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56 unusual facts about Municipalities of Germany


Altenhagen

Altenhagen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Basedow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Basedow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Blankenhof

Blankenhof is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Blankensee

Blankensee is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Delve

Delve is a municipality belonging to the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde ("collective municipality") Eider in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany.

Districts of Prussia

They were established in the course of the Stein-Hardenberg Reforms from 1815 to 1818 at an intermediate level, between the higher provinces and the government districts (Regierungsbezirke), and the lower municipal governments (Gemeinden).

Dratow-Schloen

Dratow-Schloen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Genzkow

Genzkow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Gielow

Gielow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Gotthun

Gotthun is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Grabowhöfe

Grabowhöfe is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Grammentin

Grammentin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Grischow

Grischow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Groß Miltzow

Groß Miltzow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Groß Nemerow

Groß Nemerow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Groß Teetzleben

Groß Teetzleben is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Große Kreisstadt

In some federal states the term is used as a special legal status for a district–affiliated town—as distinct from an independent city—with additional competences in comparison with other municipalities of the district.

Gültz

Gültz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Gülzow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Gülzow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Hohen Wangelin

Hohen Wangelin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Holldorf

Holldorf is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Jürgenstorf

Jürgenstorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Kargow

Kargow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Kieve, Müritz

Kieve is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Klocksin

Klocksin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Kriesow

Kriesow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Kublank

Kublank is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Lärz

Lärz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Legal status of Germany

While municipal administrations (Gemeinden) had continued operating nearly without any interruption, and by 1946 local elections took place in all occupational zones, Germany's federal states located within the occupational zones of the western allies were once again assigned state governments between May 1945 and July 1947.

Leizen

Leizen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Ludorf

Ludorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Massow

Massow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Municipalities of Germany

With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the most populated municipality of Germany is the city of Berlin; and the least populated is Wiedenborstel (8 inhabitants in 2010), in Schleswig-Holstein.

Neetzka

Neetzka is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Neuleiningen Castle

Neuleiningen Castle is a castle ruin on the eastern outskirts of the Palatinate Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany in the municipality of Neuleiningen in the Bad Dürkheim district.

Neverin

Neverin is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Oybin

Oybin is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany, located very close to the border of the Czech Republic.

Petersdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Petersdorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Pragsdorf

Pragsdorf is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Ritzerow

Ritzerow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Schwarz, Germany

Schwarz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Siedenbollentin

Siedenbollentin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Silz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Silz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Staven

Staven is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Torgelow am See

Torgelow am See is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Tützpatz

Tützpatz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Userin

Userin is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Varchentin

Varchentin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Vipperow

Vipperow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Voigtsdorf

Voigtsdorf is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Vollrathsruhe

Vollrathsruhe is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Walow

Walow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Wildberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Wildberg is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Wokuhl-Dabelow

Wokuhl-Dabelow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Wredenhagen

Wredenhagen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Zettemin

Zettemin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.


Bandelin

Bandelin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, consisting of the villages Kuntzow, Schmoldow, Vargatz, and Bandelin.

Bezirk

In the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate any municipality is authorized to implement Ortsbezirke with own advisory councils and local administrators.

Bröbberow

Bröbberow is a municipality in the district of Rostock, in Mecklenburg, Germany, consisting of the three villages Bröbberow, Klein Grenz and Groß Grenz.

Carwitzer See

Carwitzer See is a lake at Carwitz in the municipality Feldberger Seenlandschaft in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Flörsheim-Dalsheim

Flörsheim-Dalsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Galenbeck

Galenbeck is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Glienke

Glienke is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Gnevkow

Gnevkow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Grapzow

Grapzow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Helpt

Helpt is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Jabel

Jabel is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Klein Vielen

Klein Vielen is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Lindetal

Lindetal is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Melz

Melz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Moltzow

Moltzow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Röckwitz

Röckwitz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Rosenow

Rosenow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Schönhausen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Schönhausen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Siedenbrünzow

Siedenbrünzow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Stuer

Stuer is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Taxation in Germany

Taxes in Germany—as it is a federal republic—are levied by the federal government (Bund), the states (Länder) as well as the municipalities (Städte/Gemeinden).

Werder, Demmin

Werder is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Zirzow

Zirzow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Zislow

Zislow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.