Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region
The European Metropolitan Region Bremen / Oldenburg in the north- west is one of currently eleven metropolitan regions in Germany. It includes the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven and parts of Lower Saxony.
History
Due to the international connection through multiple ports and airports, the versatile industries and research institutions (universities, colleges ) and the sound -municipal cooperation has been recognized, the region of the German Conference of Ministers for Spatial Planning ( MKRO ) on 28 April 2005 as a European metropolitan region. Previously, a joint resolution was adopted within a few weeks of regional bodies and institutions, which demanded recognition as a European metropolitan region. This was solemnly signed in Jever on 12 April 2005. The district of Osnabrück joined the Metropolitan Region on 1 July 2010. In the region of about 2.72 million inhabitants live and covers an area of 13,749 km ². In the North West live as much as 3.8 million inhabitants.
A historical precursor, the metropolitan area in the department of Bouches-du- Weser from the time of the Napoleonic occupation, both of which are congruent to a large extent.
Objectives
The objectives of the Metropolitan Region Bremen -Oldenburg in the Northwest include:
Expansion
Despite the name, the region not only refers to the two largest cities of Bremen and Oldenburg, but also to other districts and cities, so that there is no sharp spatial boundary. The basis is the area of the Regional Working Group (RAG ) Bremen / Lower Saxony and the Oldenburg region:
Independent Cities
- Bremen ( through the extensive overlap of state and municipal authorities with urban districts in area comparable countries )
- Bremerhaven
- Delmenhorst
- Oldenburg
- Wilhelmshaven
Counties
- Ammerland based in Westerstede
- Cloppenburg based in Cloppenburg
- Cuxhaven is headquartered in Cuxhaven (overlapping with the Hamburg Metropolitan Region )
- Diepholz based in Diepholz
- Friesland based in Jever
- Oldenburg based in Wildeshausen
- Osnabrück Osnabrück-based
- Easter wood based in Osterholz- Beck
- Vechta based in Vechta
- Verden based in Verden ( Aller)
- Wesermarsch based in Brake ( Weser)
Demarcation to neighboring metropolitan regions and the Euregio
The affiliation of a district to several metropolitan areas is often perceived as strange. Nevertheless, the district of Cuxhaven, both the Metropolitan Region Bremen / Oldenburg and Hamburg Metropolitan Region has connected. The district of Rotenburg ( Wümme) is the metropolitan region of Hamburg joined, although he actually is rather in a central position between Hamburg and Bremen. An unambiguous assignment of the rural area into one of the two metropolitan areas is not possible without further notice.
Also the Nienburg, who belongs to the metropolitan region Hannover -Braunschweig- Göttingen -Wolfsburg, the metropolitan area of Bremen / Oldenburg could also connect since the Middle Weser region, located in the middle Nienburg, protrudes into the Diepholz, which is part of the Metropolitan Region Bremen -Oldenburg, and since the Nienburg above Bremen is located on the River Weser between Hannover and Bremen.
The district of Osnabrück is the history of the Euregio, which was founded in 1958 as the first European region whose member. Traditionally, Osnabrück with Westphalia feel connected and have long been in the direction of Münster ( Westphalia), about the Euregio also in the direction of Twente ( Netherlands) oriented. By connecting to the Metropolitan Region Bremen / Oldenburg, the Osnabrück area keeps the option open at the same time maintain that emerged in the period of existence of the Lower Saxony region of Weser -Ems relations in the north.
Infrastructure
Although the territory of the metropolitan area is not congruent with the traffic group Bremen / Lower Saxony, but this corresponds geographically into disrepair.