Giessen (region)

  • Germany land Hessen Region of Giessen

The Giessen Region is one of the three administrative regions in Hesse and is located in the center of the country. He established in 1981 the youngest and smallest area of ​​Hessian government district.

Administrative divisions

The Region of Giessen is unincorporated unincorporated. The authority of the government district, the Regional Council of casting, is the general state administration authority of the State of Hesse in middle school ( § 1 para 1 Intermediate Act). The county is divided into five counties and three special cities ( cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, where tasks of the circle for their area were transferred to the perception by municipal authorities ):

Counties

For Giessen Region include the Lahn- Dill-Kreis, the Landkreis Giessen, the Limburg- Weilburg, the Marburg- Biedenkopf and the Vogelsberg.

Cities and Towns

The top cities of Giessen, Marburg, and Wetzlar, the special status towns in the district of Gießen, in total include 101 cities and towns to the governmental district.

History

The Giessen Region was established on 1 January 1981 by the Hessian state government under Prime Minister Holger Börner (SPD ) (Law on the reorganization of administrative districts and the regional planning of 15 October 1980). He is next to Darmstadt and Kassel, the third government district in Hesse. From 1945 to 1968, there was in Hessen ever three administrative districts (Darmstadt, Kassel and Wiesbaden). 1968, the administrative district of Wiesbaden, however, was dissolved and its territory assigned to the Region of Darmstadt.

In the course of district reform, which was completed in 1979, the structure of public safety agencies were reorganized and created in 1981 as the Region of Giessen. To him, the counties casting, Lahn -Dill, Limburg -Weilburg, Marburg -Biedenkopf and Vogelsberg have been assigned. Except for the county of Marburg-Biedenkopf (formerly Region of Kassel ) were among those previously to Darmstadt Region.

Authority and responsibilities

The managing authority of the governmental district is the regional council of Giessen. It is a central instance and bundling authority between the states of Hesse and local authorities. As such, the regional council takes over the responsibilities of almost all departments of the state administration bundled true. You stand in front of the appointed by the State Government Government President. It is based in central casting in the former labor and land registry office at the Landgraf -Philipp Square. Twelve employees were in 1981 responsible for the development, currently working in six departments 800 employees, including about 150 in Wetzlar (complete Section V, Rural Area ). Due to the operation safe future of the Hessian state government, the regional council had to save up to 2008 about 24 percent of these bodies.

The duties of the Regional Council are many and include the following areas:

  • Affairs
  • Social
  • Regional Planning
  • Environment
  • Rural
  • Since 2002: Supply

Regional Planning and Regional Assembly Mittelhessen

As Upper State Planning Authority in accordance with state planning law, the regional council shall provide the parent, through local and summary plan for the region of Central Hesse. Support of regional planning is the Regional Council of Central Hesse. It currently consists of 31 members who are elected by the district assemblies and meetings of the city council districts Giessen, Lahn -Dill, Limburg -Weilburg, Marburg -Biedenkopf and Vogelsberg and the cities of Gießen, Marburg and Wetzlar. The Regional Assembly shall adopt the regional plan and deviations from it, it also takes a position on prohibitions space of irregular plans and measures to regional planning process, the National Development Plan to spatially relevant sectoral plans and other land use planning issues in the region.

Government President

Renaming

The District President Lars Witteck (CDU ) in 2010 requested the renaming of the district of Gießen in the region of Middle Hesse, because thereby the regional consciousness of citizens would be strengthened. Witteck said that the renaming could be a nice gift to mark the 30th anniversary in 2011. On 30 November 2010 it was announced that the Hessian Ministry of the Interior has refused for reasons of consistency with the other government districts of the application.

Historical Sources

The written tradition of the Regional Council keeps pouring on the Hessian State Archive Marburg.

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