Kupferstadt Stolberg

What Kupferstadt Stolberg does

Kupferstadt Stolberg (officially Kupferstadt Stolberg (Rhld.)) is a public municipality (Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, organized as a Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts under German local-government law. The city is led by Mayor (Bürgermeister) Patrick Haas and is structured into four Dezernate (administrative departments) covering finance, social services, urban development, education, and public safety. Its core service offering is the delivery of statutory municipal administration to residents: civil registry (Standesamt), resident registration (Meldewesen), driver's license matters, identity documents, public order and safety, social welfare, building/urban planning, and cultural/leisure facilities such as Hallenbad Glashütter Weiher, the Stadtarchiv, the Stadtbücherei, the Volkshochschule, and the recurring Open Air Kino "Schau!Burg." The municipality operates from a headquarters at Rathausstraße 11–13 plus three additional service offices (Frankentalstraße 16, Bernhard-Kuckelkorn-Platz 8, Zweifaller Straße 277) in Stolberg.

The underlying technical footprint is a standard e-government stack: an InfoSite 6 CMS from Sitepark GmbH, hosting by Kommunale Datenverarbeitungszentrale Rhein-Erft-Rur (KDVZ), email infrastructure via regio iT gesellschaft für informationstechnologie mbH, a booking/information system by feratel media technologies AG (Austria), and event content delivered via Komdigital UG's API. A citizen Serviceportal is hosted at serviceportal.stolberg.de. The city has a stated accessibility posture under BITV 2.0 and the BGG, and is currently reworking its website as part of a new Bürgerinformationssystem rollout. Kupferstadt Stolberg also runs the Dienstleistungszentrum Stolberg (DLZ), a 3,500 m² service center providing offices, workshops, and shops plus consulting/funding-application support to founders, young companies, and production-oriented service providers; the DLZ is networked with 12 partner centers across the Technologieregion Aachen.

Kupferstadt Stolberg does not operate a commercial business model. It is funded through municipal taxes, statutory fees for administrative services (e.g., passports, ID cards, driver's licenses, civil-registry acts under federal/state schedules), and intergovernmental transfers. There are no commercial customers, no published product pricing, no investors, and no parent company. The stated employee count of 49 in the input data appears to be a tracked subset rather than the full public-sector workforce typical of a German municipality of this size. Governance is exercised through the mayor and the elected city council (Stadtrat), and the entity is publicly owned by virtue of its status as a public-law corporation.

Name

Kupferstadt Stolberg

Legal name

Kupferstadt Stolberg (Rhld.)

Website

https://stolberg.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kupferstadt Stolberg is a German municipal government in North Rhine-Westphalia delivering public administration, citizen services, public safety, and cultural/recreational facilities to the residents of Stolberg, plus economic-development support through the DLZ service center.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration / Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (9211), Executive Offices (92111)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Works & Municipal Infrastructure (Streets, Stormwater, Facilities) (BPAIACAF), Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services (BPAIACAI)

Keywords

• Municipal administration services
• Citizen services portal
• Civil registry services
• Urban development planning
• Local economic development

Headquarters

HQ city

Stolberg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Core offering

Kupferstadt Stolberg is a municipal government that delivers public administrative services to its citizens through a multi-departmental structure (Dezernate I–IV). Its core offerings include civil registry and registration services (Standesamtswesen, Meldewesen), citizen services (Bürgerservice) such as driver's license exchange and loss reporting, public safety and order, social services, urban planning and construction oversight, education, culture (Volkshochschule, Stadtbücherei, Stadtarchiv), recreational facilities (Hallenbad Glashütter Weiher, Open Air Kino Schau!Burg), event programming, and economic development through the Dienstleistungszentrum Stolberg (DLZ).

