Ahlden is a municipality in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is situated on the river Aller , approx. 15 km southwest of Bad Fallingbostel , and 30 km southeast of Verden .
6-659: Ahlden is located in the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") of Ahlden . Napoleonic wars officer Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Ompteda , a Colonel in the British army's Kings German Legion who died in action at the Battle of Waterloo was from Ahlden. This Heidekreis location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Samtgemeinde A Samtgemeinde ( German pronunciation: ['zamtgəmaɪndə] ; plural: Samtgemeinden )
12-681: Is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony , Germany . Samtgemeinden are local government associations of municipalities , equivalent to the Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , and Brandenburg , and the Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate . A Samtgemeinde is a government body composed of a collective association of gemeinden ( municipalities ),
18-527: Is hardly possible. The term Sammtgemeinden (at that time written with double m) was originally used for low-level administrative units in Prussia during a short-lived reform that saw the reorganization of parishes between 1850 and 1853. Samtgemeinden have three organs: The Samtgemeinde committee consists of the Samtgemeinde mayor (the chairman of the committee), and according to size of
24-629: The lowest level of official territorial division in Germany. Samtgemeinden were introduced in Lower Saxony on 4 March 1955 upon the adoption of the Lower Saxony Municipal Code ( Niedersächsische Gemeindeordnung ), which was based on British administrative structures at the time. According to §71 paragraph 1 Lower Saxony law on local government, a Samtgemeinde should have at least 7,000 inhabitants. Approximately 80% of
30-542: The member municipalities, for instance, tourism . The term Samtgemeinde (plural: Samtgemeinden ) is a neologism consisting of the German adjectives gesamt (whole, entire, all, complete, total, aggregate, collective, overall, general, joint, united) or zusammen (together, jointly) and the noun Gemeinde (municipality). Samtgemeinde can be translated into English as "joint municipal association" or "collective municipal association" but one-to-one translation
36-512: The municipalities in Lower Saxony have united to Samtgemeinden . The Samtgemeinde executes many local government administrative duties for its member municipalities, including land use planning , wastewater disposal, social security , organisation of cemeteries and fire stations , sponsorship of elementary schools , the construction of local connecting roads, equipment and entertainment of libraries , sports sites and other public utilities . Samtgemeinden can take over other tasks of
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