First steps in Quakenbrück Youth Migration Service for Teenagers Family and Education (between 12 and 27 years old) Caritas | Bürgermeister-Kreke-Straße 3 | 49593 Bersenbrück Did you come to Germany as a family or with an underage Registration Monday: 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm child? Every family member that lives here has to be  After you have moved into a flat or another form of and with an appointment registered in the Citizens Bureau. Children from the age of 0- accommodation you have to go to the Citizens Bureau Phone: 05439 / 94 23 60 Are you new in Quakenbrück? 6 can be looked after in a day-nursery, a kindergarten or by a (Bürgerbüro Samtgemeindeverwaltung Artland, Markt 1, E-Mail: [email protected] childminder. 49610 Quakenbrück) and register yourself. In order to do so

you need an identity card or a passport and a Confirmation of General Counselling Service (Diakonisches Werk Bramsche) For further information please contact: Residence from your landlord. Lötzener Straße 5a | 49610 Quakenbrück Tuesday: 10:00 am until 12:00 pm  After that you will receive a Certificate of Residence that you Family Service Office will need as proof for work, for signing contracts or for the Thursday: 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm Lange Straße 29 | 49610 Quakenbrück Tax Office. Phone: 05431 / 90 61 83 Phone: 05431 / 182 - 401, -403, -205  Please keep your Confirmation of Residence and Tax-ID Monday until Friday: 9:00 am until 12:00 pm safe. Migrant Advisory Center Administrative District Osnabrück Miss Stefanie Gelli | Am Schölerberg 1 | 49082 Osnabrück Thursday: 2:30 pm until 5:30 pm (during schooldays)  If you move to a new city inside Germany or leave Germany, Phone: 0541 / 50 14 00 00 or 0541 / 5 01 21 61 please inform the Citizens Bureau. E-Mail: [email protected] More information, offers and information centers for families  Please label your post box and your doorbell with your full can be found in the “Familienwegweiser” by the Information for your first orientation in name. Foreigners Office Administrative District Osnabrück Samtgemeinde Artland at www.artland.de/familienwegweiser Quakenbrück  While you are in Germany you should store your Birth Am Schölerberg 1 | 49082 Osnabrück Certificate (if it applies to you: Marriage Certificate, Decree of Monday to Friday: 8:00 am until 1:00 pm The German School System Divorce) at home. Thursday: 8:00 am until 5:30 pm The German school system starts with the primary school Phone: 0541 / 5 01 70 00 (classes 1-4). After that schoolchildren can go to the Communication E-Mail: [email protected] Oberschule (classes 5-10) or the Gymnasium (classes 5-13). Contact: Address:  You should bring someone to appointments or visits to Children from the age of 6 to 18 are legally obliged to attend Office for Social Integration Samtgemeinde Artland authorities who speaks English or German very well (free of Learning German, Language Classes school. Markt 2, Room 131 Markt 1 charge).

Phone: 05431 / 182 – 130 49610 Quakenbrück  Please do not sign contracts or something similar without  Colloquial German Classes Living and Neighbourhoods E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.artland.de fully understanding the content. In a case like that please  German Classes for Beginners and Advanced Learners

contact someone with knowledge of German to translate it  BAMF-Integration Course with 600 hours of German and 100 Looking for a Place to Live for you. hours about German history, culture, values and legal Opening Hours:  Do not hand original documents or letters from authorities to system Offers for accommodation can be found in the Bersenbrücker Monday to Friday 8:00 am until 12:30 pm someone else (unless it is required).  Literacy Courses Kreisblatt, in free weekly papers or online

