The city of Burghausen has created departments to develop and promote important subject areas in a sustainable manner.
One person each is responsible for the areas of schools, social affairs, senior citizens, family and culture. All speakers are also members of the city council.
For the areas of youth, the environment, nature conservation and people with disabilities, there is one person or, in the case of the disability officer, two people who have been commissioned by the city council to take care of these topics. Detailed information and profiles about the speakers and representatives can be found under speakers and delegates.
family unit
There has been a family department in Burghausen since 2003. With the founding of the department, the city of Burghausen was the first municipality in the district to introduce a family department.
The family department is a contact point for Burghausen families and the parents' councils of the kindergartens. In addition, the family department strives for cooperation with the youth welfare office, the local day-care centers and schools and the numerous social institutions in Burghausen.
The family department pursues the goal of broadly anchoring the value of the family in society.
For this purpose, the family department, under the direction of the long-standing family officer Dorle Graf, creates a corresponding network and takes up ideas and improvements.
In recent years, the family department has initiated numerous events and significantly expanded what the city of Burghausen has to offer families. This is how the family department came into being
- the Kindernest (care for children under the age of three in the community centre),
- holiday care in schools,
- the family home
- the toy rental in the family home
- the family breakfast for parents and parent councils
- the flea market for children
- the family day
- the welcome greeting for newborns
- the forest kindergarten
- mobile educational advice
- the unbureaucratic assumption of the costs of kindergarten fees for socially disadvantaged families
The compatibility of family and career is currently the focus of the tasks of the family department. Family advisor Dorle Graf therefore wants to optimize the situation in the Burghausen day-care centers. In addition, the family department is pursuing other plans that will make family life in Burghausen even more attractive and appealing than before.
Contact
family unit
Dorle Graf (family officer)
dorle.graf@gmail.com
Responsiveness:
Monday
14:00 p.m. to 17:00 p.m. (at the family home)
youth department
The Burghausen youth department is the interface between Burghausen's mayor, the city councilors and the full-time youth workers in the city. This results in numerous discussions and meetings to advance relevant topics and projects.
For many young people, Burghausen is the focal point of their lives - in cooperation with all those responsible, the youth department pursues the goal of promoting social sustainability and further developing existing structures. For this reason, the youth department attaches great importance to participation, networking and development.
Magnus Stummvoll has held the position of youth officer since April 2020.
If you have suggestions, requests or constructive criticism, you can contact the youth officer at any time.
Contact
youth officer
Magnus Mute
magnus.stummvoll@burghausen.de
or via Facebook
Responsiveness
By agreement
cultural department
The Burghausen cultural department attaches great importance to the promotion of cultural diversity in the city and the corresponding infrastructure. The city's cultural program should appeal to as many people in the city as possible, but also to visitors from outside.
The Department of Culture pursues the goal of giving culture space in Burghausen and maintaining or promoting its high status in the city.
The cultural offer in Burghausen should bring people together. For this reason, on the one hand, it wants to convince with diversity and, on the other hand, distinguish Burghausen as a place of culture. It doesn't matter whether world stars come to the city on the Salzach or local artists show their skills.
The cultural department also focuses on promoting young talent - be it with the help of institutions such as the music-oriented Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium, the music school, or with the help of scholarship programs and prizes for young artists.
The culture department not only stays on traditional paths, but also breaks new ground: under the direction of the mayor and culture officer Florian Schneider, culture in Burghausen also takes place in unusual places throughout Burghausen - for example in the city park. Gladly also in unusual configurations such as an opera in the city park or a pop-up cinema on the Napoleonshöhe. In this way we can come full circle, reaching as many people as possible in the city with culture, because it is precisely in such places that encounters take place – between the people themselves and between culture and people.
Contact
First Mayor/ Cultural Advisor
Florian schneider
Stadtplatz 112
Directions/route planner
T. +49 8677 887-200
buergermeisterbuero@burghausen.de
school report
The school department of the city of Burghausen is the link between the primary and secondary schools and the city administration in Burghausen. Together with the school directors and the mayor, the school officer draws up the schools' budget, takes care of the school's equipment and provides impetus for the renovation and expansion of the school building. The school representative is the general contact for the school staff as well as for the city administration and the parents. In summary, the school department ensures that the schools are equipped with up-to-date resources and that the lessons and the various childcare options can take place in the best possible way.
Norbert is currently the English school lecturer in Burghausen.
"As a former headmaster, I am very familiar with the tasks, necessities and problems in the schools and certainly not only have an organizational but also an important pedagogical perspective for my office. I know our schools very well and I have an excellent network.”
