Stadt Großräschen

What Stadt Großräschen does

Stadt Großräschen is a municipal government entity (Öffentliche Stelle) located in the Lausitzer Seenland region of Brandenburg, Germany, administering local public services for approximately 8,000 residents distributed across seven incorporated districts (Allmosen, Barzig, Dörrwalde, Freienhufen, Saalhausen, Wormlage, and Woschkow). The municipality provides core administrative functions including civil registry, building permits, business registration, urban planning, social services, waste management, and public safety via volunteer fire brigades. Beyond basic administration, Stadt Großräschen acts as the coordinator and primary digital touchpoint for tourism around the Großräschener See and the IBA-Terrassen landmark development, integrated with the regional Lausitzer Seenland destination network.

The municipality's digital infrastructure is built on the PortUNA.cms platform and delivers an integrated e-government portal comprising a Geoportal for urban planning and property information, a Bürgerinformationssystem for city council transparency, an online Gewerbeamt business registration service, and the Seenluft24 YouTube video channel. The website carries a digital accessibility statement claiming WCAG 2.1 A/AA conformance under the Brandenburg BbgBITV framework, with no formal third-party audit certification confirmed at the October 2023 publication. Distribution combines a main city hall (Rathaus) at Seestr. 16 with district offices and an online self-service portal.

Revenue is generated through four streams: municipal taxes (Grundsteuer and Gewerbesteuer), administrative fees for permits and registrations, intergovernmental transfers including ELER rural development funds and Strukturwandel Lausitz structural transformation grants, and lease income from municipal land leased to wind park operators UKA and PNE. Governance is exercised by Mayor André Lehnick and the city assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung), with district-level autonomy channeled through Ortsteilbudgets of €2,500–€11,000 per district and a BKS youth committee budget of €10,000. The November 2022 SVV resolution linking wind park lease revenue to affected districts is a defining structural move linking the post-mining renewable energy buildout to community-level funding.

Name

Stadt Großräschen

Legal name

Stadt Großräschen

Website

https://grossraeschen.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stadt Großräschen is a municipal government in Brandenburg, Germany, administering public services for approximately 8,000 residents across seven districts within the Lausitzer Seenland, operating a PortUNA.cms-based e-government portal and coordinating tourism around the Großräschener See and IBA-Terrassen development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120), Executive Offices (92111), Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (92114), Other General Government Support (921190)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Works & Municipal Infrastructure (Streets, Stormwater, Facilities) (BPAIACAF), Urban & Regional Planning (Land Use, Zoning, Master Planning) (BPAIANAD)

Keywords

• Municipal administration
• Local government services
• Urban planning
• Civil registry services
• Tourism information

Headquarters

HQ city

Großräschen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Municipal Tax Revenue: Revenue from local taxes including property tax (Grundsteuer) and trade tax (Gewerbesteuer) collected from residents and businesses within the municipality
2. Administrative Fees: Fees collected for municipal services including civil registry, construction permits, business registrations, and other administrative services
3. State and Federal Funding: Intergovernmental transfers and grants from Brandenburg state and federal government including ELER rural development funds and structural transformation funding (Strukturwandel Lausitz)
4. Wind Farm Lease Income: Revenue from leasing municipal land to wind park operators UKA and PNE for energy generation facilities

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Stadt Großräschen is a municipal government entity providing local public administration to roughly 8,000 residents across seven districts, including civil registry, construction and building permits, urban planning, social services, public safety coordination, waste management, economic development, and tourism promotion for the Lausitzer Seenland region. It also operates district-level community programs funded through Ortsteilbudgets and generates supplementary revenue from leasing municipal land to wind farm operators UKA and PNE.

