Joint municipality of Apensen
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Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ' N , 9 ° 37' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Stade | |
| Area : | 74.02 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9503 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 128 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | HOURS | |
| Association key : | 03 3 59 5401 | |
| Association structure: | 3 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Buxtehuder Strasse 27 21641 Apensen |
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Samtgemeinde- mayor : |
Petra Beckmann-Frelock (UWA) | |
| Location of the joint municipality of Apensen in the Stade district | ||
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The joint municipality Apensen is a joint municipality in the district of Stade in the north of Lower Saxony . Three municipalities have come together in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative seat of the joint municipality is in Apensen .
structure
The combined community consists of the three member communities Apensen , Beckdorf and Sauensiek .
history
At the end of 1997, the joint municipality of Apensen was the first municipality in the Stade district to apply the new municipal constitution and elected a full-time joint municipality mayor.
politics
Joint council
The council of the joint municipality Apensen consists of 22 councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 8,001 and 9,000. The 22 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2011 and ends on October 31, 2016.
The full-time Mayor of the Joint Community, Petra Beckmann-Frelock (UWA), is also entitled to vote in the Council of the Joint Community.
In the election to the joint municipal council on September 11, 2016 , the following results were achieved (+/−: compared to 2011):
| Party / list | Share of votes | +/-% p | Seats | +/- |
| SPD | 23.2% | - 8.9 | 5 | - 3 |
| CDU | 39.7% | + 2.8 | 8th | ± 0 |
| Green | 11.4% | - 7.4 | 2 | - 2nd |
| AfD | 8.3% | + 8.3 | 2 | + 2 * |
| FWG | 9.6% | + 0.8 | 2 | ± 0 |
| UWA | 7.8% | + 7.8 | 1 | + 1 |
* Only one seat is occupied.
Joint mayor of the municipality
The full-time mayor of Apensen is Petra Beckmann-Frelock (UWA). In the last election in 2019, she was elected with 52.76% of the vote.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In red, a silver armored arm pointing from left to right, holding an upright silver sword with a golden hilt."
Partner communities
Since 1973, the municipality of Apensen has established a partnership with the French municipality of Ploërmel / Bretagne . The relationship between the two municipalities was formalized by a contract signed in 1980. In 1990 the places Dittmannsdorf and Witzschdorf in the municipality of Gornau in Saxony were included for the first time. This partnership has also been contractually established since 2003. Also Kolbuszowa in Poland is on friendly terms with Apensen.
Economy and Infrastructure
education
In Apensen there is a primary school as well as a new school center ( Hauptschule and Realschule ) which was inaugurated in 2001 and which is now used as a secondary school. The Apensen elementary school is attended by the children from Apensen and Beckdorf. And in Wiegersen there is the elementary school for the southern part of the integrated community. Schoolchildren attending grammar school either go to Buxtehude to the grammar school Buxtehude Süd or to Harsefeld . In addition, there has been a free Waldorf school there since 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on November 29, 2014
- ↑ Kreiszeitung - Wochenblatt: Election result of the Council of the Samtgemeinde Apensen 2016 , accessed on February 15, 2019
- ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 27, 2014
