Starkenburg region

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The Starkenburg region is the name of a former voluntary association in southern Hesse around the science city of Darmstadt . The region had an area of ​​2600 km² and was therefore comparable in size to the Saarland .

The following areas were part of the region:

The Zweckverband bore the name of the Starkenburg near Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse , which gave its name to the province of Starkenburg in the Grand Duchy (since 1919 national state ) of Hesse and an administrative area of ​​the Protestant church ( largely congruent with the area of ​​the region) .

In its statutes , the Zweckverband invoked the principle of voluntary cooperation between the districts involved and the city ​​of Darmstadt to achieve the goals (sustainable development of the region).

The Starkenburg business development with its own management acted as a registered association for the same region.

In 2005, the use and the then orientation (sustainable development of the region) of the Zweckverband - presumably due to the change in the office of the district administrator of the Bergstrasse district (from Norbert Hofmann (SPD) to Matthias Wilkes (CDU)) - was criticized: The Zweckverband did not have its own Set impulses for his region. The members (five districts and the city of Darmstadt) had not succeeded in voluntarily handing over their own areas of responsibility to the association. The propagated "voluntary cooperation" therefore does not lead any further. However, this line of argument contradicts the successes listed below. In addition, a comprehensive network of active people / activities was created at the work level. The Bergstrasse district will not, however, refrain from expanding its orientation to the north and south , the other members of the Starkenburg region also did not want to neglect their orientation towards the greater Frankfurt am Main area , so that the region will act as a mediator of the converging Frankfurt metropolitan region. Rhein-Main-Neckar saw.

From 2005 the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar ran the business development firm Starkenburg. In 2005 it was decided to join the Frankfurt Rhein-Main GmbH location marketing company and thereby strengthen international marketing for the entire region. Internal marketing continued to be carried out by the Starkenburg business development agency. The Bergstrasse district, which had not previously participated in the operative business (for reasons of cost, among other things), decided to withdraw from the business development program at the end of 2005. According to the preamble to the statutes, he was still a member. At the end of 2005, the Groß-Gerau district stopped financing its operational business with the option of participating again if its own budget situation improved.

The Zweckverband supported several priority projects, including:

  • Preventive flood protection / EU project "Joy on the River",
  • New Rhine / Main – Rhine / Neckar line ,
  • Location Marketing Region Frankfurt Rhein-Main GmbH,
  • Destination management,
  • International Building Exhibition (IBA) Region Frankfurt RheinMain,
  • Tourism marketing for the 2006 World Cup,
  • Region-wide introduction of the volunteer card,
  • Biomass
  • Cultural summer in South Hesse

In October 2006, the Bergstrasse and Groß-Gerau districts decided to leave the association. In a press release from the Darmstadt-Dieburg district office on December 5, 2006, it was announced that the Starkenburg region should continue to exist in a reduced form. The realignment of the association provides for a three-way constellation from the city of Darmstadt, the Odenwaldkreis and the Darmstadt-Dieburg district. The new structure, which Alfred Jakoubek , Regional Association Darmstadt-Dieburg-Odenwald could call itself, sees location marketing as a central task. Other topics could be joint transport planning , school development plans or the veterinary system . The South Hesse cultural summer continues. The first chairman was the district administrator of the Odenwald district Horst Schnur. Today the chairmanship of the district administrators changes annually.

On November 20, 2007, the association meeting decided to dissolve the special purpose association on December 31, 2007. However, the cooperation in the above-mentioned areas should continue.

The term “Starkenburg” continues to serve in the name of the “ Energiegenossenschaft Starkenburg”, in which various comrades implement wind and solar energy projects.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Internet site of the Starkenburg energy cooperative , accessed on August 16, 2012

literature

  • Friederike Böge: Silicon Valley is no longer so secret . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . March 31, 2002, p. R4 .