Saarbrücken (district)
The Regional Association Saarbrücken is a local government association in the Saarland. Seat of the Regional Council and its committees is Saarbrücken. As an Official Residence serves primarily Saarbrücken Castle.
The Regional Association Saarbrücken is bordered to the west by the district of Saarlouis, in the north of the district of Neunkirchen, in the east on the Saar Pfalz-Kreis and on the south by a French department of Moselle.
It was created on 1 January 2008 as part of a reform of administrative structures adopted by the Parliament of Saarland on 27 November 2007 as the legal successor of the Urban Community of Saarbrücken and is a Local Government Association, a special kind from the city federation, the regional association differs mainly by a change in organ structure.
- 4.1 City Association President
- 4.2 Regional Association Director
- 4.3 Cooperation
- 4.4 Legal Review
- 4.5 Regional Association as a local authority
- 4.6 Regional Assembly
- 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Road Traffic
- 5.1.2 Railway
- 5.1.3 Other public transport
- 5.1.4 airport
- 5.1.5 Marine
Geography
The Regional Association Saarbrücken has a share in mid- Saar Valley, and on the Warndt Saar-Nahe - Bergland. The Saar flows through the dressing area from the French border in Sarreguemines (German: Sarreguemines ) in the southeast to behind Völklingen in the northwest.
Largest and most important city of the Regional Council is the state capital of Saarbrücken, the smallest municipality is Großrosseln.
History
The original city of Saarbrücken was 1 January 1974 as part of the administrative and territorial reform of the Saarland by the union of the district of Saarbrücken with the formerly county- town of Saarbrücken. This has put the whole of Germany until then unique local authority which in its function resembled a county, but for the city of member municipalities took on further responsibilities.
The district of Saarbrücken in 1816 formed as a one- Prussia hurried his provinces in administrative districts and counties. Prussia came in 1815, after the Second Peace of Paris, in the possession of areas along the Saar, as the border with France redetermined and the former German Duodezfürstentümer were officially dissolved in the southwest of the Old Kingdom. Historically, the city federation covered in large part with the former county of Saarbrücken, whose heraldic animals ( the silver lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken and the golden lion Nassauer ) of the City Association leads in the arms.
The administrative structure reform bill, which was decided by the Parliament of Saarland on 21 November 2007 with the votes of the CDU majority faction, the city association was transferred on 1 January 2008 in the regional Saarbrücken. Significant difference from the previous organ structure is the creation of the Cooperation Council of representatives of the member municipalities who perceives parts of the self-government affairs in addition to the regional assembly directly elected by the population. The constitutional admissibility of this new construct is by renowned legal scholars doubted ( eg in a report of the German County, the city of Saarbrücken had commissioned ).
Coat of arms
The quartered coat of arms of the regional association Saarbrücken shows the first and fourth field the silver lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken- COMMERCY and in the second and third the golden lion of the Counts and Princes of Nassau- Saarbrücken.
Religion
The majority of the population ( about 60%) belongs today to the Roman Catholic Church. Historically, the circumstances were different, since the Reformation had been introduced to the Lutheran Confessions in the county of Saarbrücken in 1575. Began early in the 17th century with the scheduled settlement Reformed Huguenots and, under pressure from the Reunionspolitik Louis XIV, with the readmission of the Catholic Church, the denominational diversity. Due to the immigration of workers for the mining industry during the industrialization in the 19th century, the denomination ratio shifted. The Catholic communities belong almost exclusively to the diocese of Trier, only a few communities in the east of Saarbrücken belong to the diocese of Speyer.
The Protestant population in the county and the city was ( except the municipalities Ensheim and Schnappach that the Palatine country church fall ) since the Saarbrücken Union of the former Lutheran Church of the county with the two Reformed congregations in Saarbrücken and Ludweiler 1817 to form the Evangelical Church in Prussia ( from 1922 under the name Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union, APU, EKapU ), and formed there in 1826 to the ecclesiastical province of the Rhine Province with the provincial consistory in Koblenz (from 1934 in Dusseldorf ). 1947, the ecclesiastical province was as Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ( EKiR ) an independent national church and to 2003 member church of the Evangelical Church of the Union ( EKU, so the name of the reorganized APU from 1953). Almost all Protestant communities in the regional association are assigned to the EKiR.
Policy
The bodies of the Urban Community of Saarbrücken were the directly elected city Verbandstag ( equivalent to a county council ), the Planning Council and the City of association committee as " legislative " and the City Association President as Head of Administration and Chairman of the Urban Community of day (legally a district comparable).
City Association President
Regional Association Director
On 1 January 2008, Ulf Huppert (FDP) as acting " commissioner for the Office of the Regional Director's Association ".
