German district
The district (in German Regierungsbezirk ) is a territorial division of some Länder German.
Role and administration
The district is a territorial district, subdivision of a German Land ; it itself is subdivided in districts ( Landkreise ) and city-districts ( Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise ) and in communes. The administration of a district is entrusted to a president of the district ( Regierungspräsident ).Contrary to the districts, the city-districts and the communes, the districts do not have the statute of moral person of public law ( Gebietskörperschaft ). Always with the difference in these territorial divisions, the districts are not managed by people elected, but designated by the government of the State ( Landesregierung in Bavaria: Staatsregierung ) of this Land .
German districts
Nowadays, there are districts in the following Länder :
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Bade-Wurtemberg - 4 districts ( Regierungsbezirke ): Freiburg-in-Brisgau, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Tubingen;
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Bavaria - 7 districts ( Regierungen ): Low-Bavaria ( Niederbayern ), High-Bavaria ( Oberbayern ), Low-Franconie ( Unterfranken ), High-Franconie ( Oberfranken ), Average-Franconie ( Mittelfranken ), Haut-Palatinat ( Oberpfalz ), Souabe ( Schwaben ).
(There exist communal districts ( Bezirke , communal communities managed by elected people), they coïncidents with these territories and have the same names.)
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Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia - 5 districts ( Bezirksregierungen ): Arnsberg, Cologne, Detmold, Düsseldorf, Münster;
The Länder of the Rhineland-Palatinat (December 31st 1999), of Saxony-Anhalt (2003) and of Lower Saxony (December 31st 2004) dissolved their districts.
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