Integrated municipality Gartow

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Integrated municipality Gartow
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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′  N , 11 ° 28 ′  E

Basic data
Existing period: 1972–
State : Lower Saxony
County : Lüchow-Dannenberg
Area : 134.3 km 2
Residents: 3674 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 27 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : DAN
Association key : 03 3 54 5403
Association structure: 5 municipalities
Association administration address
:
Springstrasse 14
29471 Gartow
Website : www.gartow.de
Mayor of the municipality : Christian Järnecke ( CDU )
Location of the joint municipality Gartow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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The joint municipality Gartow is a joint municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony . Five municipalities are united in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative center of the velvet municipality located in spots Gartow .

geography

Neighboring communities

The joint municipality Gartow borders in the west on the joint municipality Lüchow (Wendland) , in the north on the district of Prignitz ( Brandenburg ), in the east on the district of Stendal and in the south on the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (both Saxony-Anhalt ).

Joint community structure

The integrated municipality Gartow comprises a city, a town and three municipalities.

The Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics does not include the municipality-free Gartow area as part of the Gartow municipality. The size of approximately 134 km² includes the five member communities alone.

history

The joint congregation was formed in 1972 from 16 formerly independent congregations that were merged into the five current member congregations.

religion

62% of the population are Protestant, 4% Catholic.

There are Evangelical Lutheran churches and chapels that belong to the Lüchow-Dannenberg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover in all five places of the combined community :

The few Catholics belong to the parish of St. Agnes in Lüchow , Diocese of Hildesheim . However, a closer place of worship is Lenzen (Elbe) in the Archdiocese of Berlin .

politics

The integrated municipality Gartow belongs to the state constituency 48 Elbe and to the federal constituency 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Joint council

Turnout: 70.1% (2011: 70.6%)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
51.4%
16.7%
15.4%
16.5%
Gains and losses
compared to 2011
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+ 2.3  % p
-1.5  % p
-2.4  % p
+1.6  % p

The council of the Gartow municipality consists of 14 councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for a collective municipality with a population between 3,001 and 5,000 inhabitants. The 14 council members are elected for five years each 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 Community, Christian Järnecke (CDU), is also entitled to vote in the Council of the Joint Community.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 had the following result:

  • CDU : 8 seats (+1)
  • UWG : 2 seats (−1)
  • SPD : 2 seats (+0)
  • GREEN : 2 seats (+0)

Joint mayor of the municipality

Christian Järnecke (CDU) is the full-time mayor of the joint municipality of Gartow. In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was elected with 58.8% of the vote. His opponent Dieter Maurischat (SPD) received 41.2%. The turnout was 68.9%. Järnecke took up his term in office on November 1, 2014, replacing the previous incumbent Friedrich-Wilhelm Schröder, who was no longer running.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the joint municipality Gartow shows nine golden balls on a blue shield (coat of arms of the earlier landlords of Bülow in Gartow).

Community partnerships

A community partnership with the rural community of Sokolow Podlaski in Poland is in 1999.

Web links

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. ^ Samtgemeinde Gartow: Main statutes of the Samtgemeinde Gartow , § 1 Abs. 3 Nr. F
  3. census database
  4. Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note .; 87 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nls.niedersachsen.de
  5. Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn, March 18, 2008, p. 325. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 200 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  6. Result of the Gartow 2016 joint municipal election ( Memento of the original from January 3, 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 December 1, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gartow.de
  7. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on November 19, 2014
  8. Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 19, 2014
  9. Main statutes of the Gartow community ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2015 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 November 19, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gartow.de