Midlum (Wurster North Sea Coast)

Midlum Millm ( Low German ) Community Wurster North Sea Coast
Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′ 44 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 4"  E
Height :	0 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.07 km²
Residents :	1681  (2017)
Population density :	54 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27639
Area code :	04741
Location of Midlum in Lower Saxony
Midlum in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast

Midlum ( Low German Millm ) is a village in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven .

geography

location

The village of Midlum is located between the cities of Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven . In the village of Midlum the march merges into the Geest and Heide . The place has extensive forest areas and the Hohensteinsforst nature reserve .

Local division

• Kransburg
• Midlum (core town)
• Nordermarren
• Südermarren

Neighboring places

Nordholz - Spieka district	Nordholz	Nordholz - Wanhöden district
Cappel
Dorum	Holßel (City of Geestland )	Krempel (City of Geestland) Neuenwalde (City of Geestland)

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history

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, the villages of Midlum, Mulsum , Cappel , Padingbüttel , Dorum , Misselwarden and Wremen merged to form the municipality of Land Wursten .

On January 1, 2015, the joint municipality of Land Wursten and the municipality of Nordholz formed the new municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast in the district of Cuxhaven.

Population development

year Residents source 1910 0839 1925 0924 1933 1011 1939 1120 1950 1662 1956 1551 1973 1573 1975 01534 ¹ 1980 01663 ¹

year Residents source 1985 1653 ¹ 1990 1624 ¹ 1995 1731 ¹ 2000 1880 ¹ 2005 1920 ¹ 2010 1802 ¹ 2014 1684 ¹ 2017 16810 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

Local council

The local council of the municipality of Midlum consists of five councilors from the following parties:

• CDU : 2 seats
• SPD : 2 seats
• Voter initiative Wurster list : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Harald Schewe (Wurster list voter initiative). His deputy is Henry Kowalewski (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Midlum comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Albert de Badrihaye , who designed around 80 coats of arms in the district of Cuxhaven.

	Blazon : "In green above a silver, erect bishop's staff, accompaniedby two golden ears of corn ,a golden scale ."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The bishop's staff as a symbol of ecclesiastical rule reminds us that in the Middle Ages the manorial rule in Midlum largely belonged to the monastery founded there in 1219, moved to Altenwalde in 1282 and moved to Neuenwalde in 1334 . The scales indicate the importance of Midlums as a market place and the ears of wheat are symbols of agriculture.

Culture and sights

Church in Midlum, south window redone in the Gothic with brick

Dutch windmill in Midlum

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wurster North Sea Coast - Midlum

church

The church in Midlum, consecrated to St. Pancras , dates partly from the middle of the 12th century, partly from the beginning of the 13th century and is made of field stones. During the Gothic period , several windows were renewed with brick. Valuable pieces of equipment include the leaded baptismal font from the 14th century, an epitaph from 1611, the stalls with relief panels from 1622, the pulpit from 1623 and the altar from 1696.

Windmill

The Midlumer Mühle, a so-called Galerie-Holländer , is one of the few still functional windmills of this type in the district of Cuxhaven. It was built in 1857. The last active miller operated the mill with wind power until 1955. However, milling became increasingly unprofitable and soon could no longer hold its own against modern industrial mills. In 1998 the mill was sold to the community. Thanks to generous subsidies, this enabled it to be completely renovated. Today it is a listed building. To maintain and operate the mill and its bakery, a mill association was founded in 1998, namely the "Association for the Preservation of the Midlumer Mühle". The mill association operates and maintains the mill on its own. Weddings are also possible, because the mill is the official branch of the registry office of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast .

Megalithic tombs

The megalithic graves Midlum 1 and Midlum 2 , Sprockhoff -Nr. 606 and 607.

Associations and associations

• Association for the Preservation of Midlumer Mühle e. V.
• Heimatverein Midlum und Umgebung e. V.
• Friends of the day care center “Das Baumhaus” in Midlum e. V.
• Midlum Hunting Association
• School Association Midlum
• Shooting club Midlum from 1926 e. V.
• Midlum social association
• Midlum tennis club
• TSV Midlum

Economy and Infrastructure

As a holiday resort, Midlum has several tourist facilities, for example the open-air swimming pool, two campsites and long hiking trails through forest and heathland.

Myths and legends

• The Kranichsburg (also: Die Holleburg) and its dwarfs
• Bottom of the lake and height of the ship

literature

• Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (=  new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 15 ([ digitized version ( memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).
• Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 .

Web links

Commons : Midlum  - collection of images

Wikivoyage: Midlum  - travel guide

• Website of the spa administration
• Website of the village

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 224 .
2. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed March 24, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 35 .
4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the community Wurster North Sea Coast, district Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 428 , p. 2 ( digitized version ( memento of July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on May 9, 2019]).
5. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - Lehe district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 .  
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 61 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  192 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 48 , Wesermünde district ( digitized version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on June 3, 2020]).
9. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1925 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 12, 2019 .  
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on March 24, 2020 .  
11. ↑ ^{a b} Local councilor and local mayor of Midlum. In: Website Wurster North Sea Coast. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
13. ^ Thomas Witzke : Megalithic graves, stone boxes, menhirs and cup stones (cup stones) in Lower Saxony. In: strahlen.org. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .  
14. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .
15. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - The Holleburg and its dwarfs on YouTube , accessed on August 15, 2020.
16. ↑ The sagas of the country of Wursten - Seegrund und Schiffshöhe on YouTube , accessed on August 15, 2020.