Procedure descriptions
A
- Abfallgebühren Gewerbe und Einrichtungen
- Abfallgebühren private Haushalte
- Abgeschlossenheitsbescheinigung zur Aufteilung eines Gebäudes beantragen
- Abwasser entsorgen
- Address book - block entry
- Adoption - Request access to files
- Adoption of a foreign child - applying for notarisation in the register of births
- Adoption of a German child - notarisation ex officio
- Amtliche Beglaubigung von Abschriften, Ablichtungen, Vervielfältigungen und Negativen
- Amtliche Beglaubigung von Unterschriften
- Amusement arcade - apply for operating licence
- Änderung des Geschlechts u. Vornamen gemäß SBGG
- Anträge auf Nutzung öffentlicher Verkehrsflächen bei Baustellen
- Application for planning permission - change of use of a building structure
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct (extended)
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct (simple)
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a clearance certificate in accordance with the 1st Explosives Ordinance
- Apply for a death certificate
- Apply for a European firearms pass
- Apply for a firearms licence
- Apply for a fishing licence
- Apply for a gun licence
- Apply for a housing entitlement certificate
- Apply for a licence for auctions
- Apply for a licence for the non-commercial purchase and handling of explosive substances
- Apply for a licence to handle and transport explosive substances commercially
- Apply for a licence to handle and transport explosive substances commercially
- Apply for a licence to sell goods at trade fairs, festivals and special events
- Apply for a marriage certificate
- Apply for a name change in accordance with the Name Change Act
- Apply for a passport replacement for foreigners (emergency travel document)
- Apply for a passport replacement for foreigners from non-EU countries (travel document for foreigners)
- Apply for a pension due to partial reduction in earning capacity in the event of occupational disability
- Apply for a permit for oversized and heavy goods transport
- Apply for a polling card
- Apply for a reduced earning capacity pension
- Apply for a residence permit for employment
- Apply for a residence permit for qualified tolerated persons for the purpose of employment
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of self-employment
- Apply for a restaurant licence
- Apply for a settlement permit for highly qualified persons
- Apply for a settlement permit for skilled workers
- Apply for a small firearms licence
- Apply for a standard old-age pension
- Apply for a state family pass
- Apply for a travelling trade licence
- Apply for a tree felling licence
- Apply for an electronic residence permit (eAT)
- Apply for an exception to the switch-off times for façade lighting
- Apply for an exemption from the lorry driving ban during holiday periods
- Apply for an honorary sponsorship from the Federal President
- Apply for an old-age pension for severely disabled people
- Apply for assistance with living expenses
- Apply for education and participation benefits for children, adolescents and young adults in receipt of subsistence assistance
- Apply for education and participation benefits for young adults receiving basic income support in old age or in the event of reduced earning capacity
- Apply for education in a foster family (full-time care)
- Apply for education in a home or other form of assisted living
- Apply for help for young adults
- Apply for help to continue the household
- Apply for help to overcome particular social difficulties
- Apply for help with upbringing in full-time care (care allowance)
- Apply for integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities
- Apply for intensive one-to-one socio-educational support
- Apply for maintenance advance
- Apply for participation in social group work
- Apply for payment of rent arrears to secure accommodation
- Apply for permission for full-time care
- Apply for planning permission
- Apply for planning permission using the simplified procedure
- Apply for refutation of the presumed fighting dog status
- Apply for sickness assistance under the Child and Youth Welfare Act
- Apply for socio-educational family support
- Apply for subsequent certification of a marriage contracted by Germans abroad or with their participation
