Integrated community of Ostheide
coat of arms | Germany map | |
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ' N , 10 ° 31' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Lower Saxony | |
County : | Luneburg | |
Area : | 129.79 km 2 | |
Residents: | 10,332 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 80 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | LG | |
Association key : | 03 3 55 5406 | |
Association structure: | 6 municipalities | |
Association administration address : |
Schulstrasse 2 21397 Barendorf |
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Website : | ||
Samtgemeinde- mayor : |
Norbert Meyer ( SPD ) | |
Location of the Ostheide municipality in the Lüneburg district | ||
The joint municipality of Ostheide is a joint municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony . Six municipalities have come together in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative seat of the joint municipality is in the municipality of Barendorf .
geography
Joint community structure
The following member communities belong to the combined community:
politics
The combined municipality belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .
Joint council
The council of the integrated municipality Ostheide consists of 26 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a joint municipality with a population between 10,001 and 11,000 inhabitants. The 26 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, Norbert Meyer (SPD), is also entitled to vote in the Council of the Joint Community.
Since the last local election on September 11, 2011, the Samtgemeinderat has been composed as follows:
Parties and constituencies |
Voices 2011 |
% 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
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SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 5,975 | 42.11 | 11 | |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 4,489 | 31.64 | 8th | |
GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 2,339 | 16.48 | 4th | |
Citizens' Forum Barendorf | 834 | 5.88 | 2 | ||
LEFT | The left | 344 | 2.42 | 1 | |
FDP | Free Democratic Party | 208 | 1.47 | - | |
total | 14,189 | 100.0 | 26th | ||
Voter turnout in% | 59.89 |
Joint mayor of the municipality
Norbert Meyer (SPD) has been the full-time joint mayor of the joint municipality of Ostheide since 2006. In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was re-elected as incumbent with 66.8% of the vote. His opponent Karsten Johansson (CDU) received 33.2%. The turnout was 54.5%. Meyer began his further term on November 1, 2014.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Samtgemeinde Ostheide shows a blue, diagonal wavy bar in gold, below a green six-leaf oak branch, which is covered by two black, diagonally crossed gable boards with inward-turned horse heads, above a black elk shovel.
Community partnerships
- Canton of Criquetot-l'Esneval in ( France ), since 1979
- Chojniki in ( Belarus ), since 1995
literature
- Horst-Dieter Freiherr von Enzberg, Dietmar Gehrke: From the past of the villages of the Ostheide community. From the beginning until the 19th century. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2001, ISBN 978-3-89876-034-8
Web links
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 21, 2014
- ↑ http://wahl.luenecom.de/ostheide/ostheide.html
- ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 19, 2014
- ↑ Main statutes of the Ostheide community , accessed on November 21, 2014