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Your selected location: Twist (497...)

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.

Keeping of farm animals - display

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You must notify the competent authority of the keeping of farm animals. This concerns the following animal species:

  • Cattle
  • Pigs
  • Sheep
  • Goats
  • Solidungulate
  • Chickens
  • Ducks
  • Geese
  • Pheasants
  • Guinea fowl
  • Partridges
  • Doves
  • Turkeys
  • Quails
  • Ratites
  • Game enclosures
  • Camelides
  • Other cloven-hoofed animals
  • Fish in aquaculture establishments
  • Bees

After notification, your company will receive a registration number.

Who should I contact?

The responsibility lies with the district and the district-free city.

Responsible authorities

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Einheitsgemeinde Twist - Ordnungswesen
Address: Overbergstraße 8, 49767 Twist
Timetable
Telephone: 05936 9330-50
Fax: 05936 9330-44
Email: Get in touch

Contact

Herr Pascal Joostberends
Visiting Address: Overbergstraße 8, 49767 Twist
Telephone: 05936 9330-54
Email: Get in touch
www: http://www.twist-emsland.de
Department:
Ordnungswesen
Room:
02
responsible for:
Frau Andrea Lüken
Visiting Address: Overbergstraße 8, 49767 Twist
Telephone: 05936 9330-54
Email: Get in touch
www: http://www.twist-emsland.de
Department:
Ordnungswesen
Room:
02
responsible for:
Address: Ordeniederung 1 , 49716 Meppen
Postal address: Post Office Box 15 62 , 49705 Meppen
Telephone: 05931 44-0
Email: Get in touch
www: https://www.emsland.de
Transport Connection:
Station Haltestelle Kreishaus
Bus: 993
Building Access
elevator available, wheelchair-accessible

Which documents are required?

Your ad must include the following:

  • Name
  • Address
  • Number of animals expected to be kept on an annual average (for bees: number of bee colonies)
  • Type of use of animals
  • Location (in the case of migratory sheep herds, the place of business is considered as the location)

What are the fees?

Fees apply. Please contact the relevant authority.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

The notification must be made before the start of animal husbandry.

Changes to the above notification shall be communicated to the competent body without delay.

What else should I know?

In the keeping of

  • Cattle
  • Pigs
  • Sheep and goats
  • Poultry other than pigeons

there is a compulsory membership in the Niedersächsische Tierseuchenkasse.

Owners of horses, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry must therefore inform the Niedersächsische Tierseuchenkasse of their name, address and the type and number of animals kept with them on the reference date within two weeks of the reference date 03.01.2010. This notification shall be made annually. The Niedersächsische Tierseuchenkasse retrieves data on cattle holdings via the central cattle database.

The keeping of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry (except pigeons) and bees must be reported to the Niedersächsische Tierseuchenkasse within two weeks of the establishment of the stock.

Legal basis

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

Further Links

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