VERBANDSGEMEINDE

A 'Verbandsgemeinde' (plural 'Verbandsgemeinden') is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate. There are 163 Verbandsgemeinden, which are grouped into the 24 districts and subdivided into nearly 2200 'Ortsgemeinden'.
Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name of the administrative units was ''Amt''. Most of the functions of municipal government for several villages are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central village among the group, while the individual villages (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy.

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Districts

See also

Examples

Districts

The 24 districts:

# Ahrweiler # Altenkirchen # Alzey-Worms # Bad Dürkheim # Bad Kreuznach # Bernkastel-Wittlich # Birkenfeld # Bitburg-Prüm

Cochem-Zell Daun Donnersbergkreis Germersheim Kaiserslautern Kusel Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Mainz-Bingen

Mayen-Koblenz Neuwied Rhein-Hunsrück Rhein-Lahn Südliche Weinstraße Südwestpfalz Trier-Saarburg Westerwaldkreis

See also

Other German states have similar administrative units:

★ Amt

★ Samtgemeinde

★ Verwaltungsgemeinschaft

Examples

★ Loreley (municipality)

★ Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Kues