District of Western Pomerania-Rügen
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Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ' N , 13 ° 1' E |
| Basic data | |
| Existing period: | 2011– |
| State : | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Administrative headquarters : | Stralsund |
| Area : | 3,207.37 km 2 |
| Residents: | 224,702 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 70 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG, (HST) |
| Circle key : | 13 0 73 |
| NUTS : | DE80L |
| Circle structure: | 101 parishes |
| Address of the district administration: |
Carl-Heydemann-Ring 67 18437 Stralsund |
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| District Administrator : | Stefan Kerth ( SPD ) |
| Location of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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The Vorpommern-Rügen is since 2011 existing district in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . It includes the northern part of Western Pomerania and a small part of Mecklenburg west of Recknitz and Trebel .
The district town is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund . In Bergen auf Rügen , Grimmen , Ribnitz-Damgarten and Barth there are branch offices of the district administration. The district is a member of the transnational federation of the Euroregion Pomerania .
geography
The district of Vorpommern-Rügen borders in the southeast on the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald , in the southwest on the district of Rostock , and a small part in the south on the district of Mecklenburg Lake District .
The most important rivers in the Vorpommern-Rügen district are the Recknitz, Trebel and Barthe . The district area also includes Germany's largest island, Rügen , with the two offshore islands Hiddensee and Ummanz . The Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula chain south of the Baltic Sea , which is an important tourist area, is also part of the district.
Western Pomerania-Rügen is the fifth largest district in terms of area in the Federal Republic of Germany .
history
The present-day district of Vorpommern-Rügen comprises the northwestern part of Western Pomerania and in the western part a strip of the Mecklenburg heartland west of Recknitz and Trebel.
Although the district is a new creation and there have been other territorial divisions in between, its extent bears great resemblance to the Slavic principality of Rügen , which, according to pagan prehistory, had been a Christian state since the 10th century from 1168, mostly dependent on fiefdom from Denmark , and only in 1325 the Duchy of Pomerania was connected.
GDR
In 1945, at the instigation of the Soviet occupying power, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was founded, which was renamed "Mecklenburg" in 1947. The middle level of state administration in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was reorganized in 1952. In place of countries were GDR districts . The area of the "State of Mecklenburg" was divided into the districts of Rostock , Schwerin and Neubrandenburg .
In the Rostock district, the GDR districts of Rügen , Stralsund , Grimmen and Ribnitz-Damgarten as well as the urban district of Stralsund were formed at the same time in what is now the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . The historical border between Pomerania and Mecklenburg was disregarded when planning the districts. In this context, some Mecklenburg communities west of the former Recknitz border river were assigned to the Ribnitz-Damgarten district , which means that today's "Vorpommern-Rügen district" is also made up of parts of the Mecklenburg area.
District reform in 1994
In 1994 the former GDR districts of Grimmen, Stralsund and Ribnitz-Damgarten merged into the district of Northern Western Pomerania . The district of Rügen continued to exist, as did the urban district of Stralsund as an independent city of Stralsund.
District reform 2011
The current district of Western Pomerania-Rügen ( planning name: District of Northern Pomerania ) was created in the course of the district reform Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2011 on September 4, 2011 from the districts of Northern Pomerania and Rügen and the previously independent Hanseatic city of Stralsund . Stralsund was set as the district town.
On the day the district reform came into force and at the same time as the state elections , the voters chose the new district council and voted on the district name. The name Ostseekreis Stralsund , proposed by the district of North Western Pomerania and the Hanseatic City of Stralsund, was also available. "Vorpommern-Rügen" won with a narrow majority of 51.0% of the votes cast.
Cities, municipalities and offices
The largest town and seat of the district is Stralsund , which together with the nearby Greifswald forms an upper center of the region. The next largest cities in Western Pomerania-Rügen are Ribnitz-Damgarten , Bergen auf Rügen and Grimmen , which in turn are medium-sized centers .
In the Regional Spatial Development Program Vorpommern (RREP) of 2010, the following basic centers in the district are also defined: Bad Sülze , Barth , Binz , Franzburg / Richtenberg , Garz / Rügen , Marlow , Putbus , Sagard , Samtens , Sassnitz , Sellin / Baabe , Tribsees and Zingst . The western part of the district also benefits from its proximity to the Rostock Regiopole with its diverse range of offers.
