Steimbke is also the seat of the ("collective municipality") Steimbke.

Unlike most municipalities in the district, it does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde - a kind of collective municipality.

The official medium for citizen information in Hundsangen is the collective municipality's weekly gazette.

The Jümme gives its name to the collective municipality of Jümme.

The first two remained in the collective municipality.

It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality.

If a municipality is inside a state that has no Regierungsbezirk and is not in a collective municipality it would become the third level.

It belongs to the collective municipality of Flotwedel with its seat in Wienhausen.

It is part of the collective municipality of Lachendorf.

It is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Elbtalaue.