Product overview

Kupferstadt Stolberg is a German municipal government (Rathaus) that provides public administrative services to its citizens. The city's digital presence consists of a municipal service portal offering various e-government services including Bürgerservice (citizen services), Führerschein (driver's license) services, Standesamtswesen (registry office), Meldewesen (registration), Öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung (public safety and order), as well as recreational services such as Hallenbad (indoor swimming pool), Veranstaltungskalender (event calendar), and Open Air Kino. The organization operates through multiple departments organized under four Dezernate (departments) covering areas including finance, social services, urban development, and education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Serviceportal (Municipal Service Portal) Online municipal service portal providing citizens of Stolberg with access to administrative e-government services including civil registry, registration, public safety, and citizen services.
• Hallenbad Glashütter Weiher (Indoor Swimming Pool) Public indoor swimming pool operated by Kupferstadt Stolberg for citizens and visitors, providing recreational swimming facilities.
• Open Air Kino Schau!Burg Annual open-air cinema event operated by Kupferstadt Stolberg at Burg Stolberg, providing cultural programming for residents and visitors.
• Veranstaltungskalender (Event Calendar) Online calendar of municipal events and activities in Stolberg, provided through the city's website and event listings infrastructure.
• Führerschein - Umtausch / Verlust (Driver's License Exchange and Loss Reporting) Citizen service for exchanging or reporting the loss of driver's licenses, provided at the Bürgerservice office by Iris Jansen and Ricarda Pawel.
• Amt für Öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung (Office of Public Safety and Order) Municipal department responsible for public safety and order matters in Kupferstadt Stolberg, located at Bernhard-Kuckelkorn-Platz 8.
• Amt für Recht und Versicherung (Office for Law and Insurance) Municipal department responsible for legal affairs and insurance matters, headed by Department Head Christoph Kueppers.
• Dienstleistungszentrum Stolberg (DLZ) - Business Service Center Business incubation and service center operated by Kupferstadt Stolberg, providing 3,500 square meters of office, workshop, and retail space along with consulting on financing/funding programs, contacts with authorities/chambers/universities, and seminar/training facilities. Integrated with the Technologieregion Aachen network of 12 partner centers.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and regional.

• Kommunale Datenverarbeitungszentrale Rhein-Erft-Rur (KDVZ)coreTechnology or IntegrationThe homepage of Kupferstadt Stolberg is hosted by Kommunale Datenverarbeitungszentrale Rhein-Erft-Rur, Bonnstraße 16-18, 50226 Frechen. This is the primary technical service provider responsible for hosting and data processing infrastructure for the city's website.
• regio iT gesellschaft für informationstechnologie mbHcoreTechnology or IntegrationEmail traffic for Kupferstadt Stolberg is processed through the data center of regio iT gesellschaft für informationstechnologie mbH, Lombardenstr. 24, 52070 Aachen. Emails are automatically scanned for malware and unsolicited advertising before delivery to recipients.
• Technologieregion AachenregionalStrategic or Co-development PartnerThrough close cooperation with 12 other technology, founder, and service centers in the Technologieregion Aachen (covering StädteRegion Aachen and the districts of Heinsberg, Düren, and Euskirchen), companies settled in the Dienstleistungszentrum Stolberg (DLZ) receive supra-regional support through a broad network.
• Dienstleistungszentrum Stolberg (DLZ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe DLZ Stolberg is a service center spanning 3,500 square meters of usable space, providing offices, workshops, and shops in variable sizes for production-oriented service providers, founders, and young companies. The DLZ management also provides consulting and services including financing and funding program applications, contacts with authorities, chambers, associations, and universities, and seminar and training room facilities.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• Stadt Düren: Düren is a larger NRW city (~93,000 residents) in the same Technologieregion Aachen cooperation network. It operates a similar full-stack municipal administration but at materially greater scale, serving as an aspirational benchmark rather than a head-to-head competitor.
• Stadt Monschau: Monschau is a smaller NRW municipality (~12,000 residents) in the StädteRegion Aachen, sharing the same regional cooperation framework. It is comparable for tourism-led municipal programming and cultural-event monetization but operates at a substantially smaller scale.
• Stadt Heinsberg: Heinsberg is a same-region NRW city (~41,000 residents) outside the StädteRegion Aachen but operating an equivalent municipal service portfolio under NRW law. It is comparable for service-catalog design, accessibility compliance, and e-government roadmap planning.

Direct peers

• Würselen: Würselen is a nearby municipality in the StädteRegion Aachen (~38,000 residents) running a comparable Bürgerservice-led administration. It is a direct comparator for citizen-services design, event programming, and regional economic-development cooperation.
• Eschweiler: Eschweiler is a neighboring city of comparable size (~56,000 residents) in the StädteRegion Aachen, NRW. It runs an analogous Dezernat-based municipal administration, offers the same e-government service catalog, and competes for the same regional economic-development pool via Technologieregion Aachen.
• Herzogenrath: Herzogenrath is a same-region NRW municipality (~46,000 residents) offering an identical municipal service set under the same NRW legal regime. It is a natural peer for benchmarking digital services, cultural programming, and inter-municipal cooperation.
• Alsdorf: Alsdorf is a similarly sized NRW municipality (~47,000 residents) within the StädteRegion Aachen. It provides the same full municipal service portfolio, faces the same NRW funding framework, and is one of Stolberg's closest functional benchmarks.

Broad incumbents

• Stadt Aachen: Aachen is the regional capital of the StädteRegion Aachen (~250,000 residents) and the dominant municipal services provider in the region. It anchors the same Technologieregion Aachen network Stolberg belongs to, and is the relevant incumbent for higher-tier services and large-scale economic development.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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