Bakum
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Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ' N , 8 ° 12' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Vechta | |
| Height : | 31 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 78.72 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 6475 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 82 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 49456 | |
| Primaries : | 04446, 05438, 04441 | |
| License plate : | VEC | |
| Community key : | 03 4 60 001 | |
| Community structure: | 14 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Kirchstrasse 3 49456 Bakum |
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| Mayor : | Tobias Averbeck ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Bakum in the district of Vechta | ||
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Bakum is the smallest municipality in the district of Vechta in the Oldenburger Münsterland in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).
geography
Geographical location
Bakum lies on the southern edge of the Cloppenburger Geest . The municipality is traversed by a number of Geest brooks, u. a. the Bakumer Bach and the Schierenbach, which mainly flow towards the Hase in southern and western directions . The landscape is determined by arable land, the topography is flat and moves at heights between 25 and 38 m above sea level .
Geology and hydrogeology
Bakum is located in the North German Plain . The area around Bakum consists mainly of glazio-fluvial deposits, which consist primarily of loamy and sandy deposits from the Pleistocene . Drilling showed that the top soil layer is 5-7 m thick. This layer is underlain by an approximately 10 m thick loamy and marl-like sediment layer. Sandy layers at a depth of 25–30 m form a high-yield aquifer for pumping groundwater . The top aquifer is at a depth of 2–6 m.
Community structure
The municipality of Bakum consists of the main town of Bakum and the associated localities of Büschel, Carum, Daren, Elmelage, Harme, Hausstette, Lohe, Lüsche , Märschendorf , Molkenstraße, Schledehausen, Vestrup and Westerbakum.
Neighboring municipalities and places
Neighboring towns, starting from the north in a clockwise direction, are the municipality of Emstek , the districts of Langförden and Lutten in Vechtau , the town of Vechta , the town of Lohne , the town of Dinklage , the town of Essen and the town of Cappeln .
| Cappeln (10 km) | Emstek (11 km) | Langförden (6 km) | |
| Food (17 km) |
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Lutten (10 km) | |
| Dinklage (10 km) | Lohne (9 km) | Vechta (6 km) |
The distance information relates to the distance to the town center.
climate
Temperate maritime climate influenced by humid northwest winds from the North Sea . On a long-term average, the air temperature in Bakum reaches 8.5–9.0 ° C and about 700 mm of precipitation falls . Between May and August, an average of 20-25 summer days ( climatological term for days on which the maximum temperature exceeds 25 ° C) can be expected.
history
After Charlemagne built nine mission districts from 780 AD to Christianize the conquered Saxons , Abbot Gerbert Castus - the apostle of the Oldenburger Münsterland - founded the first parishes in the area from the Visbek mission cell . One of these is the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist Bakum, the oldest church to be founded in the south-west of Lerigau .
The first officially mentioned farms were in the year 890 in today's Elmelage and Hausstette and around 970 in today's Carum. In the 11th century the name Becheim appears for the first time, which then changed to Bakum via Bachum, which can be considered a Latinized form of the name.
Up until the 13th century, there were nine noble residences in the Bakum municipality. After that, the number of seats was reduced to one, Gut Daren. The fortress Lohburg in Lohe, a robber baron's castle surrounded by a swampy and impassable valley , was destroyed in 1374 by troops of the Münster bishop Florence von Wevelinghoven because of its dubious reputation . When the von Voss family died out in the male line, the Bakum estate passed into non-aristocratic hands. An epitaph of the von Voss family can still be seen in the entrance to the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist.
The "Lagerbuch Amt Vechta" from 1769 mentions seven "knight seats" in the parish of Bakum (listed in the spelling of the time):
- the knight seat of Backum (owner: the von Ascheberg family )
- the knight's seat in Dahren (owner: the von Frydag family )
- the knight seats Harme and Norberding (owners: the von Galen family )
- the knight's seat Lohe (owner: the von dem Bussche family )
- the knight seat Sudholt (owners: the von Plettenberg family ) and
- the knight seat Sudholt Raden (owner: the catholic church)
religion
The vast majority of the residents are of Roman Catholic faith and form the parish of St. Johannes Baptist in Bakum. The churches of St. Vitus in Vestrup, St. Josef in Lüsche and St. Johannes Ev. in Carum are branch churches of the parish Bakum. The parish belongs to the Münster deanery Vechta. The Evangelical Lutheran Christians make up the Gethsemane parish. Your church is the Gethsemane Church , a Bartning-Notkirche D type . The Gethsemane parish belongs to the ev. Church district Oldenburger Münsterland.
