Bingum

Bingum City of Leer (East Frisia) Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	1 m above sea level NN
Area :	8.88 km²
Residents :	1503  (2005)
Population density :	169 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26789
Area code :	0491
Location of Bingum in the city of Leer
Tower of the Lutheran Matthäikirche

Bingum is the only district of Leer (East Friesland) west of the Ems and thus in the Rheiderland . The place is connected by the Jann-Berghaus-Brücke with the Leeran core city and the Leeran district of Leerort . Bingum borders the communities of Weener and Jemgum .

In addition to the actual village of Bingum, the Bingum district also includes the two villages of Bingumgaste and Coldam . In addition, there are and still were some smaller places to live: Einhaus is a remnant of the village Weenermoor that migrated to the west . In the area of ​​the city of Weener, there are also the Tweehusen and Dreehusen residential areas, whose names have not been Germanized. Neubingum is the name of the new housing estate north of the old village that has been built since 1925. The farmsteads Nortmerfähr and Uthörn no longer exist today.

There is a primary school in Bingum, secondary schools are attended by the local students in Leer ( Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium , Teletta-Groß-Gymnasium , Fachgymnasium) or in Jemgum (Haupt- und Realschule Carl-Goerdeler-Schule). In the center of Bingum there is the Matthäikirche, one of the rare Lutheran churches in the Rheiderland , which shares a parish with the parishes in the neighboring Jemgum districts of Holtgaste and Pogum . There is also a sports club in Bingum, the BSV Bingum. Bingum also has a small Emshafen , which is mainly used by sports boats . It is protected from wind and waves by the small island of Bingumer Sand .

The coat of arms of Bingum adorns a historic brickworks , as there used to be numerous on the Ems. In the past, there were up to ten brick factories in Bingum alone. In front of the brickworks, a green shield base and a silver wave bar can be seen, which stand for green meadows and the Ems flowing past Bingum.

history

The settlement was first mentioned in a document as Binninghem around the year 900, but it is assumed that it was founded as early as the 7th or 8th century. In the following years, the place often had to struggle with the floods of the Ems. For a long time the village chiefs provided a family with the name Crumminga, after that it was the Sluiter family and the barons of Rheden. Later elected bulk masters presided over the place. The place suffered from various wars, such as the Geldrian Feud , the Thirty Years 'War and the Seven Years' War .

Until 1932 the community of Bingum belonged to the Weener district. Shortly before the seizure of power in 1933, more than half of the population had voted for the KPD or SPD .

The National Socialists had forced sterilizations carried out in Bingum . During the Second World War, there was a POW camp in Bingum with 25 inmates who had to do forced labor. After the war, relatively few refugees settled in Bingum.

Between 1948 and 1950 the Jann-Berghaus-Brücke was built, which since then has been the most important link with the city of Leer.

Until the regional reform in Lower Saxony , the village on the Ems was an independent municipality in the district of Leer . Since the incorporation on January 1, 1973, Bingum has gained many new residents through numerous new development areas, so that the population is now around 2000.

Bingum guests

Aerial view of Bingumgaste

Bingumgaste belongs to the district of Bingum and is therefore part of the city of Leer / Ostfriesland. It can be found for the first time on a map from 1589 as "Binningergast". These are grain fields belonging to Bingum, which are located on an elevated Geest island west of the village of Bingum. In 1823 there were 27 campfire sites with 151 inhabitants. In 1848 there were 21 residential buildings with the same number of inhabitants. At the end of 2008, 53 people lived in Bingumgaste in 23 residential buildings.

Einhaus is mentioned for the first time in 1823 and in 1824 it is also called "Eenhus". It is on the way from Bingumgaste through the Hammrich to Weener and means “single house”, probably in contrast to the other two residential areas on this way, which are called “Dreehusen” and “Tweehusen” and belong to the city of Weener. In 1823 there were six residents here, in 1848 there were four.

Coldam

Coldam is just south of the village of Bingum, on the road to Weener an der Ems. The place first appeared on a map in 1595. The place name means either a cold dam , in the sense of a dam that is no longer used , or a raised dam . In 1823 there were 106 people in Coldam and in 1848 there were 114 inhabitants in 17 buildings. Coldam has a privately owned arts center on a historic farm.

Personalities

• Bernhard Duhm (1847–1928), theologian
• Albrecht Janssen (1886–1972), writer
• Reinhold Mühring (1927–1985), politician

literature

• Wilhelm Lange: The families of the parish Bingum (1760-1900) . Upstalsboom-Gesellschaft, Aurich 1994, ISBN 3-925365-80-X (Ostfrieslands Ortssippenbücher, vol. 33; German Ortssippenbücher, vol. A 192).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .
2. ↑ Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape): Bingum , accessed on June 27, 2020 (PDF).