Hanover region
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ' N , 9 ° 43' E |
| Basic data | |
| State : | Lower Saxony |
| Administrative headquarters : | Hanover |
| Area : | 2,290.86 km 2 |
| Residents: | 1,157,115 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 505 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | H |
| Region key : | 03 2 41 |
| NUTS : | DE929 |
| Regional breakdown: | 21 municipalities |
Regional administration address : |
Hildesheimer Strasse 20 30169 Hanover |
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| Region President : | Hauke Jagau ( SPD ) |
| Location of the Hanover region in Lower Saxony | |
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The Hanover region is a special kind of local authority association in Lower Saxony . The most populous cities in the Hanover region after Hanover itself are Garbsen and Langenhagen , the city with the largest area is Neustadt am Rübenberge (one of the largest municipalities in Germany ). The Hanover region is part of the Hanover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg metropolitan region .
geography
location
The region lies in the transition area between the Lüneburg Heath and Central Uplands . In the west lies the Steinhuder Meer, the largest inland lake in Lower Saxony, surrounded by extensive moors. In the southwest the slightly hilly Calenberger Land before the transition to the low mountain ranges. The low mountain range threshold is reached in the southwest through the Deister and Osterwald mountain ranges around the towns of Barsinghausen and Springe. The southeast part of the fertile arable land of the Hildesheimer Börde . In the center of the region is Lower Saxony's state capital Hanover with over 530,000 inhabitants. In terms of landscape geography , the northern part belongs to the Hanoverian Moorgeest , here the landscape merges into the southern heath with large forest areas (especially pines). The Hanover region is located in the southern center of Lower Saxony . The highest point in the region is the Bröhn (405 m above sea level) in the Deister.
Neighboring areas
| Nienburg / Weser | Heidekreis | Celle |
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Gifhorn , Peine |
| Hameln-Pyrmont | Hildesheim |
history
The Hanover region was formed on November 1, 2001 from the municipalities of the previous district of Hanover and the previously independent city of Hanover , at the same time the district of Hanover and the municipal association of Greater Hanover were dissolved. The Hanover region also took on the tasks of the Hanover district government at the time . The city of Hanover was incorporated into the Hanover region, but retained its legal status as an independent city, unless otherwise stipulated in the Hanover Region Act or on the basis of this Act. The law was replaced in 2011 by the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law .
religion
The Hanover region has been Protestant since the Reformation.
In 2018, 35.1% of the population were Protestant and 12.2% Catholic . The majority (52.7%) do not belong to either of the two major Christian denominations.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 2001 | 1,122,038 |
| 2005 | 1,128,543 |
| 2010 | 1,132,130 |
| 2015 | 1,144,481 |
| 2017 | 1,153,063 |
| 2018 | 1,157,624 |
Denomination statistics
In 2011, 48.0% of the population were Protestant , 13.4% Roman Catholic and 38.6% without a denomination , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information.
In 2018, 35.1% (412,680) of the population of the Hanover region were Protestant and 12.2% (143,963) were Catholic. The majority of 52.7% did not belong to either of the two Christian denominations.
politics
The regional assembly is the representation and main body of the Hanover region and consists of 85 members, including the regional president, who is elected for seven years. The remaining 84 members of the assembly are elected for five years. Walter Richter (SPD) is the chairman of the regional assembly. The regional assembly forms committees. The first regional president was Michael Arndt in 2001 . Hauke Jagau has been regional president since 2006 . The regional president has three honorary deputies for representative appointments, Petra Rudszuck ( SPD ), Michael Dette ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and Michaela Michalowitz ( CDU ). The general representative of the regional president in administration is the first regional council, since April 2018 Cora Hermenau (CDU). The 2016 local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Parties and constituencies | Percent 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
Percent 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
Percent 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
Percent 2001 |
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| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 32.3 | 26th | 36.4 | 31 | 39.7 | 33 | 42.4 | 37 |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 29.0 | 24 | 31.0 | 26th | 35.2 | 30th | 36.2 | 31 |
| Green | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 13.6 | 12 | 19.0 | 16 | 10.9 | 9 | 9.1 | 8th |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 5.4 | 5 | 3.1 | 3 | 7.3 | 6th | 6.3 | 5 |
| left | The left | 4.8 | 4th | 2.5 | 3 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| BF | CitizenForum | - | - | 1.1 | 1 | 1.1 | 1 | - | - |
| HAN | Hanoverian | 1.9 | 2 | 2.7 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Pirates | Pirate Party Germany | 1.6 | 1 | 3.0 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| REP | The Republicans | - | - | - | - | 1.5 | 1 | 1.4 | 1 |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 10.1 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| POLITICAL PARTY | Party for work, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots initiative | 0.9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| BSG | Alliance for Social Justice | - | - | 0.6 | 0 | 0.7 | 1 | - | - |
| Others | 1.5 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 3 | 3.1 | 1 | |||
| total | 100 | 84 | 100 | 84 | 100 | 84 | 100 | 84 | |
| Turnout in percent | 54.6 | 49.7 | 47.0 | 52.3 | |||||
Regional Committee
In addition to the regional assembly, the regional committee is the second organ of the Hanover region with its own responsibilities. Among other things, he prepares the resolutions of the regional assembly. Under the chairmanship of the regional president, other members of the assembly are members of the committee as councilors as well as advising the department heads.
