4-650: Wonnegau is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Alzey-Worms , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . It takes its name from the larger historical area Wonnegau, which covers the southern part of Rhenish Hesse . The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Osthofen . The Verbandsgemeinde Wonnegau consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"): 49°42′N 8°15′E / 49.70°N 8.25°E / 49.70; 8.25 This Alzey-Worms location article
8-614: A larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy. The 11 districts of Saxony-Anhalt are divided into Verwaltungsgemeinschaften and, since 1 July 2009 also Verbandsgemeinden . Since the January 2010 government reform, there are 18 Verbandsgemeinden in Saxony-Anhalt. Other German states have similar administrative units: This Germany -related article
12-502: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde ( German pronunciation: [fɛɐ̯ˈbantsɡəˌmaɪndə] ; plural Verbandsgemeinden ) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt . A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate
16-535: Is divided into 163 Verbandsgemeinden , which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 districts of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde ) which comprise single settlements. Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit was Amt . Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from
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