On 7 June 2009 the Office of the Regional Director's Association first stood for election. None of the candidates could win an absolute majority on that day. In the runoff election on June 21, 2009, continued Peter Gillo (SPD ) with 60.22 % against Rainer Green ( CDU) with 39.78 % through. This Gillo could in all municipalities of the Regional Association except Nailsworth more votes to unite than its competitor. The turnout was only 21.2% in the second ballot.
Cooperation
Significant municipal tasks are to be decided from the date of the next municipal election not by the elected by the citizens of the City Association Regional Assembly, but by a Cooperation of representatives of the member municipalities. His responsibilities extend to certain enummerativ in § 211a KSVG nF Enumerated local self-government affairs. This meets the cooperation thoughts and the special need for coordination in the Saarbrücken city -suburban area should be worn.
As before, one of these tasks, the land-use planning, the exceptionally transmitted as originally communal task to deal with the special urban-rural situation the parent level and is conducted by a specially established Planning Council. Newly added to the cooperation tasks are the economic development, public transportation, and the coordination of sporting, recreational and leisure activities. In addition, the Cooperation Council has a number of rights to be heard in matters for which the Regional Assembly is responsible.
Legal review
Because of the matters arising from Article 28 paragraph 1 sentence 2 of the Basic requirement of emerging from the immediate popular election representative body that has generally fulfill all municipal affairs, the establishment of the Cooperation Council shall be held unconstitutional. As the members of the Cooperation Council shall be charged by the communities, the absence of a homogeneous direct democratic legitimacy. The contrary view holds the Cooperation admissible since it only a part of local government matters has been transferred and the important budgetary powers remain in the Regional Assembly. A final clarification will probably bring only the Constitutional Court of the Saarland. At present it is still unclear whether the so far announced process is actually initiated.
Regional Council as local authority
In addition, the regional association largely corresponds to a conventional district. There is disagreement, however, whether it can also be community association within the meaning of article 28, paragraph 2, sentence 2 of the Basic Law. Against this it is argued that the regional association has received by the Cooperation excessive bundkörperschaftliche elements. Then he would no longer qualify as a classic local authority and it would be a violation of the constitutionally enshrined rights institution objective guarantee.
Regional Assembly
(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Road
In the area of the regional association Saarbrücken begins
- Federal Highway 6 (of Paris and Metz ( France) Coming ) and in the direction of Mannheim
- A 1 in the direction of Trier,
- Also leads the A 623 from Saarbrücken to the north and there connects the northern areas of the city with the Association
- A 8 Luxembourg - Pirmasens.
Numerous federal and county roads open up beyond the area of the urban community. The most important are the
- B 40 Saarbrücken - St. Ingbert (Kaiser Street ),
- B41 towards Bad Kreuznach and
- B 51 via Saarlouis further north.
Worth mentioning is also the A 620 ( " tributary of the Saar with thirteen letters": The city highway ), the A 6 connects through the city land along the river Saar in the south east with the A8 in the southwest. Through yearly flooding of the Saar is regularly flooded, resulting in high level of congestion throughout the city.
Railway
Saarbrücken has long been the seat of a railway management ( EBD), which ranged from Bitburg in the north to Kirn in the northeast and on Kaiserslautern addition to the east.
In regional association area of Saarbrücken following routes run ( course book tracks KBS ) of Deutsche Bahn AG:
- KBS 670: Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern - Mannheim ( lines RE 11, RE 60, RB 68, RB 71)
- KBS 680: Saarbrücken - Idar -Oberstein - Mainz ( lines 3 RE, RB 73)
- KBS 681: Saarbrücken - Lebach - Jabach ( line RB 72)
- KBS 682: Saarbrücken - Forbach - Metz - Paris ( int KBS F6 ) ( line 18 RE, driven by SNCF )
- KBS 684: Saarbrücken - Sarreguemines - Strasbourg ( by SNCF trains, light rail traffic on the rail link through the Saarbahn )
- KBS 685: Saarbrücken - Trier ( lines RE 1, RE 11, RE 60, RB 71)
( see also transport in Saarbrücken)
Other public transport
The area of the Regional Association Saarland Saarbrücken is part of the transport system SaarVV.
Sparx in the capital and in the neighboring communities Kleinblittersdorf and key mountain trains and buses Saarbahn to well over 50 lines and the transport company Saar -Pfalz- bus, which also performs the bus service in the neighboring districts.
In the city Völklingen the lines are driven by the Stadtwerke Völklingen. There are also connecting lines in the City of Luxembourg, as well Forbach to Saint -Avold (France).
Airport
The Saarbrücken Airport in the district of Saarbrücken Ensheim is an international German commercial airport with international traffic and serves both scheduled flights as well as charter flights.
Shipping
The importance of the Saar as a traffic
Cities and Towns
Cities
Communities
(Population at 31 December 2012)