Meinersen municipality

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Meinersen municipality
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Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '  N , 10 ° 22'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Gifhorn
Area : 173.09 km 2
Residents: 20,351 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 118 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : GF
Association key : 03 1 51 5405
Association structure: 4 municipalities
Association administration address
: 		Hauptstrasse 1
38536 Meinersen
Website : www.sg-meinersen.de
Samtgemeinde-
mayor : 		Eckhard Montzka (independent)
Location of the Meinersen municipality in the Gifhorn district
Schwülper Vordorf Didderse Adenbüttel Hillerse Meine Wasbüttel Rötgesbüttel Leiferde Isenbüttel Ribbesbüttel Calberlah Wagenhoff Meinersen Osloß Bokensdorf Ummern Wesendorf Müden (Aller) Sassenburg Gifhorn Schönewörde Wahrenholz Wahrenholz Groß Oesingen Steinhorst Hankensbüttel Sprakensehl Obernholz Dedelstorf Weyhausen Tappenbeck Jembke Barwedel Bergfeld Tiddische Rühen Parsau gemeindefreies Gebiet Giebel Parsau Tülau Brome Ehra-Lessien Wittingen Landkreis Gifhorn Niedersachsen Wolfsburg Braunschweig Landkreis Helmstedt Landkreis Peine Region Hannover Landkreis Celle Landkreis Uelzen Sachsen-Anhalt Sachsen-Anhaltmap
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In the Meinersen joint municipality in the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony , four municipalities have come together to handle their administrative business.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Meinersen is located on the Papenteich plateau and in the Allerurstromtal between the Harz Mountains and the heath , north of the city of Braunschweig .

Waters

In addition to the two larger rivers, the Oker and Aller , which flow into one another when tired, there are also several smaller streams and bodies of water such as the Viehmoorgraben within the Meinersen municipality.

Joint community structure

The 4 member communities with their associated districts and settlements
local community Residents (main residence)
(August 31, 2015) 		Area:
in km²		 Density
in population / km²		 Districts / settlements
Hillerse community 2,492 24.52 101 Hillerse, Volkse
Leiferde community 4,345 29.16 149 Leiferde, Dalldorf
Meinersen parish 8,183 56.47 144 Ahnsen , Böckelse , Hardesse , Höfen , Meinersen, Ohof , Päse , Seershausen , Warmse
Community of Müden 5,446 68.89 79 Bokelberge , Brenneckenbrück , Dieckhorst , Ettenbüttel , Flettmar , Gerstenbüttel , Gilde , Müden

population

Demographic data

According to the Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics , in 2005 20,940 people lived in the Meinersen municipality in 6088 buildings with a total of 7977 apartments with an average living space of 44.3 m per person. Since the establishment of the joint municipality, the number of inhabitants has grown steadily, both through positive natural population development and positive net migration. In 2005, 23.70% of the population were under 18 years old, 8.30% between 18 and 25, 29.30% between 25 and 45, 24.00% between 45 and 64, and 14.70% were 65 years old or older older. The unemployment rate averaged 11.7% (men: 10.2%, women: 16.4%). 5,811 people regularly commute out of the integrated community, 1,375 in.

politics

Joint council

The most recent local election took place on September 11, 2016, with a turnout of 58.3%. The Samtgemeinderat continues after the preliminary results were as follows:

Distribution of seats after the 2016 joint municipal council election
     
A total of 34 seats

The CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen form a parliamentary group, as do the SPD and Die LINKE.

Joint mayor of the municipality

With the joint mayor election in 2007, the new Lower Saxony municipal constitution came into effect in the Meinersen joint municipality. With it ended the traditional personal separation between mayor (politics) and community director (administration), instead the "single track" was introduced. The mayor is now head of administration and politics rolled into one. In the history of the Meinersen municipality, the office of mayor was held by:

  • 1974–1980 Rolf Marsik (CDU)
  • 1980–1982 Friedrich Marwede (CDU)
  • 1982–2001 Hans-Joachim Könecke (CDU)
  • 2001-2007 Walter-Gerd Stubbe (CDU)
  • 2007–2015 Heinrich Wrede (CDU)
  • since 2015 Eckhard Montzka (independent)

Parliament

The integrated community of Meinersen is part of the Gifhorn-Süd state electoral district ; Philipp Raulfs (SPD) has been directly elected member since the 2017 state elections

Bundestag

As part of Bundestag constituency 45 (Gifhorn - Peine) , Meinersen has been represented in the German Bundestag by Hubertus Heil (SPD) since 1998 . With the resignation of Ursula Von Der Leyens, Ingrid Pahlmann , who comes from the same constituency, moved up on the CDU 2019 state list .

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Gifhorn, Meinersen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gerhard Oberbeck: The medieval cultural landscape of the area around Gifhorn . Bremen-Horn 1957.
  • Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): The district of Gifhorn . In: The districts in Gifhorn . Vol. 26. Bremen 1972, ISBN 3-87172-327-4 .

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  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ↑ IHK Braunschweig: Regional Report 2006 ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.braunschweig.ihk.de
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