Stadt Goslar

What Stadt Goslar does

Stadt Goslar is the municipal administration of Goslar, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, serving approximately 51,000 residents across a 163.71 km² territory. The city provides standard local government functions — citizen registration, civil registry (Standesamt), building permits, childcare administration across 24 daycare facilities, urban development, cultural heritage management, environmental services, and tourism promotion. Since 14 December 1992, the Rammelsberg Mine and Old Town of Goslar have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site (extended in 2010 to include the Oberharzer Wasserwirtschaft water management system), making heritage preservation and tourism a structurally important function of the administration. The city also awards the internationally recognized Goslarer Kaiserring art prize annually since 1975.

The city's operational backbone is a digital service ecosystem centered on the service.goslar.de portal (Open R@thaus), the MachMit!Haus citizen participation center (opened October 2022), the Goslar-App mobile application (in beta testing as of mid-2025), and the beteiligung.goslar.de participation platform. These integrate with federal identity infrastructure (BundID for citizens, Mein Unternehmenskonto for businesses) and are supported by a dedicated Digitalization Officer (Diana Hoffmeister). Additional technology investments include SmartHarz LoRaWAN networking, the DOM:digital AR-based reconstruction of the former Goslar Cathedral, and the OVEDA open event database launched in September 2022. The city owns ten wholly-owned operating subsidiaries covering public transport (Stadtbus Goslar GmbH), water services (Aqua-Service GmbH), energy supply (Harz Energie GmbH & Co. KG), wastewater management, building management (GGM), forestry (Stadtforst), tourism marketing (GOSLAR marketing gmbh), the UNESCO mining museum (Weltkulturerbe Erzbergwerk Rammelsberg), and Hahnenklee tourism.

As a municipal corporation under German public law, Stadt Goslar has no shareholders; revenue derives from municipal taxation (property tax and local levies), administrative service fees, and intergovernmental transfers from Lower Saxony and the federal government (including Städtebauförderung urban development funding). The entity expanded territorially on 1 January 2014 through the incorporation of the formerly independent city of Vienenburg, adding approximately 10,000 residents. The city is governed by an elected municipal council and administered by Oberbürgermeisterin (Mayor) Urte Schwerdtner.

Name

Stadt Goslar

Legal name

Stadt Goslar

Website

https://goslar.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Stadt Goslar is the municipal administration of Goslar, Germany, serving approximately 51,000 residents with public services, digital citizen portals, childcare administration, urban development, and UNESCO World Heritage cultural and tourism management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Administration

NAICS

Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems (485113), Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (71219), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712)

SIC

Local & Suburban Transit & Interurban Hwy Passenger Trans (4100), Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744), Sanitary Services (4950), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Works & Municipal Infrastructure (Streets, Stormwater, Facilities) (BPAIACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Local Transportation, Parking & Mobility Administration (BPAIACAM), Culture, Heritage & Arts Itinerary Planning (THAKAOAK)

Keywords

• Municipal administration
• Public services
• Urban development
• Cultural heritage
• Citizen engagement

Headquarters

HQ city

Goslar

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Municipal Tax Revenue: Revenue from municipal taxes including property tax (Grundsteuer) and other local levies collected from residents and businesses within the city boundaries.
2. Service Fees and Charges: Fees for administrative services, building permits, childcare services, and other municipal user fees.
3. State and Federal Funding: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers from Lower Saxony state and German federal government including urban development funding (Städtebauförderung) for projects like Kaiserpfalzquartier.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stadt Goslar delivers municipal administration services to residents and local businesses, including civil registration, urban planning, building permits, family and childcare services, and citizen engagement programs. The city also manages its UNESCO-listed cultural heritage and promotes tourism. Services are delivered through physical town-hall offices, an online service portal, and a mobile application.

