Filsum

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Empty
Joint municipality :	Jümme
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.76 km 2
Residents:	2151 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26849
Area code :	04957
License plate :	LER
Community key :	03 4 57 008
LOCODE :	DE FIM
Association administration address:	Rathausring 8–12 ; 26849 Filsum
Mayor :	Bernhard Gathen ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Filsum in the district of Leer

Aerial view of Filsum

Brückenfehn on the Nordgeorgsfehn Canal

Filsum is an East Frisian municipality in northwest Germany . It belongs to the joint municipality of Jümme , whose administrative seat is the municipality.

geography

Geographical location

The place is about 30 km from the border with the Netherlands and 50 km from the North Sea coast. The Jümme flows through the community. In the municipality of Filsum there is a direct connection to the B 72 and A 28 .

Neighboring communities

Filsum borders on Uplengen , Detern , Nortmoor , Holtland and Hesel .

Community structure

In addition to the actual town, Filsum also consists of the districts Ammersum , Brückenfehn , Busboomsfehn , Lammertsfehn (until May 14, 1934 Lammersfehn ) and Stallbrüggerfeld .

history

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Paulus Church celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2000. It has around 1750 members. The Filsum community is thus strongly Protestant, as is the rest of East Frisia. In addition, the work of the parish is supplemented by the regional church communities in Filsum and Lammertsfehn and the work of the EC ( Decided for Christ ). In addition, a free Christian community (Free Bible Church ) has been founded in the district of Lammertsfehn . Until the 1980s there was a Catholic parish in Filsum , but it was given up due to a lack of members.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform, the independent communities Ammersum (with Brückenfehn), Filsum (with Busboomsfehn and Stallbrüggerfeld) and Lammertsfehn were merged to form the new community Filsum on January 1, 1973.

Explanation of the place name

The place name probably goes back to an early Germanic, perhaps even pre-Germanic place name. Its basis consists of the old clan about "pour, flow, (over) flood". These include, for example, Baltic words such as “pilvė”, meaning “silt, silt”, “pìlti”, meaning “pouring”, “pilēt”, meaning “trickling”, “at-pīles”, meaning “swamp areas that are not in winter freeze over ". If there is a “p-” in a non-Germanic name, it has become “f-” or “v-” in Germanic and German.

politics

Municipal council

The Filsum 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
CDU	56.0%	7th	+ 4.7%	0
SPD	30.1%	4th	+ 0.5%	0
General voter community (AWG)	6.8%	1	−7.2%	−1
FDP	3.3%	1	−1.8%	+1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 70.2%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison: in the previous local elections on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 61.8%.

mayor

In 2016, the local council elected Gerhard Bruns (CDU) as honorary mayor of the Filsum community. His predecessor was Margret Schulte-Cramer (CDU), who took office on November 9, 2011, but did not run again in 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : In green a silver horse's head with black bridle.

Community partnerships

There is a partnership with the municipality of Steintanz-Warnow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Personalities

The horse whisperer and author Tamme Hanken (1960–2016), known nationwide through radio and television , came from this place and had his horse rehabilitation center here.

Until 2006 Filsum was the winter quarters of the famous Charles Knie circus . After the circus was sold, the winter quarters moved to Papenburg. The former owner Charles Knie then emigrated to Australia.

traffic

The station Filsum was at the Oldenburg-Leer railway . In the meantime the trains pass the place without stopping.

Filsum is connected to the district town of Leer and Augustfehn in the district of Ammerland via the line 623 from Weser-Ems-Bus .

literature

Gerda Berends : Koopmann Alberts Wicht in Filsum - memories from my childhood and youth 1929 to 1949 , published by epubli GmbH, Berlin by Bernd Berends, ISBN 978-3-8442-6114-1 .

Web links

Commons : Filsum - collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 266

^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .

^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on July 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 .

^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 29, 2016.

↑ ^a ^b Samtgemeinde Jümme: Local council election Filsum 2016 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / juemme.eu

↑ hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 29, 2016.

↑ Samtgemeinde Jümme - Local Council Election Filsum 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / juemme.eu

↑ Filsum municipal council ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2016. @1@ 2

^ OZ-Online: A crystal clear thing for the CDU , accessed on December 29, 2016.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 266

[3] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .

[4] Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on July 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 .

[5] Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 29, 2016.