- Apply for subsequent certification of a marriage entered into abroad by persons recognised as stateless or recognised as refugees or with their participation
- apply for the eID card as a European citizen
- Applying for a boundary certificate for a property
- Applying for a gun ownership licence in the event of inheritance
- Applying for a licence to run a private hospital
- Applying for a residence permit for au pair workers (non-EU/EEA)
- Applying for a residence permit for students from countries outside the EU/EEA
- Applying for a residence permit for Swiss nationals
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of research
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of training
- Applying for a work permit for foreign students
- Applying for an EU Blue Card for highly qualified employment
- Applying for an exemption from the ban on driving on Sundays and public holidays
- Applying for childcare maintenance for unmarried mothers and fathers
- Applying for public appointment as a particularly competent auctioneer of third-party property
- Applying for rent allowance
- Applying for subsequent changes and additions to the activities listed on the travelling trade licence
- Aufenthaltserlaubnis beantragen
- Ausgesetzte oder freilaufende Haustiere melden (Fundtiere)
- Auskunft aus der Kaufpreissammlung beantragen
- Auskunftssperre im Melderegister
- Ausweispflicht - Befreiung beantragen
B
- Baugenehmigung - Werbeanlage beantragen
- Baulastenverzeichnis - Einsicht nehmen
- Bauvorbescheid - Bauvoranfrage beantragen
- Bebauungsplan einsehen
- Become a poll worker
- Behindertenfahrdienst
- Beschädigtes oder fehlendes Straßenschild melden
- Betreuungsangebote für Schulkinder (Grundschulalter) - Kind anmelden
- Bewohnerparkausweis beantragen
- Birth abroad - applying for entry in the German register of births
- Bombenfund oder andere Kampfmittel melden
- Brexit - Proof of right of residence under the Withdrawal Agreement
- Burial - Order a funeral
- Burial at sea
- Business re-registration
C
- Catering business - show continuation by heirs
- Catering trade - Apply for a temporary permit
- Catering trade - apply for permission for more than four days
- Certificate of no impediment to marriage - apply for issue
- Child day care centre - Register child for admission
- Children's passport - application is no longer possible since 1 January 2024
- Civil partnership certificate - apply for further copies
- Commercial installation of gaming machines with winning possibilities
- Commercial manufacture of weapons - apply for a licence
- Commercially organising games with prizes
- Confirm date of moving in (housing provider certificate)
D
- Datenübermittlung an öffentlich-rechtliche Religionsgemeinschaften
- Datenübermittlung der Meldebehörde an das Bundesamt für Wehrverwaltung
- Declare paternity and have it notarised
- Denkmalbuch - Denkmal aufnehmen
- Denkmalschutz - Änderungen an einer denkmalgeschützten Gesamtanlage beantragen
- Denkmalschutz - Bescheinigung für steuerliche Förderung beantragen
- Denkmalschutz - Denkmalrechtliche Genehmigung beantragen
- Deregister business
- Deregister residence
- Determine married name
- Determine property tax
- Display - Report noise nuisance
- Display handling and traffic with explosive substances
- Display handling of airbag or belt tensioner units
- Displaying the burning of pyrotechnic articles as the holder of a licence or certificate of competence
- Dispose of bulky waste
- Dispose of household waste
- Disposing of domestic green waste
- Disposing of electronic waste
- Disposing of hazardous substances from private households
- Disposing of organic waste
- Disposing of recyclable materials
- Dog tax - apply for exemption
- Dog tax - deregister dog
- Draw up a help plan
- Durchführung von Wochenmärkten
E
- Educational assistance - applying for support from care assistants
- Eheschließung bei geschiedenen oder verwitweten Verlobten anmelden
- Eheschließung bei sorgeberechtigten Partnern anmelden
- Eheschließung mit einer oder einem ausländischen Staatsangehörigen anmelden
- Ehrenamtliche Richterin oder ehrenamtlicher Richter (Schöffen) beim Strafgericht - berufen werden
- Einfahrt Fußgängerzone/Handwerkerhotline
- Electoral roll (local elections) - apply for entry or correction
