Translation of "Umlandgemeinden" in English

Discover the republic from all different sides in the eight surrounding communities.

In our deliberations, the issue of the relationship between the urban centres and the municipalities on the periphery plays an especially important role.

However, a large number of its inhabitants commutes to Freiburg or one of the surrounding villages for work.

More than 400 km of perfectly marked hiking trails stretch across the region of Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang and through various surrounding villages.

I should like to say, at this stage in the debate, that we must remain extremely vigilant and ensure, above all, that the implementation of the integrated approaches does not only affect the cities in the strictest sense of the word, but also the communities surrounding the cities.

I am anxious to point out that by ‘cities’ our Committee on Regional Development means not only cities or urban areas but also, as Mrs Krehl’s report emphasises several times, any territory that includes a city centre, outlying urban areas and all the rural areas that depend on the city, as the city depends on them.

On 1 January 1977, as part of Hesse's municipal reforms, Wetzlar was united with the neighbouring town of Gießen and fourteen outlying communities to form the city of Lahn.

However, individual sections on the periphery of the city, and in surrounding communities beyond the city limits, such as the former steam tramway lines to Mödling and Groß-Enzersdorf, were replaced by bus lines.

One of the reasons for this was a tendency that had been noted for people from Idar-Oberstein to move out of town to the surrounding municipalities, which were opening up extensive new building areas – among others Göttschied, Rötsweiler-Nockenthal and Kirschweiler – whereas within the town itself, given the problematic lie of the land, there were hardly any.

Through the integration of surrounding communities, the city was considerably enlarged, so that in 1974 it exceeded the 100,000-inhabitant limit and thus became a major city of Germany.

This enormous job surplus causes a correspondingly high rate of commuters from the surrounding communities of Linz, resulting in enormous traffic problems.

In 2000 they celebrated the centenary of the Innsbruck Mountain Railway was commemorated in Innsbruck and the surrounding area and, in 2004, it was followed by centenary celebrations for the Stubai Valley Railway.

The Grüner Ring Leipzig is a regional voluntary association of two districts, the city of Leipzig and 11 other surrounding communities. It was the ideal platform.

Wroclaw is attempting to re-build public transport as a powerful and attractive alternative to the car by creating a transport system alongside neighbouring communities and the Polish State Railways (PKP).

Interested parties will find the latest news from the region on the portal, including business location projects, construction projects and community activities as well as facts on Vienna Airport as the region's growth engine and its seven neighbouring communities.

After assessing the current situation, the conference focused primarily on municipal options for precautionary building land policy, especially in coordination between the core city and peripheral municipalities.

By integrating nine surrounding communities, the urban area of Münster is multiplied, with the number of inhabitants growing from 200,000 to 265,000.

The historical city of Lahr at the mouth of the Schutter valley consists of seven attractive surrounding communities unified since the Community Reform of 1972.

In the new research project “LebensWert”, ISOE – Institute for social-ecological research together with the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), the town of Eschwege, and the engineering office COOPERATIVE Infrastruktur und Umwelt is developing management approaches for small towns and their neighboring communities facing demographic changes.

Communities such as Eugendorf, Anthering, Elixhausen, Bergheim or Hallwang have grown tremendously since the 1960ies.

On 1 January 1977, as part of Hesse's municipal reforms, Wetzlar was united with the neighbouring town of Gießen and fourteen outlying communities to form the city of Lahn .

Furthermore, we found no evidence that the surrounding municipalities benefit from their proximity to core cities by increased efficiency.

The cycling ring encompasses a total of 135 km, with some track variations of up to 170 km, and traverses Munich districts and surrounding communities within a 10-25 km radius of Marienplatz.