Norbert Englisch, school referee Burghausen
Contact
Contact Person
Norbert English
T. + 49 8677 61618
norb.english@gmx.de
Seniors Unit
The senior citizens' department of the city of Burghausen is the link between the political bodies of the city and the senior citizens. Together with the city, the senior citizens' department aims to offer older citizens an attractive standard of living in Burghausen. The senior citizens' department also works together with the Burghauser working group for senior citizens.
In addition to numerous events such as senior citizens' afternoons and senior citizens' birthdays, the senior citizens' department is on hand to offer help and advice to older people in the city.
An elaborately designed calendar informs senior citizens about events in Burghausen and the surrounding area. At the same time, older people will also find numerous contact points where they can find out about things like living for the elderly, leisure activities for senior citizens, help and relief in everyday life.
With all of its decisions and measures, the senior citizens’ department pursues the goal of young and old growing together so that everyone can liven up the city of Burghausen, which has so much to offer.
The senior citizens' officer of the city of Burghausen, Heinz Donner, is in charge of the senior citizens' department.
"For me, the guiding principle for the Senior Citizens' Unit in Burghausen is the sentence by August Bebel: only those who know the past can understand the present and shape the future."
Heinz Donner, Senior Citizens' Officer Burghausen
Contact
Burghausen Senior Citizens Department
Heinz Donner (Senior Citizens Advisor)
T. +49 8677 887-561 (Civic Island Burghausen e.V.)
seniorenreferat@burghausen.de
social department
The social department of the city of Burghausen has a wide range of tasks. Together with the other departments of the city, the social department supplements and networks the extensive offers of social support, structures and directs them in the sense of a solidary city community.
The Burghauser social department sees possible fields of activity in the areas
- Promotion of the disabled
- Matters of asylum assistance, migration and integration
- Recording of impulses from the citizens' island
- promoting active citizenship
- promotion of women
- Expansion fair city
- cooperative living
- Combating poverty, promoting participation and promoting disadvantaged groups
Another area of the social department includes the task of recognizing needs, using synergies and initiating concrete development opportunities. In addition, the social department creates a place for communication and transparency and ensures the topic-specific interlocking between the Burghausen city administration, the city council and external institutions such as independent welfare, the citizens' island, initiatives in the social sector and various associations.
The social department always has an extensive agenda.
For example, it organized the Adult Social Welfare Services Round Table, which brought together 21 organisations.
In the area of integration, the social department talks to the asylum workers, among others, and maintains close contact with the integration advisory board.
To ensure that Burghausen is barrier-free, the social department meets regularly with the disability officers.
The social department also takes care of the fair trade city of Burghausen with great commitment. Regular steering group meetings are held here.
Designing the social space of the city of Burghausen in an environmentally friendly and humane way and involving various social groups was one of the goals of the urban project “Burghausen “tilt-free”, which started in 2022.
The Burghausen social department has a permanent place in the "Women's Strengths" series of events.
The integration advisory board, Haus der Familie and social department regularly organize a welcome party for new residents.
The Burghauser social department is headed by social officer Sabine Bachmeier.
Contact
Social Department Burghausen
Sabine Bachmeier (social officer)
T. + 49 8677 2434
socialreferat@burghausen.de
Consultation hours by appointment in the family home
environmental department
The Burghausen Environmental Department is pursuing many ambitious goals. Whether groundwater protection, energy saving and use of waste heat, sustainable agriculture or biodiversity in the city - the agenda is as extensive as it is challenging. To implement its goals, the environmental department works closely with the environmental and building authorities of the city of Burghausen.
The environmental department wants to reduce the CO² footprint of the city of Burghausen in a variety of ways
- Energy saving in municipal properties
- Timber construction in industry
- a corresponding residential building and communal real estate
For the old town of Burghausen, the focus is on energy supply and renovation. In addition, the city would like to reduce gray energy in the construction industry and is therefore developing appropriate funding programs. For Stadtwerke Burghausen, which also falls within the sphere of activity of the environmental department, the department has undertaken to remediate the groundwater.
In recent years, the environmental department has initiated, helped to develop and implement many projects. These include, for example, the Wöhrsee laboratory, the Waldrapp project, public relations work for the renaturation of the Salzach and the "Geotage of biodiversity in the industrial city of Burghausen".
Cooperation with the Technical University of Munich on the research project "Digisen's nitrate-reduced and PPP-avoiding management of agricultural land in the water protection area" was also on the environmental department's to-do list.
The environmental department is committed to establishing biodiversity and the sponge city in the green space plans of the city of Burghausen.
The Burghausen Environmental Department takes the statement by the writer Herrmann Hesse as its guiding principle: "In order for the possible to happen, the impossible must be tried again and again".
The environmental department in Burghausen is headed by environmental officer Gunter Strebel.
Contact
Environmental Department Burghausen
Gunter Strebel (Environment Officer)
strebelgunter@web.de