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German term or phrase:place designations
I have a large document concerning archaeology. It refers to a wide variety of places, which it precisely defines, using the terms:
Land
Regierungsbezirk
Bezirk
Stadt
Kreis
Stadtteil, Ortsteil
Gemeinde
E.g. "Land Baden-Württemberg, Regierungsbezirke Karlsruhe"
"Stadt Ellwangen, Ortsteil Pfahlheim-Halheim
Ostalbkreis"
"Gemeinde Arzbach
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis"
I could translate at least half of these with "District", but that doesn´t seem entirely satisfactory. For the Länder, I looked at their webpages and have "State of Baden-Württemberg" etc., except Bayern gives itself as "Free State of Bavaria". "Stadt" I thought might be "city". B-W also says it "is divided up into 35 rural and 9 urban districts. There are a total of 1,111 local authorities, 81 of them large-scale municipalities." The rural and urban districts are Landkreise and Stadtkreise, so that seems to be "district used up for "Kreis", while the local authorities are Gemeinden. Assuming all of these, I am left with:
Regierungsbezirk
Bezirk
Stadtteil, Ortsteil
Regierungsbezirk could well be administrative region, but I can´t see Bezirk as region, so that is a problem. And what are the Teile if they are not districts?
Explanation: You can add some footnotes with explanations to each of them (e. g. Regierungsbezirk = primary administrative division of a Bundesland).
Bezirk = district (footnote: Bezirk of a city is district/of a Bundesland = region)
Stadtteil = municipal or town district/~ area/~ part
Ortsteil = (mustn' be of a town, can also be the of a bigger village)
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For Ortsteil: district/area/part of a village
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Note for Regierungsbezirk: each Bundesland is divided into so-called *Regierungsbezirke*, which are made up of several towns and villages. Towns and villages in their area make up so-called Landkreise (administrative districts)
Explanation: You can add some footnotes with explanations to each of them (e. g. Regierungsbezirk = primary administrative division of a Bundesland).
Bezirk = district (footnote: Bezirk of a city is district/of a Bundesland = region)
Stadtteil = municipal or town district/~ area/~ part
Ortsteil = (mustn' be of a town, can also be the of a bigger village)
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-12-07 08:30:05 (GMT) --------------------------------------------------
For Ortsteil: district/area/part of a village
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-12-07 08:39:31 (GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Note for Regierungsbezirk: each Bundesland is divided into so-called *Regierungsbezirke*, which are made up of several towns and villages. Towns and villages in their area make up so-called Landkreise (administrative districts)
Christian Popescu Germany Specializes in field Native speaker of: German, Romanian PRO pts in category: 4
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according to Bundestag Glossar=
Explanation: Land=Land
Regierungsbezirk=Administrative Region
Kreis=County
Stadtteil=District/burrough
Ortsteil=sub-district/area, e.g. Lichterfelde area of Steglitz district
Gemeinde=municipality/commune/local community/parish/local authority
Jonathan MacKerron Germany Works in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 65
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