Selsingen municipality
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ' N , 9 ° 13' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Rotenburg (Wümme) | |
| Area : | 226.36 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9534 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 42 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | ROW, BRV | |
| Association key : | 03 3 57 5404 | |
| Association structure: | 8 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Bahnhofstrasse 8 27446 Selsingen |
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| Mayor of the municipality : | Gerhard Kahrs ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the Selsingen municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district | ||
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In the Selsingen joint municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony , eight municipalities have come together to handle their administrative business.
geography
Joint community structure
Attractions
The passage grave near Ostereistedt , near Wennebostel farm, in the Harsefeld state forest is located southwest of Ostereistedt in the Selsingen municipality.
politics
Joint council
The council of the Selsingen community consists of 24 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 9,001 and 10,000. 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 Community, Gerhard Kahrs (CDU), is also entitled to vote in the Council of the Joint Community.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:
| Political party | Proportional votes | Number of seats |
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| CDU | 60.37% | 15th |
| SPD | 25.43% | 6th |
| WFB joint municipality Selsingen | 6.72% | 3 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 67.36%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.
Joint mayor of the municipality
The mayor of the municipality is Gerhard Kahrs (CDU). In the mayoral election on September 11, 2016, he was the only candidate to be elected with 82.2 percent of the vote.
Coat of arms, flag, official seal
The coat of arms, flag and official seal of the joint municipality are specified in Section 2 of the main statutes:
- Description of coat of arms
- "In silver a blue pyramid topped with an eight-spoke silver mill wheel with 21 blades."
- Reason
The pyramid points to the coat of arms of the seat of Selsingen. It is the symbol for the place of justice in the court of the noble residence of the Knights of Selsingen. The silver mill wheel indicates that 6 out of 8 member communities were or are locations of mills, a total of 9 mills, of which 4 are water mills. As an outward sign of the solidarity in the joint community, the mill wheel has 8 spokes for the 8 member communities and 21 blades for the formerly 21 independent communities in the joint community of Selsingen.
- Flag description
- "The flag of the Selsingen municipality is blue and silver with the municipality's coat of arms in the middle."
- Official seal
- "The official seal contains the coat of arms and the inscription 'Samtgemeinde Selsingen, Landkreis Rotenburg (Wümme)'."
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 March 16, 2017
- ↑ a b Selsingen municipality - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election ( memento of the original from March 17, 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 March 16, 2017.
- ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Main statutes of the Selsingen municipality ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
