Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region
| logo | map |
|---|---|
| Basic data | |
| State : | Baden-Württemberg |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe |
| Administrative headquarters : | Mannheim |
| Area : | 2,441.82 km² |
| Residents : | 1,134,551 (September 30, 2005) |
| Population density : | 465 inhabitants / km² |
| Regional breakdown: | 2 city districts and 2 rural districts |
| Regional association | |
| Last chairman of the association (until 2005): | Horst Sieber |
| Last association director (until 2005): | Christian Specht |
| map | |
|
|
The Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region (until May 20, 2003 the Lower Neckar Regional Association ) was one of the twelve planning regions in Baden-Württemberg until December 31, 2005 . It included the urban districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim as well as the Rhine-Neckar district and the Neckar-Odenwald district . Since January 1, 2006, this area has been part of the transnational Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region .
Regional planning
As the responsible body for regional planning in the Lower Neckar and Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald regions, the Lower Neckar Regional Association was established as a public corporation , one of 12 regional associations and regions in Baden-Württemberg . The seat of the regional association and the office were in Mannheim .
The tasks of the regional association included drawing up the regional and landscape framework plan and participating in the state development plan and regional planning procedures. Furthermore, regional policy initiatives should be taken to promote and develop the region. And finally, the cross-border regional planning with the neighboring regions in southern Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate should be worked on. In 2002 the Lower Neckar Regional Association was renamed the Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald Regional Association .
Population development
The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).
|
|
Spatial planning
In the previous Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region there were the main centers in Heidelberg and (as a dual center) Mannheim / Ludwigshafen am Rhein as well as the following medium-sized centers :
- Beeches (Odenwald)
- Eberbach
- Heidelberg
- Mannheim
- Mosbach
- Schwetzingen
- Sinsheim
- Weinheim
- Walldorf / Wiesloch
The border between the central areas Eberbach and Mosbach in the area of the communities Binau , Neckargerach , Waldbrunn and Zwingenberg was left open.
organization
The Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region had two organs:
- The association assembly with 80 members sent by the city and rural districts.
- The association chairman , who was elected by the association assembly. Since 2000 Horst Sieber (former mayor of the city of Sinsheim) was chairman.
The law provided for an association director for administrative and planning tasks . As early as 1969 was the treaty states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate the Regional Planning Association Rhein-Neckar founded. In addition to the Baden-Württemberg urban districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim and the Rhein-Neckar district, he also owned the Hessian district of Bergstrasse and in Rhineland-Palatinate the independent cities of Frankenthal (Palatinate) , Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Speyer and Worms , the district Bad Dürkheim and the Rhine-Palatinate District (formerly the Ludwigshafen district). With the exception of the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg (which was only represented as an advisory member), the area of the Lower Neckar and Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald regional association also belonged to this transnational association. According to a corresponding agreement, the association director of the Rhine-Neckar regional planning association was also the association director of the Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald regional association. Christian Specht ( CDU ) held this office until 2005 .
In addition to these two associations, there was another institution in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1977, namely the Planning Community Rheinpfalz as a corporation under public law. Its area included the Rhineland-Palatinate area of the Rhine-Neckar regional planning association described above and also the independent city of Landau (Palatinate) , the district of Germersheim and the district of Südliche Weinstrasse .
The office in Mannheim, where the association director was based, handled the joint administration of all three associations.
Dissolution of the associations
On April 28, 2005 the area of the regional planning association Rhine-Neckar was raised to the European metropolitan region Rhine-Neckar-Dreieck (also Rhine-Neckar). The state treaty of the three federal states involved dated July 26, 2005 decided to set up a cross-border association for the Rhine-Neckar region , which should not only cover the area of the Rhine-Neckar regional planning association, but the entire area of the three associations described above. This state treaty came into force on January 1, 2006. The three previous associations were dissolved.
The tasks of the previous regional association Rhein-Neckar-Odenwald were thus transferred to the transnational association for the Rhine-Neckar region. This makes it the second cross-border regional association in Baden-Württemberg after the Donau-Iller regional association established in 1973 . The previous upper and middle centers in the former Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region will also be continued as such in the transnational Rhine-Neckar region.