Roman Catholic Parish Church of St. John Baptist
Evangelical Lutheran Gethsemane Church
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality of Bakum consists of 18 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 6001 and 7000 inhabitants. The 18 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
The full-time mayor Tobias Averbeck of the CDU is also entitled to vote in the municipal council.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:
| Political party | Seats | change |
| CDU | 15th | + 1 |
| SPD | 2 | ± 0 |
| AfD | 1 | + 1 |
A special feature in this community is the high proportion of CDU voters. In local elections, for example, the election result has never fallen below 80%. In the European elections in 2004 the CDU won 83.17% of all votes cast. The Greens could not win a seat in the 2011 local election with 233 votes.
mayor
In 2005 Hans Lehmann (CDU), who has been in office since 1987, was elected as the first full-time mayor . On September 22, 2013, at the same time as the general election in Bakum, Tobias Averbeck (CDU) was elected as the new mayor with 79.40 percent of the votes cast. He has been in office since December 1, 2013.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality of Bakum shows a blue bucket helmet with yellow fittings and a pair of red wings in yellow . At the top between the wings there is a blue cross or slope.
The coat of arms is based on the old Oldenburg colors yellow and red, which are also the old Munster colors, in connection with the new Oldenburg blue.
flag
The flag and colors of the municipality of Bakum are yellow-red.
Culture and sights
Buildings
Churches
Catholic:
- St. Johannes Baptist in Bakum, from 1906, neo-Gothic
- St. Vitus in Vestrup, church from 1772, tower from 1853/56, pulpit from 1591
- St. Johannes Evangelist in Carum, from 1890/91
- St. Josef in Lüsche, from 1864/65, expanded around 1934
Evangelical:
- Gethsemane Church, from 1951, a Bartning emergency church
Village building
- Bakum:
- Old grain distillery
- Historic bakery, rebuilt by the Bakum Heimatverein
- Vestrup: Village with many preserved, half-timbered farms and outbuildings on the cobblestone village street of Vestrup, lined with old trees. In September 2001, Vestrup won the silver medal in the federal decision for “ Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future”.
Nobility seats
- House Daren in the village of the same name, as the only one of nine aristocratic residences in Bakum that is still owned by its noble builders, the von Frydag family . In its current form, the manor house was built in 1752 by Georg Wilhelm Freiherr von Frydag. It is said that his brother-in-law, the baron of lies Hieronymus von Münchhausen , demonstrated his equestrian tricks on the staircase of the Daren house. His sister Anna was Frydag's second wife. Frydag , who came from Gödens , inherited the property from his first wife, Sophia Johanna von Schade , who died in childbirth in 1742 . Her father Otto Schade zu Huntlosen became the heir of his maternal uncle, Caspar Herbord Kobrinck , in 1728 . The Kobrincks, in turn, owned Daren since the end of the 15th century, in part with the Lords of Lutten , for their part probably as heirs to the Lords of Südholte (Sudholt), who had built the moated castle in the second half of the 14th century. There is a brickwork museum on the grounds of the Daren estate . (The " Olfry " brickyard is part of the estate.)
Parks and forests
A village park was laid out north-northwest of the parish church, through which the Bakumer Bach flows. Shortly before it flows into the Fladder Canal, the stream in Harme feeds a pond popular with anglers, around which a hiking trail with a fish trail leads.
In the far south-east of Bakum, several hiking trails run between the hiking parking lots on Vechtaer Straße and Bokerner Damm, along the Spredaer Bach and the Fladder Canal, partly through the Darener Forest, partly through the open landscape. In addition to the 187 hectare forest of the Daren estate, the 30 hectare Harmer forest is also under landscape protection.
Nature reserves
The 40 hectare nature reserve Lüscher Polder lies between the villages of Lüsche and Carum in the west of the municipality . The floodplain has a water surface of around 30 hectares and, with its varied water and vegetation structures, offers a habitat for numerous animal species.
societies
The cultural life in the municipality of Bakum is strongly influenced by around 40 clubs. In Bakum there are three sports clubs, two home clubs, three music clubs and several choir communities.
Sports
The municipality of Bakum offers numerous opportunities for cycling and hiking. Bike and hiking trails are well marked. Two forests and several inland waterways are in the municipality. The three sports clubs SC Bakum, SV Carum and BW Lüsche are also important for local sport.
