City of Silberberg

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The Städtebund Silberberg is an association of the cities of Aue , Lauter , Lößnitz , Schneeberg , Schwarzenberg and the municipality Bad Schlema in the southwest of the Free State of Saxony, founded in March 1996 . The adjoining member towns of the city union have a total of 67,894 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) on an area of ​​158.1 km² , which corresponds to a population density of 429 inhabitants per km². The association is pursuing the goal of creating a new medium- sized town over a longer period of time by merging the municipalities involved : the town of Silberberg .

location

The towns of the Silberberg municipal association are located in the west of the Erzgebirge district , along the Schwarzwassers , the Zwickauer Mulde and their side valleys.

tasks

Due to a shared past, local ties and a similar location and topography, the partners signed a public law contract in 1996 which is intended to "control and strengthen cooperation and organize the coordination process in the network while maintaining the legal independence of the municipalities involved" . Urban development, construction management, urban and transport planning, administrative development, budgetary and financial matters, economic development, marketing, culture and tourism are the focal points of the joint work. In 2002, for example, a first joint land use plan was passed, followed in January 2014 by the establishment of a joint registry office between Aue, Bad Schlema, Lößnitz and Schneeberg.

organization

The management level is formed by the city or local councils together with the council of mayors . In 2019 Ingo Seifert is acting chairman of the council of mayors.

The working level, especially working groups, is responsible for the organization and coordination of the federal government, supported by an office. All six municipalities involved had to agree to decisions made by the association of cities.

Desired merger of the cities

In 2006 the mayors of the towns of Aue, Lößnitz, Schneeberg and Bad Schlema affirmed the plan to merge to form a town of Silberberg with their signature ; the place names should be made visible by spelling town Silberberg-Aue etc.

In 2008 it became known that the Saxon Ministry of the Interior, on the basis of professional reports, does not consider the city name Silberberg to be approved due to the risk of confusion with existing cities and districts. A working group that had been advising since January 2009 proposed the double name Aue-Schneeberg in January 2010 in order to maintain the national level of awareness of the desired unified commune. It was decided that in 2011 double-entry bookkeeping should be introduced for all city-union partners.

On January 1, 2013, the city of Lauter merged with the municipality of Bernsbach to form the new city of Lauter-Bernsbach .

The city council of Schneeberg decided to withdraw from the Silberberg project on July 28, 2016.

A referendum on the merger of Aue, Lößnitz, Schneeberg and Bad Schlema should be carried out in autumn 2017. On March 8, 2017, the advisory council of the three cities concerned met in Lößnitz, which together with the mayors laid down six key points for further cooperation. This referendum was canceled due to the previously insufficient awareness and thus acceptance by the residents of the Silberberg cities and the changed situation (exit of Schneeberg). In response to the rejection, it was said, among other things, “The participation of citizens and their decision-making are not yet sufficient for such a merger at the moment. Politics and administration must show the citizens the advantages and disadvantages of such a merger and other alternatives in a comprehensible and comprehensible way ”.

In autumn 2018, the administrations of Aue and Bad Schlema decided to merge under the new city name Aue-Bad Schlema from January 1, 2019. This is seen as the first step towards the desired city union.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony at the end of each month for selected reporting months by municipality ( PDF ; 63 kB), accessed on September 11, 2013
  2. ↑ What is Silberberg? - Why Silberberg? , at www.wir-sind-silberberg.de, accessed on October 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Press release of the city administration of Aue-Bad Schlema from January 23, 2019: Young entrepreneur prize awarded at the New Year's reception. 2. Prize winner donates prize money to day care centers .
  4. ↑ Freie Presse , local edition Aue of November 29, 2008: Reviewer does not believe in Silberberg .
  5. ↑ Freie Presse, local edition Schwarzenberg of January 23, 2010: Aue-Schneeberg inherits Silberberg - Commission proposes double names as a new name for unitary commune . ( Online edition )
  6. ↑ Freie Presse , Schwarzenberg local edition of December 3, 2008: First the bookkeeping, then the marriage .
  7. ^ Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG: Project Silberberg at the end: The snow exit and the consequences. In: Freiepresse.de. July 30, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The date for the referendum is fixed @ stadt-silberberg.de, accessed August 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ Key points of a further collaboration , accessed on August 21, 2017.