Product overview

The Stadt Großräschen website is a municipal information and citizen services portal. It is built on the PortUNA.cms platform and serves as a unified digital presence for the city, consolidating administrative services (such as the online trade office, geoportal, citizen information system, and citizen mailbox), tourism information (including the Großräschener See lake district and IBA-Terrassen), news and events, and local district/suburb information. It does not offer a commercial product or SaaS platform but rather a government web portal providing public-facing administrative and informational services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Municipal Administrative Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Ortsteilbudgets of €2,500-11,000 per year distributed to 7 districts for community development
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Lausitzer SeenlandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional tourism partnership promoting the Lusatian Lake District. Stadt Großräschen participates in joint marketing, event promotion, and destination development for the artificial lake region being developed from former open-pit mines.
• IBA-TerrassencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational Building Exhibition (IBA) project partner for the IBA-Terrassen development at the lake shore. Hosts tourist information office and serves as major tourism development project.
• Wirtschaftsregion LausitzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEconomic development partnership supporting structural transformation in the Lusatia region. Stadt Großräschen participates in 'Krasse Gegend, krasse Lausitz' initiative for structural change communication.
• Nachwuchs-Literatur-Zentrum 'ich schreibe!' e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYouth literature center partnering for cultural workshops in Freienhufen, documenting structural transformation from coal mining to post-industrial economy.
• Gewerbeverein GroßräschenminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLocal business association (commercial association) representing and supporting local commerce and enterprise in Großräschen.
• Dorfverein 'Dorfkirche Freienhufen - ein Lebensraum' e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVillage association focused on preservation and public opening of the historic Freienhufen village church, organizing concerts, readings, and cultural events.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Stadt Schwarzheide: Schwarzheide is a small Brandenburg municipality in the Lausitz region with a similar population scale and a comparable mix of industrial heritage and ongoing transformation. Its BASF Schwarzheide industrial anchor makes it a close analog for the type of municipal fiscal exposure to a single large employer that Großräschen faces in its commercial zones.
• Stadt Drebkau: Drebkau is a small Brandenburg municipality neighboring Großräschen in the Spree-Neiße region, sharing the Lausitzer Seenland tourism context and similar post-mining transformation challenges. Comparable in scale, Ortsteil structure, and funding mix.
• Stadt Welzow: Welzow is a small Brandenburg municipality in the Lausitz region with a directly comparable coal-mining structural transformation narrative (former Welzow-Süd open-pit mine). It represents the closest analog for the post-mining economic repositioning that Großräschen is executing.
• Stadt Finsterwalde: Finsterwalde is a small Brandenburg municipality in the Elbe-Elster/Lusatia border region, slightly larger but operating in a similar structural transformation and small-municipal governance context. Useful for benchmarking service delivery and digital infrastructure investment.
• Stadt Senftenberg: Senftenberg is the larger Kreisstadt of Oberspreewald-Lausitz, directly adjacent to Großräschen and sharing the same post-mining Lausitzer Seenland context. Both municipalities are navigating identical structural transformation challenges, share IBA-Terrassen tourism assets, and operate comparable Brandenburg municipal governance models — the most direct peer available.
• Stadt Calau: Calau is a small Brandenburg municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district with similar population scale, post-mining heritage, and rural Ortsteil composition. It offers direct comparability for budget structure, intergovernmental funding mix, and tourism positioning.
• Stadt Vetschau/Spreewald: Vetschau is a small Brandenburg municipality in the Spreewald-Lausitz region with similar population scale and similar tourism-and-structural-change positioning. Comparable in governance model, revenue mix, and Ortsteil/district structure.
• Stadt Spremberg: Spremberg is a small Brandenburg municipality in the Lausitz region with similar population scale and shared structural transformation context. Comparable in Ortsteil structure and reliance on intergovernmental transfers.
• Stadt Lübbenau/Spreewald: Lübbenau is a similarly-sized Brandenburg tourism-oriented municipality in the Spreewald/Lausitz region, also leveraging natural assets (Spreewald canals) for tourism. It serves as a useful comparison point for how a small Brandenburg municipality can monetize a natural/cultural asset at scale.

Regional players

• Amt Altdöbern: Amt Altdöbern is a neighboring administrative community in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district serving several smaller municipalities. Its proximity and shared regional tourism assets (Altdöberner See) make it a relevant regional peer for inter-municipal cooperation and Ortsteil governance benchmarking.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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