Product overview

Stadt Goslar operates a comprehensive digital municipal service ecosystem consisting of a citizen service portal (service.goslar.de), a mobile application (Goslar-App), and citizen participation platforms (MachMit!Goslar, Bürgerbeteiligungsportal). The service portal provides access to 24 childcare facilities, civil registry services, building permits, vehicle registration, and approximately 80+ administrative services. The participation platform combines the digital portal (beteiligung.goslar.de) with the physical MachMit!Haus location. Geographic information is available through the Geoportal. The city also maintains an open events database (OVEDA) and various digital initiatives including DOM:digital for cultural heritage visualization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KaiserPfalzQuartier: Urban development project covering approximately 29,300 m² at the edge of the historic Goslar old town between Wallstraße and the historic Kaiserpfalz, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area.
• AQUANTIC
• MachMit!Haus
• Kulturmarktplatz KUMA
• Goslar-App

Products and services

• Municipal citizen service portal

Quantifiable outcome

• 24 daycare facilities in city area with various providers
• +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

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• HarzEnergieminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2019Sponsorship of Bürgerworkshop citizen participation events in 2019.
• Sparkasse Hildesheim Goslar PeineminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2018Sponsorship of Bürgerworkshop citizen participation events in 2018-2019.
• Forres (Schottland)minorOthers · 1 January 2014Became fifth partner city through fusion of Goslar and Vienenburg in 2014. Associated partnershipverein exists for Goslar-Vienenburg & Forres.
• Brzeg (Polen)minorOthers · 1 January 2000Silesian city with 40,000 inhabitants, 50 km southeast of Wroclaw (Breslau). Partnership since 2000.
• Beroun (Tschechien)minorOthers · 1 January 199118,000 Einwohner, 30 km westlich von Prag. Partner since 1991 - developed into attractive small town over past decade.
• Windsor/Maidenhead (England)minorOthers · 1 January 1969Royal borough west of London with 130,000 inhabitants. Partnership since 1969.
• Arcachon (Frankreich)minorOthers · 1 January 1965Seebad (12,000 Einwohner) an der Atlantikküste, 80 km südlich von Bordeaux. Partnership since 1965 - oldest partner city relationship.
• Ra'anana (Israel)minorOthersCity friendship (Städtefreundschaft) with modern city northeast of Tel Aviv with approximately 85,000 inhabitants. Growing city with high-tech industry presence including SAP, Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard.
• Rammelsberg Mine and Old Town UNESCO Site PartnerscoreOthersUNESCO World Heritage Site partnership involving Rammelsberg Mine Museum, City of Goslar, and various heritage preservation organizations managing the cultural landscape.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Stadt Wolfenbüttel: Lower Saxony municipality of similar scale (~52k residents) located roughly 40 km from Goslar. Comparable service portfolio (Bürgerbüro, digital services, housing programs, heritage/UNESCO Memory of the World via Lessing manuscripts), offering a near-perfect size-and-function peer for benchmarking public-service delivery.
• Stadt Wernigerode: Harz-region tourism city (~33k residents) immediately adjacent to Goslar. Shares the same Harz tourism ecosystem (regional DMO, Schloss Wernigerode, Brocken access), competing for many of the same day-visitor and overnight stays and operating a similar subsidiary footprint including Stadtwerke utilities.
• Stadt Quedlinburg: UNESCO World Heritage city in Saxony-Anhalt with a medieval old town and Collegiate Church. Even smaller in scale than Goslar (~24k residents), Quedlinburg offers the most direct peer comparison for a small German heritage-anchored municipality dependent on tourism and intermunicipal funding.
• Stadt Hildesheim: Lower Saxony municipality of comparable scale (~100k residents) that also holds UNESCO World Heritage status (St. Michael's and Mariendom). Operates a similar municipal service portfolio including digital citizen services, economic development, and heritage tourism, making it the closest functional analogue to Goslar within the same Bundesland.
• Stadt Bad Harzburg: Small Harz tourism and spa municipality directly bordering Goslar. Operates a similar service mix (Kurverwaltung, public transport, tourism marketing) and competes for the same visitor base, making it the closest geographically comparable German municipality at a similar population scale.

Broad incumbents

• Stadt Braunschweig: Larger Lower Saxony municipal neighbor (~250k residents) operating a broadly similar municipal mandate (citizen services, transit BSVG, Stadtentwässerung, building management, heritage tourism, urban development). Functions as a broader incumbent that anchors regional services Goslar occasionally coordinates with.

Regional players

• Tourismusverband Harz: Regional destination management organization covering the broader Harz region. While not a competing municipality, GOSLAR marketing gmbh and Hahnenklee Tourismus GmbH (Goslar subsidiaries) operate in the same regional tourism ecosystem and are partially comparable as tourism-promotion entities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/goslar.de
• Instagraminstagram.com/goslar.de
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stadt-goslar

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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