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IMPORTANT: Select a location.To obtain application forms, location-specific information and contacts, select a town or zip code.

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Which place to enter?

The location is used to determine the responsible office for the selected administrative service. In most cases you can enter your place of residence to find the competent authority. However, there are also cases in which a different location must be specified. Here are some examples:

Birth certificateYou want to get married and need a birth certificate. You live in Hanover, but you were born in Celle. You must therefore state your place of birth, i.e. Celle.

Business registrationYou would like to register a business in Braunschweig. Your place of residence is Hanover. You must therefore state the location of your future business, i.e. Braunschweig.

Apply for a building permitYou would like to build a house in Wunstorf and therefore apply for a building permit. Her place of residence is currently Hanover. You must indicate the place where the house is to be built. In this case it is Wunstorf.

Burial place: Permit - to create/expand


The creation and expansion of a burial ground as well as the reoccupation of a closed burial ground is reserved for the cemetery owners.

The sponsors can commission (private) third parties to carry out the construction and operation of the cemetery.

Which documents are required?

Documents may be required. Please contact the competent authority.

What are the fees?

Fees may apply, please contact the competent authority.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Deadlines may have to be observed. Please contact the competent authority.

Appeal

An administrative court action for an obligation or an action for performance may be considered against the refusal of an assignment. In the case of a civil law structure, legal recourse to the ordinary courts is given.

What else should I know?

The permission for the further burial of corpses and urns provided for in the transitional provision of § 19 (1) of the Act on Mortuary, Funeral and Cemeteries (BestattG) applies only to private burial places that were already available on 01.01.2006. It is therefore not possible to create new private burial grounds.

Author

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Who should I contact?

The responsibility lies with the municipality, the church, the parish and the association of parishes as well as other religious communities and philosophical communities if they are corporations, institutions or foundations under public law.

Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)