Region Presidents
- Michael Arndt (SPD, 2001-2006)
- Hauke Jagau (SPD, since 2006)
administration
The administration is divided into the business area of the regional president (department R) and five departments. More than 2000 employees work in the administration. The regional president is paid according to B 9 (plus 27% allowance according to B 10), the first regional council according to B 8, the other department heads according to B 7.
- Regional President Hauke Jagau (SPD)
- Department I : Public Health, Safety, IT Coordination and EU Affairs (1st Regional Councilor Cora Hermenau )
- Department II : Social Infrastructure (Regional Councilor Andrea Hanke)
- Department III : Environment, Planning and Construction (Regional Councilor Christine Karasch)
- Department IV : Economy, Transport and Education (Regional Councilor Ulf-Birger Franz)
- Department V : Finance, Building Management and Hospitals (Regional Councilor Andrea Fischer )
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In the red shield at the top astriding golden lion turned to the right , at the bottom a silver shamrock with red leaf ribs turnedupsidedown." |
Partnerships
The Hanover region maintains partnerships with the following regions:
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Lower Galilee Region (Israel) -
Poznan County (Poland)
Economy and Infrastructure
In 2016, the region's gross domestic product was € 49.578 billion, making it 7th in the ranking of German cities by economic output . In the same year, GDP per capita was € 43,240 per capita (Lower Saxony: € 34,812, Germany € 38,180). In 2016, around 691,700 people were employed in the Hanover region. The unemployment rate was 6.2% in December 2018 and thus above the Lower Saxony average of 5.0%.
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Hanover region was ranked 82nd out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with “high future prospects”. In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 83rd out of 401.
In the Hanover region, various large companies have their headquarters or their headquarters in Germany such as Swiss Life Select (formerly AWD), Bahlsen , Continental , Deutsche Messe AG , Heinz von Heiden GmbH Massivhäuser , Komatsu Hanomag , Commercial Health Insurance - KKH , Kind Hörgeräte , Konica Minolta , Norddeutsche Landesbank , Ricoh , Rossmann , Sennheiser , Talanx , TUI , Johnson Controls (formerly Varta AG ) and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles . The hospital association Klinikum Region Hannover is sponsored by the region .
traffic
In Hanover , major traffic axes in the north-south direction intersect with those in the east-west direction. At the junction Hannover-Ost meet motorways A 2 ( European route E 30 ) and the A 7 ( E 45 ) one another. Next be in the catchment area of the highways A 37 and A 352 as well as the federal roads B 3 , B 6 , B 65 , B 217 , B 441 , B 443 and B 522 .
The Hauptbahnhof Hannover linked u. a. the Bremen / Hamburg – Kassel and Hamm – Berlin railway lines. The Mittelland Canal and the Hanover-Linden branch canal connect Hanover for inland navigation via other canals with the Ruhr area, Hamburg and Berlin. There are flight connections to the international hub Frankfurt am Main as well as to other national and international destinations in scheduled and tourist traffic via Hannover-Langenhagen Airport .
In transport, the Hanover region has the wide-body Hannover over a traditional Transport Association , the u. a. includes the Hanover S-Bahn and the Hanover Stadtbahn .
Educational institutions
The Hanover region is responsible for the public vocational schools , twelve of which are in the city of Hanover and three outside the city of Hanover in Burgdorf, Neustadt and Springe. In addition, the region is responsible for the public special schools .
Communities
(Residents on December 31, 2019)
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The unit communities Barsinghausen, Burgdorf, Garbsen, Isernhagen, Laatzen, Langenhagen, Lehrte, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Jump, Uetze, Wedemark Wunstorf and have the local legal position of independent communities .
Protected areas
In addition to landscape protection areas and natural monuments, there are 37 designated nature reserves in the region (as of February 2017).
See also:
- List of nature reserves in the Hanover region
- List of landscape protection areas in the Hanover region
- List of natural monuments in the Hanover region
- List of protected landscape components in the Hanover region
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district and the independent city of Hanover were assigned the distinctive sign H when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is still issued in the Hanover region to this day.
The earlier distinctive signs NRÜ (Altkreis Neustadt am Rübenberge), SPR (Altkreis Springe) and BU (Altkreis Burgdorf) have not yet been reintroduced.
literature
- Martin Höfelmann: Local self-government in Germany - Organization and structure of local government - With exemplary comparison of the city administrations of the state capitals of Hanover and Erfurt. Munich 2008, ISBN 3-640-19218-4 .
- Jens Wassermann: The Hanover region - regional cooperation against the background of an institutionalized local authority. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-5577-0 .
- Klaus Mlynek : Region Hannover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 519.
See also
Web links
- Region and City of Hanover (joint portal)
- Link catalog on the Hanover region at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Event platform for Hanover and the region
- Archive of the Hanover region
- Bike tour suggestions with GPS tracks
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ Catholic in the Hanover region , accessed on August 5, 2019
- ↑ Lower Saxony regional database
- ^ Religion , 2011 census
- ↑ Catholic in the Hanover Region , hannover.de , accessed on February 18, 2020
- ↑ Apprenticeship positions at the Hanover region , hannover.de
- ^ Salary increase for Lower Saxony's mayor - waz-online.de
- ↑ Partnerships of the Hannover Region hannover.de, accessed on April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Current results - VGR dL. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ Federal State of Lower Saxony. Federal Employment Agency, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 4, 2018 ; 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.
- ↑ PROGNOS future atlas. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
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