Brinkum (East Frisia)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Brinkum
Brinkum (East Frisia)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Brinkum highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Empty
Joint municipality : Hesel
Height : 8 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.52 km 2
Residents: 803 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 145 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 26835
Area code : 04950
License plate : LER
Community key : 03 4 57 003
Association administration address: Rathausstrasse 14
26835 Hesel
Website : www.hesel.de
Mayor : Bernhard Janssen (AWG / OWG)
Location of the municipality of Brinkum in the district of Leer
Borkum Lütje Horn (gemeindefrei) Bunde Weener Westoverledingen Rhauderfehn Leer (Ostfriesland) Ostrhauderfehn Detern Jemgum Moormerland Nortmoor Brinkum Neukamperfehn Holtland Firrel Schwerinsdorf Filsum Uplengen Hesel Landkreis Leer Landkreis Leer (Borkum) Niedersachsen Landkreis Emsland Königreich der Niederlande Emden Landkreis Aurich Landkreis Wittmund Landkreis Friesland Landkreis Ammerland Landkreis Cloppenburgmap
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Old school in Brinkum; used today as a village community center

Brinkum is a municipality in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony and is part of the Hesel municipality .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located about 5 kilometers southwest of Hesel. The next largest city is Leer , about 8 kilometers southwest of Brinkum.

Neighboring communities

In the north Brinkum borders on the municipality of Holtland , in the east on a small piece of the municipality Filsum , in the south on the municipality Nortmoor and in the west on the district town of Leer (East Friesland) .

Community structure

The community consists of the districts Brinkum and Meerhausen.

Origin of the place name

Old names of the place are 1388 Brincham , 1408 Brinchem and 1645 Brinckum . "Brink" means "hill in the meadow area", "overgrown plateau", "overgrown alluvium in the river bed", "anger", "assembly (splatz)", "delimiting height", "edge", "bank".

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Brinkum consists of nine councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The local council elected the council member Bernhard Janssen as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

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

Political party Proportional votes Number of seats Change voices Change seats
Local electoral community Brinkum / Meerhausen (OWG) 100% 9 0% 0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 65.3%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 10, 2011, the turnout was 55.8%.

mayor

Bernhard Janssen (AWG / OWG) was re-elected as mayor in the election on September 11, 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by tin cut; above in silver two green four-leaf clovers, below in green a silver jug, ornamented with two black zigzag friezes. "

The battlements symbolize the castle that used to stand in Brinkum. The jug points to the numerous archaeological finds in the area and represents the early settlement of the region. The shamrocks represent agriculture.

Sports

  • SV Frisia Brinkum

traffic

Brinkum can be reached via the federal highway 28 , junction Leer-Ost and the federal highway 436 . The nearest train station is in Leer, where two lines meet: the Emsland line from Münster to Emden and the line from Oldenburg to Groningen in the Netherlands .

Web links

Commons : Brinkum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Brinkum City Council , accessed on December 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Municipality of Brinkum - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election (PDF; 17 kB), accessed on December 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Brinkum municipal council election 2011. In: sghesel.de. September 11, 2011, accessed December 28, 2016 .