Cities and municipalities including the number of inhabitants on December 31, 2019:
- Binz (5393)
- Grimmen , City (9489)
- Marlow , Town (4594)
- Putbus , City (4435)
- Sassnitz , City (9186)
- Stralsund , Hanseatic City and Large District City (59,418)
- Süderholz [seat: Poggendorf] (4042)
- Zingst (3113)
Offices with municipalities and cities
belonging to the office * Seat of the official administration
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Territory changes
- Dissolution of the municipality of Bartelshagen II b. Barth - integration into the community of Saal (January 1, 2014)
- Dissolution of the communities of Gager , Middelhagen and Thiessow - merger to form the community of Mönchgut (January 1, 2018)
- Dissolution of the communities of Kummerow and Neu Bartelshagen - integration into the community of Niepars (May 26, 2019)
politics
District council
Voting in percent
Vorpommern-Rügen district council 2019
- THE LEFT. : 11
- GREEN : 7
- SPD : 7
- FOR RÜGEN : 2
- Citizens for Western Pomerania-Rügen : 2
- FREE VOTERS : 2
- Adomeit voter group : 1
- Citizens for Stralsund : 4
- FDP : 3
- CDU : 20
- AfD : 10
On May 26, 2019, at the same time as the European elections , the third election for the Vorpommern-Rügen district took place. The district council consists of 69 members. After the election it is composed as follows:
| Parties and constituencies | Percent 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
Percent 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
Percent 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
Percent 2009 |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 29.2 | 20th | 41.1 | 28 | 35.1 | 24 | 40.3 | |
| THE LEFT. | THE LEFT. | 16.3 | 11 | 16.9 | 12 | 19.5 | 14th | 20.1 | |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 14.9 | 10 | 4.6 | 3 | - | - | - | |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 10.2 | 7th | 5.6 | 4th | 6.2 | 4th | 2.3 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 9.7 | 7th | 13.4 | 9 | 19.4 | 14th | 11.9 | |
| Citizens for Stralsund | Citizens for Stralsund | 5.1 | 4th | 3.6 | 3 | 3.0 | 2 | 2.8 | |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 3.8 | 3 | 3.6 | 3 | 4.8 | 3 | 9.3 | |
| BVR | Citizens for Western Pomerania-Rügen | 3.3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| FR | FOR RÜGEN | 2.3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| FREE VOTERS | FREE VOTERS | 2.2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Adomeit | Voting group Adomeit | 0.9 | 1 | 1.5 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.3 | |
| NPD | National Democratic Party of Germany | 0.8 | - | 2.5 | 2 | 4.3 | 3 | 2.2 | |
| WGW | Wittenhagen community of voters | 0.4 | - | 0.4 | - | - | - | 0.4 | |
| DF | THE FREE | 0.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| DKP | German Communist Party | 0.3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| BFR | ALLIANCE FOR RÜGEN | - | - | 1.8 | 1 | 2.8 | 2 | 3.6 | |
| Farmers association | Farmers Association and Rural Area | - | - | 3.6 | 3 | 3.1 | 2 | 1.6 | |
| Others | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.5 | ||
| Individual applicants | - | - | 1.4 | - | 0.8 | - | 0.6 | ||
| total | 100 | 69 | 100 | 69 | 100 | 69 | 100 | ||
| Turnout in percent | 54.3 | 44.6 | 48.1 | 45.0 | |||||
- Others: 2009: FORUM (1.9%), FWG Niepars (0.7%), WG Prohn (0.5%), RP (0.2%) and REP (0.2%).
- Individual applicants: 2014: Henning Heyden (0.4%), Mario Galepp (0.3%), Rita Falkert (0.2%), Frank Seifert (0.2%), Wolfgang Fröhlich (0.1%), Manfred Butter (0.1%) and Sebastian Koesling (0.1%); 2011: Hans-Jürgen Fritzsche (0.3%), Bodo Teichmann (0.2%), Karl-Heinz Grießbach (0.2%) and Wolfgang Fröhlich (0.1%); 2009: k. A.
- The result of the district election in 2009 was converted to the 2011 election area.
The following parliamentary groups have formed in the district council: CDU (20 members), DIE LINKE. (11 members), GRÜNE / FR (9 members), SPD (7 members), FDP / Bürger für Stralsund (7 members), AfD (6 members), BVR / FREIE VÄHLER (4 members). 4 members of the AfD formed a separate parliamentary group that was initially called AfD2, later renamed itself to AfVR ("Alternative Fraction Vorpommern-Rügen") and finally dissolved on December 31, 2019. So there are currently (April 2020) 5 Non-attached members of the district council: Ex-AfD (4 members) and Adomeit (1 member).
From 2011 to 2019, the CDU and SPD formed a coalition in the district council. This lost its majority in the 2019 election. There is currently no formal coalition in the district council.
