Category:Collective municipalities in Germany

This category contains collective municipalities in Germany. There are four terms for them in varying Bundesländer (federal states). The term Amt (plural, Ämter) is employed in the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg; the term Samtgemeinde is employed in Lower Saxony, Verbandsgemeinde in Saxony-Anhalt (since 2009/2010) and Rhineland-Palatinate while Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) is the term in the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony and formerly in Saxony-Anhalt.