Monday and Tuesday 2:00 pm until 4:30 pm  It is not necessary to hire a provider of service for filling out  Language courses especially for women or mothers with Thursday 2:00 pm until 5:30 pm or translating documents. included child care - www.immoscout.de  If you need a translator you can request someone from local - www.immonet.de - www.noz.de/wohnwelt authorities. VHS Osnabrücker Land (Community College)/ Artland For more information go to www.artland.de - www.baugenossenschaft-lkos.de Branch

or follow the QR-Code: Info Centers and learning German Friedrichstraße 37a | 49610 Quakenbrück The so-called Warmmiete (WM) consists of the Kaltmiete Phone: 05431 / 9 66 98 66 (KM) and the Nebenkosten (NK). Costs for electricity and Monday: 9:00 am until 4:00 pm and Advisory Service (free of charge) sometime heating might not be included in the Warmmiete. Thursday: 9:30 am until 12:30 pm The Nebenkosten include monthly advance payments for During a consultation a suitable course based on your Migration Consultation for Adults/ Caritas water, possibly heating and a shared payment for garbage knowledge will be chosen. Franziskushaus | Markt 4 | 49610 Quakenbrück collection, janitor etc. Once a year you will receive an

Wednesday: 9:30 am until 12:30 pm overview of your actual usage from your landlord or a

and with an appointment building manager.

Phone: 05439 / 94 23 60

Every month the so-called “Rundfunkbeitrag” has to be paid

for every apartment. At the moment the fee is 17,50 € per

month and is used for public broadcasting corporations. If you search for an apartment with an estate agent he/she will – Englisch – charge you for the work (Maklerprovision). After you have

found an apartment it is common to pay a security deposit District Office „Neustadt“ Beratungsstelle für mobile Beschäftigte bei Arbeit und Leben Leisure Time and Mobility amounting to 1-3 Kaltmieten. When you want to move out of You live in Quakenbrück Neustadt and have ideas on how to in Nds. Nord gGmbH the apartment the security deposit will be, under certain improve quality of life in the district? If you have ideas or Klävemannstraße 1 | 26122 Oldenburg conditions, returned to you. questions about living in the “Neustadt” or questions about Daniele Reim (German, Romanian and English) Post Office: the project “Soziale Stadt”, the District Office is the perfect Phone: 0441 / 9 24 90 – 21 Mobile: 0151 – 12 34 47 51 Bahnhofstraße 6 | 49610 Quakenbrück Waste Separation contact. E-Mail: [email protected] Monday to Friday: 8:30 am until 12:00 pm, Maria Krumova (German, Bulgarian and English) 2:30 pm until 5:30 pm Saturday: 9:00 am until 12:00 pm Residual District Office Quakenbrück Neustadt Mobile: 0151 – 70 83 26 93 Waste Paper Yellow Container Organic Waste At the Post Office you will receive information about costs for Container (The Green Point) Waste Friedrichstraße 37a | 49610 Quakenbrück Container If you completed school or your studies outside of Germany letters and parcels for foreign countries. Thursday: 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm and with an appointment Phone: 0203 / 3 06 49 87 and want to credit these graduations, please contact: papers, ash, yoghurt containers, foliage, shrub E-Mail: [email protected] Train Station: catalogues, sweepings, margarine and grass Anerkennungsberatung des IQ-Netzwerkes BUS GmbH in Am Bahnhof 1 | 49610 Quakenbrück magazines, vacuum containers, cuttings, Banking and Opening Bank Accounts Bersenbrück Trains from the Nordwestbahn go to Oldenburg, paper flour bags, cleaner chocolate potting soil, Wilhelmshaven and Osnabrück every hour. old paper bags, wrappers, spray vegetable You can open a bank account at any bank here in Bahnhofstraße 41 | 49593 Bersenbrück

notebooks, wallpaper, bottles, cans, tubes scraps, Quakenbrück or online with internet based banks. For Team: Katharina Loose, Lea Pooschke, Lena Gottschlich, Busses: empty cardboard light bulbs, made from teabags opening a bank account you will need: Mogem Omari boxes, envelopes diapers aluminium, screw Busses (VOS) to Bersenbrück and Fürstenau via Nortrup Phone: 0541 / 69 29 – 630, -632, -633, -634 tops E-Mail: [email protected], [email protected], and Menslage and busses from the Bürgerbusverein  Pass port or identification card Badbergen e.V. between Badbergen and Quakenbrück stop  Certificate of Residence [email protected], [email protected] at Green waste from your garden can be disposed of at the  Maybe a job contract Grünplatz Quakenbrück: Health Care System  Bus Stop Neuer Markt