- Electoral roll (local elections) - apply for registration when moving house
- Electoral roll (mayoral election) - apply for entry or correction
- Electoral roll (mayoral election) - apply for registration as a returnee
- Encourage state honouring of lifesavers
- Erschließungsbeiträge zahlen
- Events on public roads - apply for a permit and traffic order
- Extending a residence permit issued for training purposes
- Extending residence permits for students from countries outside the EU/EEA
F
- Flächennutzungsplan einsehen
- Full-time care - placing a foster child
- Fundsache abgeben oder nachfragen
G
- Gaststättengewerbe - Gestattung beantragen
- Gebäudeenergiegesetz (GEG)
- Geburt in öffentlicher oder privater Klinik oder Einrichtung dem Standesamt melden
- Geeignetheitsbescheinigung des Aufstellungsortes für Spielgeräte beantragen
- Gewerbsmäßige Schaustellung von Personen - Erlaubnis beantragen
- Grundsicherung im Alter und bei Erwerbsminderung beantragen
- Grundstücksanschluss an Wasserversorgungs- und Abwasserbeseitigungseinrichtungen - Beiträge zahlen
- Grundstücksvermessung - Grenzfeststellung beantragen
- Grundstückswertermittlung beantragen
- Guarding trade - apply for a permit
H
- Häusliche Gewalt - Platzverweis, Wohnungsverweis, Rückkehrverbot und Annäherungsverbot erwirken
- Have your travelling trade card extended
- Hilfe zur Pflege beantragen
- Hundehaltung - Namensänderung mitteilen
- Hundesteuer - Ersatzmarke beantragen
I
- Identity card - apply for a provisional identity card
- Identity card - apply for issue due to change of name on marriage
- Identity card - apply for issue due to loss
- Identity card - apply for issue due to name change on divorce
- Identity card - Change address
- Immission control - Submit measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants at cremation facilities in accordance with 27. BImSchV
- Immission control - Submit measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants at cremation facilities in accordance with 27. BImSchV
- Information from the civil register - group information to parties or groups of voters
- Information gemäß Art. 13 der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung für meldepflichtige Personen
- Informationen für Studierende
- Issue SEPA direct debit mandate
K
- Keeping a fighting dog - apply for a behaviour test
- Keeping a fighting dog - apply for a licence
- Keeping a fighting dog - proof of expertise
- Kindertageseinrichtungen - Kostenbeitragsermäßigung oder Kostenbeitragsbefreiung beantragen
- Kirchenzugehörigkeit und Kirchensteuer - Kirchenaustritt erklären
- Konstanzer Sozial- & Pflegefamilienpass
- Konzessionsverträge, Löschwasservereinbarung und Gestattungsvertrag mit ABBs
L
- Lebenspartnerschaft - Umwandlung in eine Ehe beantragen
- Lebenspartnerschaftsnamen bestimmen
- License for pawnbrokers
- Liegenschaftskataster - Einsicht oder Auszug beantragen
- Liegenschaftskataster - Errichtung eines Gebäudes melden
M
- Make use of educational counselling
- Meldebescheinigung beantragen
- Melderegister - Auskunft beantragen (einfach)
- Melderegister - Übermittlungssperre bei Alters- und Ehejubiläen beantragen
N
- Namen nach der Scheidung ändern
- Neubeantragung Bootsliegeplatz (Bootsliegeplätze)
- Notify the registry office of the child's name after birth
O
- Old-age pension - applying for a pension on early retirement
- Open-Air-Musikveranstaltung
- Order natural burial
- Organising trade fairs, exhibitions and markets on a commercial basis
P
- Parkerleichterungen für besondere Gruppen schwerbehinderter Menschen beantragen ("orangefarbener Parkausweis")
- Parkerleichterungen für Menschen mit schweren Behinderungen beantragen ("blauer Parkausweis")
- Parking permit exemption, parking concessions for businesses (e.g. craftsmen's parking permit)
- Passport - Apply for a change of residence
- Passport - apply for a temporary passport
- Passport - apply for replacement due to loss
- Passport - apply for the first time or after expiry
- Passport - applying for a second passport
- Passport - applying for the first time for the child
- Passport - reapplying for a passport due to name change on divorce
- Passport - reapplying for a passport due to name change on marriage
- Permanent Residence-EU - Apply for a Permit
