The European Metropolregion Hamburg is one of eleven Metropolregionen in Germany. It extends over Hamburg as well as over parts of the Lands of the Federal Republic Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony.

Emergence and expansion

The Metropolregion Hamburg covers the free one and Hanseatic city Hamburg, the districts of Lower Saxony Cuxhaven, Harburg, Dannenberg, Lueneburg, red castle, Soltau Fallingbostel, Stade and Uelzen and the schleswig holsteinischen circles duchy Lauenburg, Segeberg, stone castle, Stormarn, Pinneberg and Dithmar. Altogether the Metropolregion thereby covers about 4 million inhabitant.

The senate of the free ones and Hanseatic city Hamburg, which federal state government of Lower Saxony and the federal state government of Schleswig-Holstein have 1991 decided to strengthen their regional-political co-operation in the region Hamburg. In view of the high growth pressure at the beginning of the nineties a new, long-term basis for co-operation should be created. The first step was the development frontiers of a spreading regional development concept (REK).

There is the prognosis that the regions of Europe will play a larger role. Therefore the discussion agitates whether individual Lands of the Federal Republic should close better to a north state together. Equally as preliminary stage the north Germans of countries are endeavored to improve their co-operation.

Demarcation and co-operation of and with neighbours

Basis of the co-operation of the three Lands of the Federal Republic under participation of the circles and municipalities is the regional development concept of the Metropolregion Hamburg (1996/Fortschreibung 2001). 1997 was combined the two in the middle of the 1950er years created common regional plannings Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg/Lower Saxony into the common regional planning Metropolregion Hamburg. Their committees are the planning advice, the Regionalkonferenz, the steering committee and the two promotion committees Hamburg/Lower Saxony and Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (common promotion funds). Subsidiary organizations are the regional working groups of the of Lower Saxony and the schleswig holsteinischen circles (working group of the circles of edge of Hamburg) as well as the association local recreation in the surrounding countryside Hamburg. Also into the neighboring countries handing the Hamburg traffic group with its Metropolcard is a development of transnational co-operation in the Metropolregion.

The Hanseatic city Luebeck and the district Ludwig desire (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) are since 2003 co-operation partners of the Metropolregion Hamburg.

The Metropolregion Hamburg belonged to the first sieved European Metropolregionen in Germany, which were defined on federal level due to their prehistory. (further Metropolregionen is Berlin/Brandenburg, Munich, Nuremberg, the Rhine Main area, Rhine Ruhr, Stuttgart and the Saxonia triangle). Since 2005 of Hamburg is hanseatische sister city Bremen center of the Metropolregion Bremen/Oldenburg. South Hamburg developed 2005 the Metropolregion Hanover Braunschweig Goettingen. East the Metropolregion Berlin/Brandenburg lies.

Over the bird airline and Luebeck like the Scandinavia dock, insists a close relationship with the neighbouring a transnational European Metropolregion on this traffic axle consisting of the regions Copenhagen and which were initiated by the building of the By the building of planned firm Fehmarnbelt traversing the future options of the Metropolregion Hamburg would still improve.

Demarcation to the Metropolregion Bremen/Oldenburg

In Lower Saxony clear allocations smear in border regions.

Demarcation to Luebeck

Although Luebeck is because of one of the main traffic axles of the Metropolregion, up-to-date the political discussion is intensified around the question of the membership of Luebeck in the Metropolregion. The formal admission of Luebeck fails at present on the one hand because of the negative attitude of the districts lying between Hamburg and Luebeck and the negative vote of the Schleswig Holsteini federal state government in Kiel, which fears a north south splitting of the country together with the core region in case of intensified co-operation between Hamburg and Luebeck. Against the political explanations in the election of the federal parliament fight thereby the upper center is to be held out also in the dye up to 280.000 inhabitants officially from the Metropolregion. Beside "„"“exists therefore obviously also an actual Metropolregion approved. Thus the area planning-political beginning of the European Metropolregionen is abandoned and the beginning from the space planning ad absurdum led in favor of strong economic considerations and self-interests of Kiel. Kieler doubt against Metropolregion with Luebeck. The world, 3 June 2005Dieser interest-political beginning becomes particularly clearly, end 2005 the northern part Dithmarschens admission found into the Metropolregion, the surrounding countryside circles of Luebeck however a central administrative body without Luebeck plans, which is to be reduced and isolated with it expressis to on its city. In the final result this attitude means the consistent renouncement of space planning at the main traffic axle of Hamburg over the traffic junction Luebeck and the Fehmarnbeltregion as European region to Scandinavia, which would be actually to be beplanen according to the theory as point-axial system and in practice regarding the planned Fehmarnbeltquerung consistently. This in particular before the background of the infrastructural effects of the new motorway interchange of A1 and A20 connected with often unloved, but rising airport Luebeck, which had as only in Northern Germany a direct railway connection, if not the German course had sold its station some years ago at the airport area as house. With this political beginning also the between the two largest cities of the actual Metropolregion from that Hamburg traffic group one expenditure-borders, although the carrier enterprises of the HVV are involved as partners already long vorrausschauend in city traffic Luebeck and the bespielsweise railway connection Hamburg main station - Luebeck main station the highest user frequency in Schleswig-Holstein exhibits. A similar Ausgrenzung from the Hamburg traffic group and from the Metropolregion Hamburg concerns also the circle-free city new cathedral, which thinks however about the connection to the circle Segeberg, with which however the core region would be broken open.

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