District Office Neustadt A.D. Waldnaab

What District Office Neustadt A.D. Waldnaab does

The Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab (Landratsamt, operating under the brand "NEW") is a public administrative district in the Oberpfalz region of northeastern Bavaria, Germany, serving approximately 95,866 residents across 38 municipalities spanning 1,426.43 km² and bordering the Czech Republic for 38 km. As a Gebietskörperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts under the Free State of Bavaria, it exercises statutory authority (hoheitliche Befugnisse) for both state-delegated and self-governance functions, providing a full spectrum of local government services including vehicle registration, driver's licensing, building permits, social welfare, public health, youth and family services, veterinary and consumer protection, environmental regulation, school administration, and tourism promotion. It is governed by Landrat Andreas Meier (in office since 2014, re-elected 2020 and 2026) and a 60-member Kreistag, with approximately 101-250 employees distributed across nine service locations.

The district's digital product surface centers on NEWMaps, a digital twin platform built on ArcGIS/ESRI that maps facilities and institutions across education, health, mobility, and leisure for the Landkreis and the city of Weiden in der Oberpfalz, complemented by NEWGIS, an intercommunal Geographic Information System. Citizen-facing transactional services include online appointment booking via Flexappoint, the Digitaler Bauantrag (electronic building permit submission), electronic communication through the Sicherer Dialog system compliant with Bavarian E-Government law (BayEGovG), online vehicle registration/deregistration, and downloadable forms. Supporting applications include the Awido-powered Abfall-App for waste collection scheduling (~35,800 residual waste bins, ~14,900 bio-waste bins serviced), the LivingApps-based Bildungs-Newsletter, the Bürgerinfoportal and Ratsinfoportal for political transparency, and a district brochure. The technology stack features ESRI ArcGIS Online, self-hosted Matomo analytics, PayPal for fee collection, YouTube for video content, and Google Maps/OpenStreetMap integrations.

The district is funded through public tax revenue (Kreisumlage), state and federal grants, and Verwaltungsgebühren (administrative fees), with no commercial pricing model. Recent capital activity includes the €6.7M renovation of the historic Kavaliersgebäude in Vohenstrauß (~€3.1M externally funded, opened July 2026) consolidating Volkshochschule, KFZ-Zulassungsstelle, and Führerscheinstelle, and an LED lighting conversion at the Berufliches Schulzentrum Neustadt/WN (€117,403 federal grant, 72.37% average electricity savings, 860 t CO2 reduction). The entity reports no private funding rounds, no subsidiaries in the commercial sense (only internal departments), no M&A activity, and a parent entity of the Free State of Bavaria.

Name

District Office Neustadt A.D. Waldnaab

Legal name

Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Website

https://neustadt.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab is a Bavarian district government office (Landratsamt) providing statutory administrative, public health, social welfare, vehicle registration, licensing, and waste management services to approximately 95,866 residents across 38 municipalities in northeastern Bavaria.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration (District Government Services)

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs) (BPAIACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Property & Asset Management (Federal Buildings, Fleet, Land) (BPAIAAAJ), Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management) (BPAIANAH)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Vehicle registration services
• Driver licensing services
• Municipal waste management
• Building permit authority

Headquarters

HQ city

Neustadt An Der Waldnaab

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab operates as a public administrative district office (Landratsamt) delivering statutory government services to approximately 95,866 residents across 38 municipalities in northeastern Bavaria. Core offerings include vehicle registration (KFZ-Zulassung), driver's license issuance, building permit processing, social welfare administration, public health services, youth welfare, waste management, environmental protection, veterinary and consumer protection, and school administration, delivered via in-person service desks and digital channels including NEWMaps, NEWGIS, online appointment booking, and the Sicherer Dialog electronic communication system.

Product overview

The Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab (NEW) operates as a district government office providing comprehensive public administration services to its approximately 95,866 residents across 38 municipalities. The digital service portfolio centers on NEWMaps (a digital twin platform for mapping district facilities), NEWGIS (geographic information system), and citizen-facing online services including KFZ-Zulassung, Führerscheinstelle, and appointment booking. Additional digital offerings include the Abfall-App for waste management, the Bürgerinfoportal and Ratsinfoportal for political transparency, a Digitaler Bauantrag for building permits, and the Bildungs-Newsletter. Core government functions such as health services, social services, youth welfare, and environmental protection are provided as administrative services rather than commercial products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NEWMaps

Quantifiable outcome

• LED lighting conversion at Berufliches Schulzentrum Neustadt/WN achieved 72.37% average electricity savings and 860 t CO2 reduction over system lifetime.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Landkreis Freyung-Grafenau: Lower-Bavarian district (~78k residents) with a structurally similar rural/tourism profile and external-border characteristics; relevant peer for tourism marketing and quality-of-place investments.
• Landkreis Passau: Larger Lower-Bavarian district (~195k residents) with an extended service portfolio; broader incumbent-style peer for the upper bound of what a Bavarian Landkreis of this typology operates.
• Landkreis Bayreuth: Neighbouring Oberfranken district (~104k residents) with a similar city-adjacent rural structure; relevant peer for Kreistag scale, building-permit throughput and tourism-services operating model.
• Landkreis Regen: Lower-Bavarian district (~77k residents) with a comparable rural, low-density profile; useful peer for assessing the digital twin / GIS service model in a similarly small administration.
• Landkreis Hof: Adjacent Oberfranken district (~95k residents) with a near-identical population scale to Landkreis NEW; strong peer for direct service-throughput and staffing benchmarking.
• Landkreis Cham: Neighbouring Oberpfalz district (~130k residents) sharing the Czech-border context; directly comparable for cross-border administration, waste management scale, and rural service delivery models.
• Landkreis Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge: Neighbouring Oberfranken district (~73k residents) with similar demographic pressures and structural-budget challenges; a good like-for-like peer for Kreisumlage dynamics and capex prioritisation.
• Landkreis Tirschenreuth: Adjacent Oberpfalz district with a similarly rural, low-density profile (~73k residents) and a comparable service mix; a like-for-like peer for digital-services adoption and small-district operating economics.
• Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach: Adjacent Oberpfalz district with a comparable population (~103k) and an equivalent KFZ/Bauamt/Jugendamt service portfolio; useful peer for cross-benchmarking e-government rollout.
• Landkreis Schwandorf: Neighbouring Oberpfalz district with a comparable population (~150k), mix of cities and rural municipalities, and an analogous KFZ-Zulassung, Bauamt, Abfallwirtschaft and Gesundheitsamt service portfolio; the closest structural match for benchmarking service scale and digital maturity.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/landratsamtnew
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/landkreis-neustadt-an-der-waldnaab

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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