Schladen-Werla

Schladen-Werla
Schladen-Werla
Municipality
	Town hall in Schladen
	Coat of arms
	Location of Schladen-Werla within Wolfenbüttel district
	Schladen-Werla Schladen-Werla
	Coordinates: 52°02′N 10°34′E / 52.033°N 10.567°E / 52.033; 10.567
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Wolfenbüttel
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Andreas Memmert (Ind.)
Area
• Total	73.85 km2 (28.51 sq mi)
Elevation	97 m (318 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	8,666
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	38315
Dialling codes	05334, 05335, 05339
Vehicle registration	WF
Website	www.schladen-werla.de

Schladen-Werla is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was formed on 1 November 2013, when the municipalities of the former Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Schladen: Gielde, the town of Hornburg, Schladen proper, and Werlaburgdorf were merged.

Geography

The municipal area is located in the northern foothills of the Harz mountain range, stretching along the Oker river. It borders on the Lower Saxon district of Goslar in the southwest and on the state of Saxony-Anhalt (at the former inner German border) in the southeast.

The Schladen-Werla municipality comprises the localities of Beuchte, Gielde, Hornburg, Isingerode, Schladen, Wehre, and Werlaburgdorf. The administrative seat is at Schladen.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2016 local elections:

Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 12
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): 7
Alliance 90/The Greens: 2
Free Voters: 1

Transport

Schladen station is a stop on the Brunswick–Bad Harzburg railway line, served by regional trains. The municipality has access to the Bundesautobahn 395 motorway from Brunswick to Goslar-Vienenburg at the Schladen-Nord and Schladen-Süd junctions.

References

^ "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.

External links

Municipal website (in German)

[mayor-1] "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.

[2] "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.