Spaniards in Germany

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Relative frequency of Spanish citizenship at district level in 2014 in relation to other foreign population groups

Between the years 1960 and 1973, the immigrant during recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Spain, well over 600,000 Spaniards to Germany one. In 2010 there were 108,469 Spanish citizens living in Germany. In 2012, 37,683 Spaniards moved to Germany, putting the Spaniards in sixth place after Poles , Romanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians and Italians in terms of the number of immigrants . Due to the euro crisis , among other things , the number of Spaniards immigrating to Germany increased by around 9,000 compared to the previous year, which corresponds to an increase of 45%.

A total of 120,231 foreigners with the country of origin Spain were living in Germany on December 31, 2012.

Among the districts and urban districts in the Federal Republic of Germany, the city of Frankfurt am Main had the highest proportion of Spanish migrants in the population in the 2011 census, followed by Remscheid . Other German municipalities with an above-average Spanish population are the Hessian district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg and the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony , where Spanish citizens have the most common foreign citizenship, and the districts of Soest , Osterode am Harz and Braunschweig (as of 2014).

Spanish cultural institutions in Germany

In many German cities there are Spanish cultural associations, Spanish-speaking parishes and Spanish-native-speaking classes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 50 years of Spanish immigration in the FRG
  2. Number of immigrants to Germany by country of origin in 2012
  3. Immigration on the rise - Spaniards storm Germany Handelsblatt, May 7, 2013
  4. Number of foreigners in Germany by country of origin (as of December 31, 2012)
  5. ^ Map page, Spaniards in Germany - Districts Accessed on March 31, 2017.