The name alone does not reveal the administrative level.
A municipality or city organises many local tasks. These include areas of public order. The public-order office or responsible municipal service can deal with certain disturbances in public spaces.
Exact names and divisions of responsibility vary. Berlin, for example, has district public-order offices. For the exam, the decisive point remains the connection to local administration.
The other three answers
Assign the other three offices to their respective areas.
Parish office
A parish office belongs to a church community. A religious parish is not the same as the political municipality and its administration.
Tax office
Tax offices are generally local authorities of state tax administration. Being located in a city does not make them departments of that city’s administration.
Foreign office
The Federal Foreign Office operates at federal level and concerns foreign policy and the foreign service. It is not a municipal office.
Being located locally does not mean being municipally organised.
Municipal, state and federal authorities can operate in the same city. Classification depends on which administration they belong to, not merely their postal address.
The exam answer is not a complete list of your public-order office’s responsibilities. Local and state rules govern a specific concern.
Municipal public-order service · City of Bonn ↗Public-order office → local administration. Tax office → state tax administration.
Distinguish an office’s location from its organisational level.
Three words for this question
- die Gemeindeverwaltungmunicipal administration
- The administration of a political municipality or city.
- das Ordnungsamtpublic-order office
- A local administrative office for certain public-order tasks.
- die Landesbehördestate authority
- An authority belonging to a federal state’s administration.