Wolfsburg law

Basic data
Title:	Law on the reorganization of the communities in the Wolfsburg area
Short title:	Wolfsburg law
Type:	State Law
Scope:	Lower Saxony
Legal matter:	Local law
Issued on:	May 10, 1972 ( Nds. GVBl . P. 269)
Entry into force on:	July 1, 1972
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Wolfsburg Law (official name: Law for the reorganization of the communities in the Wolfsburg area ) incorporated twenty surrounding villages into the city of Wolfsburg in the course of the Lower Saxony municipal reform of 1972 . As a result, the population of the city exceeded the 100,000 limit and Wolfsburg achieved the status of a large city with almost 131,000 inhabitants. The area of ​​the city increased in this way from 35 to 204 km². Eleven directly elected local councils, each with a local mayor, were set up for the incorporated districts. The Wolfsburg Law also regulated several area amalgamations in the surrounding area.

Incorporated places

The incorporated places included the city of Fallersleben , the communities of Almke , Barnstorf , Ehmen , Hattorf , Hehlingen , Heiligendorf , Mörse , Neindorf , Sandkamp and Sülfeld ( district of Gifhorn ) as well as the city of Vorsfelde , the communities of Brackstedt , Kästorf , Neuhaus , Nordsteimke , Reislingen , Velstove , Warmenau and Wendschott ( Helmstedt district ).

Incorporation into the city of Wolfsburg from the Gifhorn district from the district of Helmstedt Almke Kaestorf Barnstorf Brackstedt Ehmen Neuhaus Fallersleben Nordsteimke Hattorf Reislingen Hehlingen Velstove Heiligendorf Vorsfelde Exchange Warmenau Neindorf Wendschott Sandkamp Sülfeld

Further reclassifications

• Formation of the joint municipality Boldecker Land in the district of Gifhorn from six municipalities; In 1971, the inclusion of Brackstedt and the name "Samtgemeinde Weyhausen" were planned
• Formation of the joint community of Rorien from the communities of Bergfeld , Parsau , Rorien and Tiddische , at the same time - together with the community-free area Giebel  - change from the district of Helmstedt and administrative district of Braunschweig to the district of Gifhorn and administrative district of Lüneburg
• Formation of the integrated community Velpke in the district of Helmstedt from 16 formerly independent communities that merged to form five communities
• Merger of seven communities in the Braunschweig district and the Essenrode community in the Gifhorn district to form a teaching community in the Helmstedt district

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Wolfsburg (ed.): 50 years of Wolfsburg in the mirror of the press. Wolfsburg 1988, p. 62.
2. ↑ History of the Samtgemeinde Brome (PDF; 21 kB), accessed on March 22, 2013.
3. ↑ Formation of the Samtgemeinde Velpke , accessed on February 10, 2016.