| City of Nordenham |
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| General |
| Administration¹ | | Street address: | Stadt Nordenham
Walther-Rathenau-Straße 25
26954 Nordenham |  | | Postal address: |
Postfach
1553 / 54
26945 Nordenham | | | Telephone: | 04731/ 84 0 | | Fax: | 04731/ 84 349 | | E-mail: | stadt@nordenham.de | | Homepage: | http://www.nordenham.de  | |
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District
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Special
location features¹ | Industrial and seaport town as future-oriented location for business investment. Local urban centre of intermediate rank within the catchment area of the major regional centres of Bremerhaven, Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven. Nordenham has a high residential and recreational value.
Nordenham is for the most part an assisted area within the EU Objective 2 funding programme. Business settlements in the innercity area can be subsidised by the City Promotion Programme.
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Business sites,
real estates | | Business sites: | 4 |
View | | | Real estates: | 13 |
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| Population |
Population²
| | | | | | | | | | Inhabitants: | 27,246 | | 13,897 |
(51.0 %)
| | 13,349 |
(49.0 %)
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Age structure: |  | |
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Population density²
| | Inhabitants/km²: | 312.6 | |
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| Infrastructure |
| Educational institutions² | | Elementary schools: | 10 | | Secondary schools: | 2 | | Secondary modern schools: | 2 | | Grammar schools: | 5
(District of Wesermarsch)
| | Special schools: | 3
(District of Wesermarsch)
| | Vocational schools: | 1
(District of Wesermarsch)
| | Other educational
facilities¹:
| Wesermarsch district school of adult education, BBS vocational school, DAA Deutsche Angestellten Akademie (further education), BNW Bildungswerk der Niedersächsischen Wirtschaft (training centre operated by Lower Saxony industries), Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences directly situated on the other side of the river Weser. | |
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| Health care¹ | | General practitioners: | 9 | | Dentists: | 13 | | Medical specialists: | 47 | | Hospitals: | 1
(137 total beds)
| | Other medical health
facilities:
| The Wesermarsch Clinic (Wesermarsch-Klinik Nordenham GmbH) includes a permanent emergency outpatient department/day ward, general and accident surgery, urology, gynaecology and obstretics, internal medicine, anaesthetics and intensive care medicine, as well as other departments. | |
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| Leisure/culture/sport¹ | Leisure
facilities:
| There is a lively range of club and society activities to choose from in Nordenham - over 120 such clubs exist with sporting, cultural and social orientations.
Practically all forms of sport can be prcatised locally. Owing to the location on the River Weser, water sports play a major role. | | Cultural
facilities:
| The Jahnhalle leisure and culture centre offers
cabaret, varieté, rock and pop music.
The Friedeburg civic hall offers facilities for theatre productions, symphony concerts, rock concerts, balls, conventions and trade exhibitions. | | Sport
facilities:
| The city runs 3 sports centres each with 2 sports grounds and one large-scale sports hall. It also runs an open-air swimming pool and the 'North' indoor swimming baths. In addition, there are gymnasia and sports fields in every district.
The municipal sports sites are used for school sports and placed at the disposal of the sports clubs for their activities free of charge.
The clubs themselves have various facilities such as several shooting ranges, a gliding field, a sport boat harbour, fitness centres and tennis courts. | | |
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| Living space¹ | | Price of residential building land: | 28.00 - 82.00 €/m² | |
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| Transport¹ | | | | | | | | Motorway | A 27 | | 15 km | | | Motorway | A 29 | | 40 km | | | Trunk road / A-road | B 212 | | 0 km | | | Trunk road / A-road | B 437 | | 0 km | | | Trunk road / A-road | B 211 | | 16 km | | | International airport | Bremen | | 70 km | | | Regional airport | Bremerhaven | | 24 km | | | Rail station | Nordenham | | 0 km | | | Freight traffic centre | Bremen | | 65 km | | | Seaport | Nordenham | | 0 km | | | Inland port | Nordenham | | 0 km | | | | Comment on the
transport infrastructure:
| Seaport and inland harbour directly situated on the River Weser, the B 212 federal trunk road runs through the city precincts, access to the A 27 motorway via the B 437 and the Weser Tunnel | | |
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| Economics |
Economic strength²  | | | | | | | Gross domestic product 2007:
| 25,940 | 88 % | | Buying power level 2002:
| 15,900 | - | | | | | | | | | Gross value added 2007 | | - Production sector: | 76,858 | 118 % | | - Service sector: | 49,630 | 96 % | | | | | | | | Net revenue from local business tax 2008:
| 349.78 | 110 % | | Municipal share of income tax 2008:
| 254.56 | 88 % | | |
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Employment²
| | | | | | | | | | | Employed persons: | 8,370 | 2,718 |
(32.5 %)
| 5,652 |
(67.5 %)
| | Change over previous year: | -59 |
(-0.7 %)
| | | Employment rate: | 51.2 | % | |
Employed persons acc. to
economic sectors: |  | | | | | | | | Commuters: | 2,800 | 2,698 | +102 | | | |
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| Unemployment³ | |
Major
companies¹ | |
| Collection rates¹ | | Local business tax: | 410 % | | | Local property tax A: | 420 % | | | Local property tax B: | 420 % | | |
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| Business promotion schemes¹ | Nordenham Business Promotion Programme:
- City Promotion Programme (City-Förderprogramm)
- City Construction Promotion Programme (City-Bau-Förderprogramm)
- Provision of basic supplies for the town districts
Redevelopment Programme City-South (Sanierungsprogramm City-Süd)
Promotion and funding for small and medium-sized enterprises in the District of Wesermarsch
| | | Link to promotion info: | Nordenham Business Promotion and Redevelopment Programmes
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Business promotion
agencies¹ | |
