Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's grandson caused by asking for incorporations to Cologne for rebellion.
Now is also called for an expansion of Düsseldorf. The lands to howls! Konrad Adenauer, grandson of the first Chancellor and Chairman of "Home + base" in Cologne, has put it brutally:
The cathedral city is bursting at the seams, needs more land to cope with the influx. His request to strike: the surrounding communities as simply Pulheim Cologne.
In Düsseldorf, the problem is still urgent. The city has hardly any expansion space, but the highest projected influx in NRW in the coming years. So: Düsseldorf would much rather grow into the surrounding countryside as the Rhenish rival.
"Would be ideal would include a large municipality, the Neuss, Ratingen, Meerbusch, Hilden, Monheim, Langenfeld, Mettmann and Kaarst," says veteran political Düsseldorf, Hans-Otto Christiansen (SPD). "This was missed at the last local government reform in 1975, unfortunately. I'm afraid, is no longer enforceable, but it would urgently necessary! "
This can be seen in the neighborhood quite different. "We are preparing 40 years ago Meerbusch, an amalgamation would be the last idea, come on, we would," says spokesman Michael Busch's Sea Gorgs. Herbert Napp, Neusser Mayor: "The days of incorporation are over, now there are other ways of cooperation."
Ratingen Mayor Harald Birkenkamp: "The supporters can dream of a long time!" "We were just in the 70 to Düsseldorf, which has been revised. Size alone is not effective. As a small administration, we are faster, "says Monheim Mayor Daniel Zimmermann.
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