã	Lisbon	2019
Boards	Baden-Württemberg	Condeixa-a-Nova	Coimbra	1985
Cuxhaven	Lower Saxony	Ílhavo	Aveiro	2002
Erbach (Odenwald)	Hesse	Ansião	Leiria	1992
Eschborn	Hesse	Póvoa de Varzim	postage	2010
Groß-Umstadt	Hesse	Santo Tirso	postage	1988
Halle (Saale)	Saxony-Anhalt	Coimbra	Coimbra	1976
Hepstedt	Lower Saxony	Samuel	Coimbra	1989
Jena	Thuringia	postage	postage	1984
Kaiserslautern	Rhineland-Palatinate	Guimarães	Braga	2000
Koenigsee	Thuringia	Ansião	Leiria	2000
Kürnach	Bavaria	Aljezur	Faro	1987
Leichlingen (Rhineland)	North Rhine-Westphalia	Funchal	Madeira Autonomous Region	1996
Gluing (bathing)	Baden-Württemberg	Mafra	Lisbon	1990
Gluing (bathing)	Baden-Württemberg	Castanheira de Pera	Leiria	1993
Lohmar	North Rhine-Westphalia	Vila Verde	Braga	1986
Neuss	North Rhine-Westphalia	Grândola	Setubal	1996
Osnabrück	Lower Saxony	Vila Real	Vila Real	2005
Rheine	North Rhine-Westphalia	Leiria	Leiria	1996
Siegburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	Guarda	Guarda	1985
Speyer	Rhineland-Palatinate	Évora	Évora	2003
Wine town	Baden-Württemberg	Abrantes	Santarém	1985
Wiesloch	Baden-Württemberg	Amarante	postage	2003

Initiations

A number of discussions to establish further partnerships and friendships between German and Portuguese municipalities have become known, but did not come to a conclusion or are still pending (as of March 2016). This includes:

German community	state	District / municipality in Portugal	District	Known since
Bernburg (Saale)	Saxony-Anhalt	Leiria	Leiria	2003
Diedorf	Bavaria	Évora	Évora	2000
Dienheim	Rhineland-Palatinate	Soure	Coimbra	1994
Geesthacht	Schleswig-Holstein	Baixa da Banheira	Setubal	1994
Grevesmühlen	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Loures	Lisbon	2014
Hunger	Hesse	Vila Nova de Poiares	Coimbra	2000
Cologne	North Rhine-Westphalia	Évora	Évora	1993
Oberkirch (Baden)	Baden-Württemberg	Esmoriz	Aveiro	1995
Ochtrup	North Rhine-Westphalia	Seia	Guarda	1993
Ravensburg	Baden-Württemberg	Góis	Coimbra	2000

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• German list of German-Portuguese town twinning at the Council of European Municipalities ( CEMR ), accessed on March 20, 2016
• Portuguese list of German-Portuguese town twinning at the Association of Portuguese Administrative Districts (ANMP), accessed on March 20, 2016

See also

• Parish partnership
• German-Portuguese relations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Bavarian community Altötting and the Portuguese community Fátima belong to the union of six pilgrimage sites, the Shrines of Europe, founded in 1996 .
2. ↑ Bad Kötzting in Bavaria and Sesimbra in Portugal are founding members of the European Douzelage Association that was established in 1989 .
3. ↑ The Lower Saxony municipality of Hepstedt has been associated with the Portuguese municipality of Samuel since the "Association of Rural Municipalities in Europe" ( European Charter - Villages of Europe ) was founded in 1989.
4. ↑ The city of Neuss and the city of Grândola signed a cooperation agreement in 1996.
5. ↑ In 1989 the friendship between Osnabrück and Vila Real began, which in 2005 became a city partnership.
6. ↑ Speyer is part of the Network of European Medium-Sized Cities (MECINE) a. a. connected with the Portuguese city of Évora.