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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.

School travel costs


Pupil transport is the transport of pupils on their way to school. There is only a right to school transport or reimbursement of costs for certain groups of pupils, in principle the legal guardians have to bear the costs.

An obligation to transport or a claim for reimbursement is limited to the group of persons listed in the law, i.e. children who attend a school kindergarten or who take part in special language support measures as well as pupils in grades 1 to 10 of general education schools and 11th and 12th grades of schools for pupils with intellectual disabilities, Basic vocational training year, vocational preparation year, class 1 of vocational schools without secondary school leaving certificate.

The districts and independent cities, as providers of school transport, have to transport the persons concerned living in their area to school under reasonable conditions or to reimburse them or their legal guardians for the necessary expenses for the way to school.

In principle, the obligation to transport or reimburse only applies to the way to the next school of the chosen type of school.

The providers of school transport are responsible for determining the manner in which they comply with this transport or reimbursement obligation. In doing so, they can specify both the mode of transport (school buses, public transport) and the minimum distance between home and school from which the transport or reimbursement obligation exists. This is used in different ways; As a rule, the distances are set between about 2 and 5 km, depending on age and local conditions.

Who should I contact?

District or independent city

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