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Gemeinde (; plural: Gemeinden) is a German word translating to "community", "town", "parish", or "municipality". Gemeinde may refer to: * An administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city: ** Gemeinde (Austria) ** Gemeinde (Germany) ** Gemeinde (South Tyrol) ** Gemeinde (Switzerland) Municipalities (german: Gemeinden, ' or '; french: communes; it , comuni; rm, vischnancas) are the lowest level of administrative division in Switzerland. Each municipality is part of one of the Swiss cantons, which form the Swiss Confederat ... * Gemeinde (theology), a Christian or Jewish congregation See also * Gemeente, in the Netherlands * Gmina, in Poland {{disambiguation ...
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Gemeinde (Austria)
In the Republic of Austria, the municipality ( de , Gemeinde, sometimes also ) is the administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city. The municipality has corporate status and local self-government on the basis of parliamentary-style representative democracy: a municipal council () elected through a form of party-list system enacts municipal laws, a municipal executive board () and a mayor (, fem. ) appointed by the council are in charge of municipal administration. Austria is currently (January 1, 2020) partitioned into 2,095 municipalities, ranging in population from about fifty (the village of Gramais in Tyrol) to almost two million (the city of Vienna). There is no unincorporated territory in Austria. Basics The existence of municipalities and their role as carriers of the right to self-administration are guaranteed by the Austrian constitution ( B-VG Art. 116 (1)). The constitution means for municipalities to be autonomous () in any matter that ...
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Gemeinde (Germany)
MunicipalitiesCountry Compendium. A companion to the English Style Guide
European Commission, May 2021, pages 58–59.
(german: Gemeinden, singular ) are the lowest level of official territorial division in . This can be the second, third, fourth or fifth level of territorial division, depending on the status of the municipality and the '' Land'' (federal state) it is part of. The city-states Berlin and Hamburg are second-l ...
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Gemeinde (South Tyrol)
The following is a list of municipalities (/) of the autonomous province of South Tyrol, Italy. South Tyrol is divided into 116 administrative subdivisions. Both German and Italian are official languages in this province. Some municipalities have a third official language, Ladin. The capital of the province is in bold. See also * List of municipalities of Italy * Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige * Municipalities of Trentino The list shows the municipalities (''comuni'') of the autonomous province of Trento, Italy. Trentino is divided into 176 administrative subdivisions (''Comuni/ Gemeinden''). Some municipalities have a second official language such as German (Cimbri ... {{italy-stub ...
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Gemeinde (Switzerland)
Municipalities (german: Gemeinden, ' or '; french: communes; it , comuni; rm, vischnancas) are the lowest level of administrative division in Switzerland. Each municipality is part of one of the Swiss cantons, which form the Swiss Confederation. In most cantons, municipalities are also part of districts or other sub-cantonal administrative divisions. There are 2,136 municipalities . Their populations range between several hundred thousand (Zürich), and a few dozen people (Kammersrohr, Bister), and their territory between 0.32 km² (Rivaz) and 439 km² (Scuol). History The beginnings of the modern municipality system date back to the Helvetic Republic. Under the Old Swiss Confederacy, citizenship was granted by each town and village to only residents. These citizens enjoyed access to community property and in some cases additional protection under the law. Additionally, the urban towns and the rural villages had differing rights and laws. The creation of a uniform Swiss c ...
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Gemeinde (theology)
In theological usage, the German word Gemeinde (; plural: Gemeinden) refers to a group of people attached to a specific house of worship, usually a church building or a synagogue. The word can be used to mean a parish assembly, in the sense of a group of people physically present for a service or other function, or be used in the sense of the Greek term , a general fellowship of believers. In these senses, the word has no direct English equivalent except among Mormons, who call it a ward. Among the Amish The Amish (; pdc, Amisch; german: link=no, Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins. They are closely related to Mennonite churches ..., the word can also refer to the Amish community, interpreted as a corporate body politic, as a whole. In terms of Jewish communities, the word can refer to the community level of Jewish life, as established in pre-World War II G ...
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Gemeente
As of 24 March 2022, there are 344 municipalities ( nl, gemeenten) and three special municipalities () in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public bodies (), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the central government and they are ruled by a municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in the mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical purposes. These municipalities come in a wide range of sizes, Westervoort is the smallest with a land area of and Súdwest-Fryslân the largest with a land area of . Schiermonnikoog is both the least popul ...
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