The Regionalverband Saarbrücken is a Kommunalverband besonderer Art , an integration of a district ( Kreis ) and a district-free town. It is located in the south of the Saarland , Germany . Neighboring districts are Saarlouis , Neunkirchen , Saar-Pfalz , and Forbach-Boulay-Moselle and Sarreguemines in the French département Moselle .
6-459: The district Saarbrücken was originally created in 1816. In 1974, the district and the district-free city Saarbrücken were merged, and the new administrative body was named Stadtverband Saarbrücken . Although it's not a district like others, most of its administrative tasks are the same as those of a district. On November 21, 2007, the governing majority of the CDU in the parliament of Saarland passed
12-624: A law which transformed the Stadtverband Saarbrücken into the Regionalverband Saarbrücken on January 1, 2008. The most striking change by this transformation was the introduction of the Kooperationsrat , a council of officials of the towns and municipalities which exercises some of the powers of Municipal corporation alongside the district council ( Regionalversammlung , the local equivalent of
18-502: The Kreistag ). As the directly elected Regionalversammlung represents the population, while the members of the Kooperationsrat are picked by the towns or municipalities which they represent, there is a debate whether the competences of the not-directly-elected Kooperationsrat infringe on the constitutional right of the directly elected Regionalversammlung to exert all powers of Municipal corporation. The river Saar flows through
24-525: The district council Regionalversammlung and the additional council Kooperationsrat , which is mainly composed of officials of the towns and municipalities. On January 1, 2008, Ulf Huppert ( FDP ) became Beauftragter für das Amt des Regionalverbandsdirektors , temporarily acting as Regionalverbandsdirektor. The first ever election of the Regionalverbandsdirektor was held on June 7, 2009. As no candidate gained an absolute majority in
30-578: The district, through the city Saarbrücken in the center of the district. The original district had no coat of arms, the Regionalverband uses a coat derived from the one of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken. The silver lion is taken from the County of Saarbrücken, the golden lion is the lion of Nassau . The bodies of the district Regionalverband are the administrator Regionalverbandsdirektor ,
36-489: The first round, run-off elections were held On June 21, 2009, which were won by Peter Gillo ( SPD ) with 60.22%, with Rainer Grün ( CDU ) taking 39.78% of the votes. Gillo beat Grün in all towns and municipalities except Püttlingen. The turnout rate of the run-off elections was just 21.2%. (Result of the elections of 2014) Saarbrücken is a fellow member of the Eurodistrict SaarMoselle . Saarbrücken has
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