Spatial planning region
Spatial planning regions serve the functional division of the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany for the purpose of spatial planning . There are 96 spatial planning regions, the delimitation being country-specific. Spatial planning region 13 (Bremerhaven) is an exception to the state-specific delimitation, which in addition to the city of Bremerhaven ( Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ) also includes the Lower Saxony districts of Cuxhaven and Wesermarsch .
The spatial planning regions are formed from the German NUTS 3 regions (districts, urban districts as well as Hamburg and Berlin). With the exception of the city states, spatial planning regions are large-scale, functionally delimited spatial units for federal spatial planning reporting. In principle, an economic center and its surrounding area are described, with particular reference to commuter networks. The delimitation of the spatial planning regions usually does not correspond to that of the metropolitan regions , which are mostly limited to the more densely populated areas. The Bochum / Hagen region, for example, as one of the four regions with a share of the Ruhr area, not only consists of the east-central and south-east part of the Ruhr area between Herne and Hagen, but also the Sauerland Märkisches Kreis .
The spatial planning regions generally correspond to the planning regions of the federal states. Exceptions: In Lower Saxony regional planning is carried out by the districts and independent cities, in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse by the administrative districts. Regional planning in Schleswig-Holstein is carried out for the planning regions by the state, whereby these are called planning areas there. Since 2014, the spatial planning regions referred to below as nos. 2, 4 and 5 have been combined into one planning area. In Saarland there are no regional planning.
Other examples of functional delimitations are German labor market regions or European Functional Urban Areas ( ESPON - European Spatial Planning Observation Network).
| Overview of the spatial planning regions in Germany by federal state: | ||
Bremen and Lower Saxony
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(On August 1, 2008, the South West Saxony and Chemnitz-Erzgebirge associations were dissolved and the South Saxony Association was newly formed.) |
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Web links
- Map of the spatial planning regions by district ( BBR , as of December 31, 2017; PDF, 347 kB) [Numbering different from the article, which is structured by country!]
- Federal Office of Statistics
- Monitor of settlement and open space development of the Leibniz Institute for Ecological Spatial Development ( notes )