- Permit as a bookkeeping assistant
- Personalausweis - Abholung
- Personalausweis - Deutsche mit Wohnsitz im Ausland
- Personalausweis erstmalig oder nach Ablauf beantragen
- Plakatierung an Straßen - Genehmigung (Sondernutzungserlaubnis) beantragen
- Planfeststellungsverfahren zur Verkehrswegeplanung beantragen
- Population register - request group information
- Pre-registration of the marriage
- Preventing forced marriages
- Private fireworks - apply for an exemption from the ban on setting off fireworks
- Prostitution trade - applying for a permit
- Protection against animal diseases - Show animal disease
R
- Ratte melden
- Register a business
- Register marriage
- Register of residents - apply for information (extended)
- Register of voters (Bundestag election) - applying for registration of Germans living abroad
- Register of voters (European elections) - Apply for registration of EU citizens living in Germany
- Register of voters (European elections) - applying for registration of Germans living abroad
- Register of voters (European elections) - applying for registration of Germans living in Germany
- Register of voters (municipal elections) - Apply for registration as a returnee
- Register residence
- Register water connection
- Register your residence as your main residence
- Registering the dog license fee
- Reisepass - Abholung
- Reisepass - Deutsche mit Wohnsitz im Ausland
- Rentenanträge
- Report home birth to the registry office
- Request approval for the relocation or modification of telecommunication lines
- Request assistance from the youth welfare office
- Request birth certificate
- Request cremation
- Request education in a day group
- Request exemption from the Law on Sundays and Public Holidays
- Request issuance of a mortuary passport
- Request temporary reception of children and young people in a safe place
- Request use of the road surface during construction
- Requesting an excerpt from the Central Trade Register
- Requesting the excavation of a road for pipe laying
- Reregistering within the municipality
- Residence - Notify change of main residence
- Residence permit for third-country nationals - Apply for a Mobiler-ICT card
- Residence permit for workers from third countries - Apply for ICT card
- Residence requirement - apply for cancellation
- Reunification for family reasons (additional family members) - Apply for a residence permit
- Reunification for family reasons (with foreigners) - Apply for a residence permit
- Reunification for family reasons (with Germans) - Apply for a residence permit
- Roadworks on public roads - apply for a traffic order
- Rückerstattung von Abwassergebühren
S
- Sammelliste als Reiseerleichterung für Schülerinnen und Schüler beantragen
- Schadensmeldung - Straßenschaden melden
- Setting up a prohibition of stopping zone
- Settlement permit
- Shortening the rest period
- Show building project in the notification procedure
- Show death
- Show travelling trade for activities not requiring a travel trade card
- Show use of pyrotechnic effects on tours
- Sondernutzungserlaubnis für Straßenmusik / Straßenkunst
- Sorgeerklärungen abgeben
- Special use of roads outside the locality - applying for permission
- Special use of roads within the locality - applying for permission
- Special uses on public roads - applying for a permit and traffic order
- STÄRKE state programme - information for parents
- Sterbefall im Ausland - Aufnahme in das deutsche Sterberegister beantragen
- Straußwirtschaft - Show operation
- Submit a citizens' petition
- Submit a declaration of fulfilment for compliance with the requirements of the Building Energy Act during the construction of buildings
- Submit a residents' petition
T
- Tätigkeit als Tagespflegeperson - Erlaubnis zur Kindertagespflege beantragen
- Trade in weapons - apply for a licence
- Trade register - apply for information
- Trade tax - submitting a declaration
- Trades requiring inspection
V
- Veranstaltung eines Wanderlagers anzeigen
- Verlängerung Bootsliegeplatz (Bootsliegeplätze)
- Verpachtung von Kleingärten (Kleingarten)
- Verpflichtungserklärung abgeben
- Versammlung anmelden
- Volunteer fire brigade - Become a member
- Vorkaufsrecht der Gemeinde
- Voters' register (Bundestag election) - applying for registration of Germans living in Germany