Greater is the colloquial name for a municipality, which is formed in the context of a regional reorganization from several independent municipalities. Usually it concerns municipalities with a large surface, why in many places the designation "“greater"” was in-patriated.

Occasionally also terms emerge like "“retort municipality"” or "“art municipality"”, in particular if the summary of several municipalities of the population is undesired and is felt as against natural. Occasionally it came also again to the dissolution of such municipalities, approximately with the city Lahn (/Wetzlar pour among other things), which after violent protests of the population (particularly the Wetzlarer) 1979 was again waived.

The greaters have a uniform local administration just like individual municipalities and - line (local council and mayor). The greater is legal successor of their before times independent municipalities and occurs with the union in all rights and obligations of the past municipalities. In Germany it concerns legally with "“greaters"” unit municipalities.

In special cases greaters also the right were awarded to be able to call itself "“city"”. This depends and been based often on the respective municipal constitution or the Gemeindeordnung of the country on existing municipal rights one or several past municipalities. But also new greaters, whose local parts did not possess municipal rights, can be raised to "“cities"” (e.g. city Rheinstetten in Baden-Wuerttemberg).

Also in Austria there is the form of the greaters, which consist of individual Katastralgemeinden. Partially municipalities already grown together can be for many years. The last municipality reforms were in Austria usually into the 1970er-Jahren. Some these also small municipalities, for example Stratzing and Lengenfeld were divided also again apart into Lower Austria.

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