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Your selected location: Emsland

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.

Operation Prostitution Business Permit


A prostitution business is carried on by any person who offers services in connection with the provision of sexual services by at least one other person on a professional basis or provides premises for this purpose by:

  1. operates a place of prostitution,
  2. provides a prostitution vehicle,
  3. organises or conducts a prostitution event, or
  4. operates a prostitution brokerage.

Anyone wishing to operate a prostitution business requires the permission of the competent authority.

Which documents are required?

  • Operating concept
  • Other documents and information required to prove that the permit requirements are met
  • in the case of a natural person:
    • Name
    • date of birth and
    • Address of the person for whom the permit is requested
  • in the case of a legal person or association of persons
    • name of the company,
    • Address
    • number of the register sheet in the commercial register and
    • Registered office of the company.

What are the fees?

Depending on the time spent, at least 300,00 Euro.

Process flow

Permission must be applied for at the competent authority.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

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

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Who should I contact?

The responsibility lies with the districts and independent cities in whose district the activity is to be carried out.

This procedure can also be carried out through a "Point of Single Contact". The "Point of Single Contact" is a special service offered by municipalities and the state for service providers.

Find your Point of Single Contact in the Service Provider Portal Lower Saxony

Responsible authorities


Landkreis Emsland - Fachbereich Sicherheit und Ordnung
Address: Ordeniederung 1 , 49716 Meppen
Timetable
Postal address: Post Office Box 15 62 , 49705 Meppen
Timetable
Telephone: 05931 44-0
Fax: 05931 44-3621
Transport Connection:
Station Haltestelle Kreishaus
Bus: 993
Building Access
elevator available, wheelchair-accessible
Postal address: Post Office Box 15 62, 49705 Meppen
Address: Ordeniederung 1, 49716 Meppen
Transport Connection:
Station Haltestelle Kreishaus
Bus: 993
Building Access
elevator available, wheelchair-accessible
Address: Friedrichswall 1, 30159 Hannover
Postal address: Post Office Box 1 01, 30001 Hannover
Telephone: 0511 120-5521

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