Farmsum
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 coat of arms |
| province |
 Groningen
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| local community |
 Delfzijl
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Area - land - water |
2.61 km 2 2.09 km 2 0.52 km 2 |
| Residents | 2,155 (Jan. 1, 2017) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 19 ′ N , 6 ° 56 ′ E |
| Important traffic route |
   
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| prefix | 0596 |
| Postcodes | 9723, 9932, 9934, 9936-9937, 9945, 9948 |
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Farmsum is an old village in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands and after incorporation it belongs to the city of Delfzijl . The place has about 2,155 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
history
The northwestern old part of the village is located on a former terp . Farmsum is mentioned in a document around the year 1000 as "Fretmarashem" and in 1228 as "Fermeshem". At the end of the 14th century the name was written as "Fyrmesen" and later as "Ferm Issum" and "Farremsem".
In the French era , Farmsum was briefly an independent municipality (around 1809). The French had the plan to build a large double fortress together with buildings in Delfzijl. But the plans were discarded. During the siege of Delfzijl (1813-1814) Farmsum suffered from the fire of French cannons and also because the field of fire had to be cleared.
Farmsum had its own train station. This stop served the village from 1910 to 1934 for trains on the Zuidbroek-Delfzijl line and from 1929 to 1941 for the Groningen-Weiwerd ("Woldjerspoor") line. In 1942 the station was demolished , except for the station café.
The Reformed Church of Farmsum was built in 1869 to replace the ruined medieval church. Another monument in the village is the Aeolus grain and peeling mill (named after the Greek god of wind ), which was moved to this place from its previous position on the Ems Canal in the 1970s .
In Farmsum there is a small community of immigrants from the Moluccas , called Molukkers in the Netherlands . They have lived in this place since 1951 (see also Moluccas in the Netherlands ).
Sons and daughters
- Dodo (II.) Zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (* 1641; † 1698 in Berlin), Brandenburg-Prussian statesman.
literature
- Art. Farmsum . In: Wiebe Jannes Formsma, Riektje Annie Luitjens-Dijkveld Stol, Adolf Pathuis: De Ommelander borgen en steenhuizen . Van Gorcum, Assen 1973, ISBN 90-232-1047-6 , pp. 107-113.
Web links
- Farmsum digital village (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on June 22, 2018 (Dutch)