Integrated municipality Dörpen

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Integrated municipality Dörpen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Emsland
Area : 209.02 km 2
Residents: 16,937 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 81 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : Tbsp
Association key : 03 4 54 5401
Association structure: 9 municipalities
Association administration address
: 		Main street 25
26892 Dörpen
Website : www.doerpen.de
Mayor of the municipality : Hermann Wocken
Dörpen in the Emsland district
Niederlande Landkreis Cloppenburg Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Landkreis Leer Landkreis Osnabrück Andervenne Bawinkel Beesten Bockhorst Börger Breddenberg Dersum Dörpen Dohren (Emsland) Emsbüren Esterwegen Freren Fresenburg Geeste Gersten Groß Berßen Handrup Haren (Ems) Haselünne Heede (Emsland) Herzlake Hilkenbrook Hüven Klein Berßen Kluse (Emsland) Lähden Lahn (Hümmling) Langen (Emsland) Lathen Lehe (Emsland) Lengerich (Emsland) Lingen (Ems) Lorup Lünne Lünne Meppen Messingen Neubörger Neulehe Niederlangen Oberlangen Papenburg Rastdorf Renkenberge Rhede (Ems) Salzbergen Schapen Sögel Spahnharrenstätte Spelle Stavern Surwold Sustrum Thuine Twist (Emsland) Vrees Walchum Werlte Werpeloh Wettrup Wippingenmap
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The integrated municipality Dörpen in the Lower Saxony district of Emsland consists of nine municipalities.

geography

Geographical location

The integrated municipality Dörpen is located in the north-west of the district Emsland on the Ems . In the north it borders on the municipality of Rhede and the city of Papenburg , in the east on the joint municipalities of Nordhümmling and Sögel , in the south on the joint municipality of Lathen and in the west on the Netherlands .

The municipalities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

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  1. Dersum (1443)
  2. Dörpen (5392)
  3. Heede (2523)
  4. Kluse (1700)
  5. Lehe (979)
  6. Neubörger (1546)
  7. New Marriage (798)
  8. Walchum (1588)
  9. Wippingen (968)

politics

The administrative seat of the municipality is in Dörpen .

Joint council

The Samtgemeinderat of the Samtgemeinde Dörpen consists of 32 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a joint municipality with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor of the joint municipality is also entitled to vote in the council of the joint municipality .

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Joint mayor of the municipality

  • Mayor of the municipality: Hermann Wocken

Representatives in the Land and Bundestag

The integrated municipality is part of the Papenburg state electoral district . In addition to the city of Papenburg, it also includes the communities Rhede (Ems) and the combined communities Dörpen, Lathen , Nordhümmling , Sögel and Werlte . Five direct candidates ran for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 . The directly elected MP is Bernd Busemann ( CDU ). The constituency had constituency number 82.

Dörpen belongs to the Bundestag constituency Unterems (constituency 25), which consists of the district of Leer and the northern part of the district of Emsland. The constituency was redesigned for the 1980 federal election and has remained unchanged since then. So far, only representatives of the CDU have prevailed as direct candidates in this constituency. The constituency is represented in the Bundestag by the directly elected CDU MP Gitta Connemann from Leer. No party candidate from the constituency entered the Bundestag via the parties' list.

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms of the Samtgemeinde Dörpen shows in a red shield a silver sloping left wavy bar, accompanied by a golden sheaf of nine ears of wheat and a golden sheet of paper.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on February 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Allocation of seats in the council of the Samtgemeinde Dörpen ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed February 3, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.doerpen.de
  5. ↑ 2013 list of candidates
  6. ↑ Results of the 2017 Bundestag election in the constituency, broken down by cities and municipalities
  7. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Bundestag election: These members represent our region . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  8. ↑ main statute of the joint municipality; www.doerpen.de