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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.

Cultural Monument: Research/Excavation - Permit


Excavations for cultural monuments, salvage of cultural monuments from bodies of water and earthworks at a place where cultural monuments are suspected in the ground require the approval of the competent authority.

Approval may be granted subject to conditions, e.g.

  • management of the action by an expert,
  • type of planning and execution,
  • Treatment, safeguarding and documentation of archaeological finds,
  • Coverage
  • final preparation of the excavation or discovery site.

Which documents are required?

  • informal application
  • the documents required for the assessment, e.g. site plan, cadastral map or base map with entries

What are the fees?

There are no fees.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

There are no deadlines to observe.

What else should I know?

Earthworks and construction works in which it is suspected that cultural monuments will be discovered require a permit.

Projects in excavation protection areas that may endanger hidden cultural monuments require the approval of the competent authority. As a rule, agricultural and forestry use does not require a permit.

Author

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Who should I contact?

The responsibility lies with the lower monument protection authority or the commissioner for the archaeological preservation of monuments in the district or municipality, which is responsible for the task of the lower building supervisory authority.

Responsible authorities


Landkreis Emsland - Fachbereich Bildung, Kultur und Sport
Address: Ordeniederung 1 , 49716 Meppen
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Postal address: Post Office Box 15 62 , 49705 Meppen
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Telephone: 05931 44-0
Fax: 05931 44-3621
Transport Connection:
Station Haltestelle Kreishaus
Bus: 993
Building Access
elevator available, wheelchair-accessible

Contact

Carina Fischer
Telephone: 05931 44-4041
Room:
41, Kreishaus II
responsible for:
Silke Surberg-Röhr
Telephone: 05931 44-5040
Room:
40, Kreishaus II
responsible for:

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