Berumbur

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Aurich
Joint municipality :	Hage
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.42 km 2
Residents:	2773 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	432 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26524
Area code :	04936
License plate :	AUR, NOR
Community key :	03 4 52 003
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Main street 56 26524 Hage
Mayor :	Cornelius Peters ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Berumbur in the Aurich district

Berumbur is a municipality in the integrated municipality of Hage in the Aurich district in East Friesland . The municipality has 2773 inhabitants and covers an area of ​​6.42 square kilometers.

Place name

The first part of the community name refers to the Hager district of Berum and its castle in the immediate vicinity . The second part of the name, which can be found in many place names, means peasantry . Berumbur can therefore be translated as Berumer farmers or farmers of the castle / office of Berum . The first known mentions of the place name come from the 16th century. The spelling developed from Bherum Buer (1552) via Bherumsbuhr (1560?), Behrumbuhr (1719), Berumbuer (Coldewey card, 1730), Berembur (1740) to Berumbur .

geography

Berumbur lies on the northern edge of the East Frisian-Oldenburg Geestrück between marshland and former moorland . Its average height is between 1.5 and 2.5 m above sea level (NN).

location

Berumbur borders on the municipalities of Hage in the north and west, Großheide in the east and south and Halbemond in the south-west. In the northern part of the Lower Saxony state road 6, which leads from Wittmund to the north , runs through the place. The community's main street is Kreisstraße 204, which runs through Berumbur coming from Berumerfehn and joins Landesstraße 6 shortly before Berum .

Community structure

The Berumbur districts

The districts of Kleinheide , Berumbur and Holzdorf belong to the community . The largest district of Kleinheide is recorded in 1552 as "Lutke Haeyde" and was designated as "Heide" in 1599 and "Klein Heyde" in 1719. The name means "small heath (settlement)". Kleinheide is in the east of the municipality, while the eponymous district of Berumbur is in the northwest. The smallest district of the municipality, founded in 1805, is Holzdorf and is located in the southwest of the municipality.

Population development

year population 1821 551 1848 763 1871 812 1885 837 1905 938

year population 1925 893 1933 995 1939 1,045 (1,055) 1946 1,274 1950 1.313

year population 1956 1,235 1961 1,357 1970 1,632 2005 2,560 2011 2,580

politics

Municipal council

The Berumbur municipality council consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000 inhabitants. The 13 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats	Change voices	Change seats
SPD	49.11%	6th	−8.94%	−1
CDU	38.57%	5	+ 9.91%	+1
GREEN	7.03%	1	−0.85%	± 0
Free Association of Voters (FWG)	5.27%	1	−0.12%	± 0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 58.75%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous municipal election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 56.03%.

mayor

The local council elected the council member Cornelius Peters (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term in November 2016 . It is his fourth term in office.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A golden ear of wheat in blue, each with a six-pointed golden spur wheel ."

Justification of the coat of arms: The ear of corn reminds of the agricultural character of the municipality. The spur wheels can also be found in the coats of arms of Berumerfehn and Norden . It is generally assumed that they have their origin in the coat of arms of the noble Idzinga family, who lived in Lintel Castle near Norden. The Idzingas had numerous possessions in the Norderland and were considered the chiefs of this area, to which Berumbur also belonged, at least in part. The local history researcher Gudrun Dekker denies, however, that the Idzinga's coat of arms showed little spur wheels. In a Cologne city archive she discovered an Idzinga seal that only shows a Gothic eagle. The coat of arms is based on a design by the Münster heraldist Ulf Korn. It was adopted by the Berumbur municipality council on January 31, 1961 as the municipality's coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

Within the community there is a holiday home complex with more than 600 units, directly on a large gravel lake, which - although not approved as an official bathing area - is used for bathing at your own risk. There are also many fishing lakes in and around Berumbur, two of which are in Berumbur.

traffic

Berumbur is connected to the B 72 via the L 6 , which leads from Norddeich to the Cloppenburg junction of the A 1 .

literature

• Werner H. Schönherr: Between Marsh and Moor. History and stories from old Berumbur from the beginnings to the local reorganization in 1972 , Norden 2012, ISBN 978-3-939870-69-2 .

Web links

Commons : Berumbur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Old photos from Berum, Berumbur and Holzdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ For example Victorbur , Burmönken , Burhafe
3. ↑ Werner H. Schönherr: Between March and Moor. History and stories from the old Berumbur from the beginnings to the municipal reorganization in 1972 , Norden 2012, p. 8
4. ↑ ^{a b} Working group of the local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : Working group of the local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Berumbur, Samtgemeinde Hage, district Aurich (PDF file; 294 kB), accessed on September 22, 2011
5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 31, 2016.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Berumbur municipality - municipal council election 2016 , accessed on December 31, 2016.
7. ↑ hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 31, 2016.
8. ↑ Berumbur municipality - overall results of the 2011 municipal council election , accessed on December 31, 2016.
9. ^ OZ-Online: Cornelius Peters mayor again , accessed on December 31, 2016.
10. ↑ See Werner H. Schönherr: Between Marsch and Moor. History and stories from the old Berumbur from the beginning to the municipal redesign in 1972 , Norden 2012, p. 8 f.