Joint community of Jesteburg

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Coat of arms of the Jesteburg municipality
Joint community of Jesteburg
Map of Germany, position of the Samtgemeinde Jesteburg highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Harburg
Area : 37.82 km 2
Residents: 11,144 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 295 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : WL
Association key : 03 3 53 5404
Association structure: 3 municipalities
Association administration address
: 		Niedersachsenplatz 5
21266 Jesteburg
Website : www.jesteburg.de
Samtgemeinde-
mayor : 		Hans-Heinrich Höper (independent)
Location of the joint municipality of Jesteburg in the Harburg district
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The joint municipality of Jesteburg is a joint municipality in the district of Harburg in northern Lower Saxony . Three municipalities have come together in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative seat is in the municipality of Jesteburg .

geography

Geographical location

The combined community is located on the Seeve , north of the Lüneburger Heide nature reserve and south - around 15 km from the state border - the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , in the center of the Harburg district .

Joint community structure

The combined municipality has the following member municipalities (in brackets the population as of August 2012) :

history

The integrated municipality of Jesteburg was formed by the law of the reorganization of the municipalities in Lower Saxony of June 23, 1972 from the previously independent municipalities of Bendestorf , Harmstorf , Jesteburg and Lüllau .

tasks

In principle, the tasks of the joint municipality are laid down in the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Act. To put it simply, the joint municipality forms an amalgamation of several independent municipalities that perform certain tasks that are actually incumbent on each of the municipalities, so to speak bundled for them. Some areas, such as

  • Fire protection - this is how the volunteer fire brigade (the joint municipality) Jesteburg, with the local brigades Bendestorf, Harmstorf, Jesteburg and Lüllau, emerged from the previously independent fire brigades
  • Cemetery affairs
  • primary school

In the course of the law of the reorganization of the municipalities of 1972 transferred to the integrated municipalities as tasks of their own sphere of activity. Others can also be transferred to the joint municipality by resolution of the municipal council.

politics

Joint municipal council election 2016
Turnout: 57.8%
 %
30th
20th
10
0
27.3%
22.0%
14.4%
11.7%
8.9%
5.2%
4.9%
2.8%
UWG Jes! c
BWG e
BUG h
Gains and losses
compared to 2006
 % p
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-7.7  % p
-6.9  % p
+ 14.4  % p
-3.5  % p
-0.4  % p
+ 2.0  % p
+ 0.4  % p
± 0.0  % p
UWG Jes! c
BWG e
BUG h
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Remarks:
c Jesteburg independent voter community
e Bendestorfer community of voters
h Bendestorfer Independent Group

Joint council

The council of the Jesteburg municipality consists of 28 councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for a joint municipality with a population between 10,001 and 11,000 inhabitants. The 28 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time Mayor of the Joint Community, Hans-Heinrich Höper (independent), 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)
  • SPD : 6 seats (−2)
  • GREEN : 3 seats (−1)
  • BWG: 3 seats (+1)
  • FWG: 1 seat (± 0)
  • FDP : 2 seats (+1)
  • BOW: 1 seat (± 0)
  • UWG Jes !: 4 seats (+4)

Joint mayor of the municipality

Full-time Mayor of the Joint Community of Jesteburg is Hans-Heinrich Höper (independent). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was re-elected as incumbent with 74.5% of the vote. His rival candidate Philipp-Alexander Wagner (FDP) received 25.5%. The turnout was 54.0%. Höper began his further term in office on November 1, 2014.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a silver castle with a silver wavy strip in the shield base."

The joint municipality does not have a coat of arms, it bears that of the municipality of Jesteburg by agreement .

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. ↑ Location information ( memento from June 7, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 7, 2015
  3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on November 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 19, 2014