Account conditions or costs might vary from one bank to  Bus Stop Bahnhof Quakenbrück (Train station) Grünplatz Quakenbrück another. Please inform yourself or with help from a translator You will receive health care in every member state of the  Detailed bus plans can be found at www.vos.info or Niedersachsenstraße | 49610 Quakenbrück about the conditions. European Union with a European Health Care Card (EHIC). www.buergerbus-badbergen.de/fahrplan-und-preise or as Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 2:00 pm until 6:00 pm If possible, please take out a Travel Health Insurance in your print outs at the town hall. Saturday: 9:00 am until 3:00 pm Work and Apprenticeship home country. If you have a German health insurance, you are able to insure your husband/wife and your children Leisure Time Activities: For more information about waste separation, glass for together in a Family Health Insurance. If you have no work or are looking for work, please contact  City Museum (Markt 7 | 49610 Quakenbrück) recycling, bulky waste, hazardous waste etc. please visit: the following authorities: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 2:00 pm until 5:00 pm www.awigo.de Doctors, Hospital, Emergencies www.stadtmuseum-quakenbrueck.de Living in a Neighbourhood Agentur für Arbeit Bersenbrück  Information about doctors, pharmacies etc. in the  Samtgemeinde Library (Markt 5 | 49610 Quakenbrück) Samtgemeinde Artland can be found in the Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9:00 am until 12:30 pm,  Please show consideration to your neighbours and offer your Am Bahnhof 15 | 49593 Bersenbrück “Bürgerinformationen 2018 – 2021”: Tuesday, Thursday: 3:00 pm until 6:30 pm help if needed. Phone: 0800 / 4 55 55 00 www.artland.de/buergerinformationen www.samtgemeinde-buecherei.de  Talk to each other and treat each other with respect. Monday to Wednesday and Friday: 8:00 am until 12:00 pm Thursday: 8:00 am until 6:00 pm  Christliches Krankenhaus Quakenbrück  Out- and Indoor Swimming Pool (Jahnstraße 20 |  Try to avoid noisy activities like mowing your lawn or loud Danziger Straße 2| 49610 Quakenbrück 49610 Quakenbrück) www.artland.de/schwimmbad music during the following times: midday (Mittagspause) from MaßArbeit kAöR – Außenstelle Quakenbrück  If you have an emergy, that happens outside of office hours  Cinema Schauburg (Schiphorst 4 | 49610 Quakenbrück) 1 pm until 3 pm, at night from 10 pm until 6 am and Sundays. Friedrichstraße 43 | 49610 Quakenbrück and is very urgent, you can go to the emergency service at www.kino-quakenbrueck.de  Ask your landlord about the houserules (quiet times, cleaning Phone: 05431 / 85 17 70 the Christliches Krankenhaus Quakenbrück | Danziger the stairwell, taking care of the garden, airing rooms, etc.) Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8:00 am until 12:00 pm Straße 2 | 49610 Quakenbrück. More information about sport, culture or leisure time clubs  As a resident you are obliged to clean the sidewalk and most Thursday: 2:00 pm until 6:00 pm Phone: 116 – 117 can be found in the register of associations (Samtgemeinde importantly clear away snow and ice in the winter (with salt, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8:00 pm until 9:00 pm Artland): www.artland.de/vereinsregister sand or loose chippings) so that it is safe for others. If you have questions about your contract and your stay in Wednesday, Friday: 5:00 pm until 9:00 pm  Cleaning and repairing vehicles is only allowed on private Germany please contact: Saturday, Sunday, public holiday: 10:00 am until 12:00 pm, property and far away from stretches of water (e.g. rivers, 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm lakes).  Emergency Calls: 110 or 112 (Police, Fire Brigade, Rescue  For more information please visit: Service) www.artland.de/zusammenleben