Country Baden-Württemberg (0800) — Central locations (8112)

In the central locations, infrastructure facilities, goods and services of public and private nature are held as a bundled offer, which is or can be perceived by the inhabitants of this municipality and its defined catchment area. According to different offers and catchment areas, a system of central locations is defined nationwide in four hierarchical levels: 14 upper centres and 85 central centres (with their catchment areas = middle areas) in the LEP and a different number of sub- and small centres in the regional plans. The LEP therefore does not define the sub- and small centres itself, but the conditions for expulsion. Plan sets 2.5.1 to 2.5.11 LEP 2002 The central structure of the regional development plan into upper centres and central centres with central areas (see object type middle areas) as well as in the sub-centres and small centres defined in the regional plans (see property type of the respective region) is intended to consolidate the decentralised settlement and economic structure of the country and support and coordinate the desired settlement development. — Upper centres are intended to ensure the supply of an interlinking area of several hundred thousand inhabitants (usually the region) with highly qualified and specialised facilities and jobs — central centres should be developed as sites of a wide range of higher quality facilities and workplaces so that they can meet the high specialised needs of their interdependence/medium range of at least 35,000 inhabitants. (See also Object type Midrange)