District Administrator
The district administrator was decided in a runoff between Ralf Drescher (CDU, former district administrator of Northern Pomerania) and Kerstin Kassner (left, former district administrator of Rügen) on September 18, 2011. The table shows the results.
| candidate | 1st ballot (Sept. 4, 2011) | Runoff election (Sept. 18, 2011) | ||
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| be right | proportion of | be right | proportion of | |
| Ralf Drescher (CDU) | 39,487 | 42.5% | 33.206 | 51.7% |
| Kerstin Kassner (The Left) | 33.121 | 35.7% | 31,079 | 48.3% |
| Peter van Slooten (SPD) | 14,047 | 15.1% | ||
| Kai Danter (B90 / The Greens) | 6,203 | 6.7% | ||
| Possible voices | 198,301 | 100.0% | 197,683 | 100.0% |
| of which votes cast | 95,322 | 48.1% | 64,767 | 32.8% |
| of which valid votes | 92,858 | 97.4% | 64,285 | 99.3% |
The district administrator of the new Greater Vorpommern-Rügen district was the CDU candidate Ralf Drescher until October 5, 2018 . Since October 10, 2018, the elected district administrator is the SPD candidate Stefan Kerth .
Coat of arms, flag and official seal
On December 17, 2012, the district council decided to use the coat of arms described below, which the Minister of the Interior and Sport of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania approved in a document dated March 7, 2013. The coat of arms was entered in the country's coat of arms under number 345.
- Description of coat of arms
- "Above a blue shield base, inside a striding red-tongued golden griffin with a raised tail, split in front in gold a left-facing, upright, red-tongued black griffin with a raised tail, the lower wing feathers of the wing silver, behind in gold a floating, open red stepped gable Growing from five stones, red crowned, tongued and valued, double-tailed black lion. In the gap between the fangs of the griffin and the paws of the lion, not touching, a red shield with a silver arrowhead topped by a silver paw cross. "
- meaning
The chosen symbols of the coat of arms reflect the historical roots of today's district of Vorpommern-Rügen, all parts of the new district are represented: The black griffin stands for the areas of Western Pomerania. It has been the symbol for Western Pomerania since the Middle Ages and goes back to the coat of arms of the former Duchy of Pommern-Barth . And the largest area of the new district is formerly North Western Pomerania. Rügen, both the district and the island, has been symbolized by a black lion on a red stepped gable since the 13th century. Of course, this symbol has also found its place in the new coat of arms. This also applies to the coat of arms of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, which is held in the middle by Greif and Löwen. And the blue shield base with the striding golden griffin symbolizes the Mecklenburg part of the new district area, parts of the former Rostock rule.
District coat of arms since March 2013
until 2011 independent Hanseatic city of Stralsund
former Rügen district
Rostock
The municipal coats of arms of the district are listed in the list of coats of arms in the Vorpommern-Rügen district .
On September 2, 2013, the district council decided to adopt the flag described below. Approval from the responsible interior ministry is still pending. However, in a letter dated August 7, 2013, it indicated that the draft that had now been approved could be approved.
- Flag description
- “The flag of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen is evenly striped lengthways with blue and yellow. In the middle of the flag is the coat of arms of the district, two thirds of the height of the blue and yellow stripes. The height of the flag cloth is related to the length as 3: 5. "
- Official seal
The district of Vorpommern-Rügen has an official seal. The official seal contains the coat of arms with the inscription "Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen" in capital letters with consecutive numbering. Before accepting and approving its own district coat of arms, the district had the small state seal with the coat of arms of the Western Pomerania region, an upright griffin with a raised tail as an official seal.
traffic
Traffic in Stralsund
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The most important traffic structure near Stralsund has been the new Rügen bridge built as a high bridge over the Strelasund since 2007 , which is intended to relieve the old Rügen dam. Stralsund has a feeder to the federal autobahn 20 and is on the federal highways B 105 from Rostock or Greifswald / Neubrandenburg , B 194 from Grimmen and B 96 from Bergen auf Rügen .
Stralsund Hbf can be reached by train from Berlin ( via Prenzlau or Neubrandenburg ) and Rostock . The Stralsund-Grünhufe stop is located on the latter connection. On the route to Bergen , Sassnitz and Binz on the island of Rügen, there is the Stralsund Rügen train station in front of the Strelasund crossing on the mainland .
Stralsund has a city port and several marinas and is approached by yachts, river and sea cruise ships. There is also a seaport for cargo ships . In 2006 more than 1,000,000 tons of goods were handled. The nearest airports are the airport Barth , the Rostock Airport and the airfield Stralsund (just north of Stralsund).