Regular events
Since 2002 the "UMSONST & DRAUSSEN" Staatsforsten Open-Air took place in Bakum / Büschel. The festival, which has been held in Staatsforsten for the first time since 1986 , was committed to being free and giving newcomer bands and bands from the region an opportunity to perform in front of a larger audience. The festival held annually at the beginning of August attracted up to 5000 visitors. In July 2017, this type of festival took place for the last time so far.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Bakum plays as in the entire Oldenburger Münsterland the local agriculture in spite of structural change in recent years continues to be the dominant role in the economy. Agricultural businesses form the basis of the local food industry. In addition, the local economy is characterized by small and medium-sized craft and service companies.
Established businesses
Suding Beton- & Kunststoffwerk GmbH has its headquarters in Lüsche . Suding employs over 200 people at several locations. There is also the agricultural grain distillery Meistermann (grain distillery since 1793). The Hoping agricultural machinery company employs over 50 people.
traffic
Bakum is located directly on the A 1 federal motorway , which provides good connections to the Ruhr area and the North Sea . The airports of Bremen and Münster / Osnabrück are by road within easy reach. For international flights, the airports in Hanover and Hamburg are particularly suitable , both of which can be reached in around three hours by car.
Local public transport is served by the two bus routes 611 and 694 of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Vechta . Furthermore, the district of Vechta offers Moobil +, a demand-driven local transport offer as a supplement and feeder to the timetable- related offers of the local public transport and the NordWestBahn .
The station in Bakum was shut down together with the Vechta-Cloppenburg line in 1965. The tracks on the line have now been dismantled. The next train stations are in Vechta and Lohne . The ticket sale takes place in the neighboring town of Lohne in a DB agency in the pedestrian zone.
education
There are two primary schools and one high school as well as four kindergartens in the Bakum municipality. A branch of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover is also located in Bakum .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Carl Ludwig Niemann (1830–1895), Catholic pastor, historian and local researcher
- Heribert Ostendorf (born December 7, 1945 in Vestrup ), legal scholar
- Bernhard Sieverding (1896–1973), farmer and politician (center), Member of the Oldenburg state parliament
Personalities associated with the community
- Ansgar Brinkmann (born July 5, 1969 in Vechta ), footballer, grew up in Bakum
literature
- Werner Kuper: Becheim became Bakum . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1991 . Vechta 1990, pp. 5-26
- Clemens Arkenstette: The medieval parish Bakum . Bakum 1992
- Franz-Josef Göttke: The streets in Bakum: their names and their meaning; a contribution to the local history of the Bakum community . Bakum 2002
- Loher village community: Hello, I'm from Lohe - Loher village chronicle 2019 . Lohe 2019
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Bakum
- Gene wiki: House Bakum
- Bike tour “Churches around Bakum” - more information about the churches than on the Bakum parish website
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Bakum municipality. Numbers, dates and facts. . Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ^ Bakum municipality. Numbers, dates and facts. . Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- ↑ Michael Bönte: Abbot Gerbert Castus - A missionary from the second row. Church site ((former) online newspaper of the Münster diocese). October 29, 2004 ( Memento of May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved from the web archive on October 3, 2017.
- ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ↑ Genwiki: Bakum (Vechta district)
- ↑ Chapter The noble houses in the offices of Vechta and Cloppenburg . In: CL Niemann: The Oldenburg Münsterland in its historical development . Volume 2: Until the union with the Duchy of Oldenburg . Oldenburg: Schulzesche Hof-Buchhandlung and Hof-Buchdruckerei, 1891, pp. 77–84 ( online )
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on February 2, 2017.
- ↑ 2016 election results , accessed on February 2, 2017.
- ↑ Election results of the 2011 municipal council , accessed on February 2, 2017.
- ↑ Oldenburgische Volkszeitung of September 23, 2013, p. 9
- ↑ a b Main statutes of the municipality of Bakum ( memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 8, 2014
- ↑ Homepage of the Catholic Church Congregation St. Johannes Baptist Bakum
- ↑ Franz Hellbernd: Münsterländische castles and noble houses , 1963 ( Memento of 19 April 2014 Internet Archive )
- ^ House Daren on the website of the community Daren
- ^ Sabine Grimm: Nobility Lines. The Lords of Frydag . Norderstedt 2011. p. 120
- ↑ Olfry Brickwork Museum , accessed on October 1, 2017.
- ↑ moobil + , accessed on July 3, 2016
- ^ Bakum municipality. Housing and family / kindergartens and schools. . Retrieved July 18, 2014.
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