The transport Stralsund GmbH served by buses, the city and the surrounding area. Trams also ran until 1966 .
The cycle path along Deutsche Alleenstraße and the international Baltic Sea Cycle Path (German part: Ostseeküstenroute (D2) ) run past Stralsund.
Traffic in the former Rügen district
The federal highway 96 is the main artery of road traffic on Rügen. The first bridge between Stralsund on the mainland and Altefähr on Rügen, the Rügen dam , was completed in 1936, a second bridge in 2007. The railway line from Lietzow to Stralsund is double-track and electrified. The other sections to Sassnitz and Binz are single-track. Air traffic with small machines takes place via the Rügen airfield .
Big roads in the district area
The A 20 federal motorway runs through the district of Vorpommern-Rügen and extends from the Uckermark junction in Brandenburg to Bad Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein . In addition, with the B 105 , B 194 , B 196 and B 96, four federal highways run through the great district.
Education and Research
Colleges
The Stralsund University was founded in 1990. The university is state sponsored by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Vocational schools
There are vocational schools with different subject orientations. a. in Stralsund , Barth and Ribnitz-Damgarten .
schools
There are, among others, the following state high schools in the district:
- Barth school center, “Katharina von Hagenow” high school section in Barth
- Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium in Bergen on Rügen
- Grimmen High School in Grimmen
- Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium in Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Hansa-Gymnasium in Stralsund
- School center on the Sund with the Goethe-Gymnasium in Stralsund
- Integrated comprehensive school Grünthal (with upper secondary school) in Stralsund
religion
In the district of Vorpommern-Rügen there are Evangelical Lutheran parishes, until 2012 these belonged mostly to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church and to a lesser extent to the Rostock parish of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg . Since 2012, both have been united in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Most of the Catholic parishes belong to the Deanery of Western Pomerania of the Archdiocese of Berlin and a small part of the Deanery of Rostock of the Archdiocese of Hamburg .
Protected areas
There are 51 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).
License Plate
On September 4, 2011, the district was assigned the distinctive signs NVP (Northern Pomerania) and RÜG (Rügen) of the two old districts. These remained valid in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen until the abbreviation VR was introduced there on February 1, 2012 . The Hanseatic city of Stralsund kept its abbreviation HST and is still there today. The district of Rügen also retained its abbreviation. However, this only applied to the islands of Rügen and Hiddensee in addition to the possible VR .
Since March 15, 2013, the differentiators GMN (Grimmen), NVP and RDG (Ribnitz-Damgarten) are available again.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
- ↑ Euroregion Pomerania - area and partners ( memento of November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 13, 2015
- ^ Result of the vote on the name of the new district
- ^ Suggested names for naming the new districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- ↑ Statistical Notebooks Elections 2011 Election Booklet 2/2012
- ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Vorpommern (RREP) 2010 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - central-local structure with upper, middle and basic centers, accessed on July 12, 2015
- ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
- ↑ Final election result of the district election of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on May 26, 2019 (announcement of May 4, 2019)
- ↑ mvnet.de: Election of the district assemblies of the districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 4, 2011: Final result , accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ mvnet.de: Result of the district elections 2009 converted to electoral area 2011 , accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ cdu-vr.de, June 27, 2014: Harry Glawe: Coalition agreement is a joint work program for the coming years in the Vorpommern-Rügen district , CDU district association Vorpommern-Rügen, accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ laiv-mv.de: Mechklenburg-Vorpommern: Statistische Hefte, Wahlen 2011, Wahlheft 2/2012 (PDF; 4.0 MB; 156 pages), accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ laiv-mv.de: Mechklenburg-Vorpommern: Statistische Hefte, Wahlen 2011, Wahlheft 2/2012 (PDF; 4.0 MB; 156 pages), p. 16 (pdf), accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ Stefan Kerth appointed District Administrator of Vorpommern-Rügen . In: www.t-online.de . ( t-online.de [accessed October 18, 2018]).
- ↑ lk-vr.de: WAPPENBRIEF on the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (PDF; 2.3 MB; 3 pages), accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ a b § 2 of the main statute of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b kreis-vr.de: decision adopting a flag for the Vorpommern-Rügen from September 2, 2013 (PDF, 202 kB; 1 page), accessed on 6 April of 2019.
- ↑ kreis-vr.de: Resolution draft BV / 1/0280 (for the adoption of a flag for the district of Vorpommern-Rügen) (PDF; 267 kB; 2 pages), accessed on April 6, 2019.
- ↑ § 2 of the original version of the main statute of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen (PDF; 721 kB; 13 pages), announcement of November 30, 2011, accessed on April 6, 2019.
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