Mulsum (Wurster North Sea Coast)

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Coat of arms of Mulsum
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 43 ″  E
Height : 0 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.43 km²
Residents : 543  (2017)
Population density : 64 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2015
Postal code : 27639
Area code : 04742
Mulsum (Lower Saxony)
Mulsum

Location of Mulsum in Lower Saxony
Mulsum in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast
Mulsum in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast

Mulsum ( Low German Mulsen ) is a village in the municipality of Wurster Nordseeküste in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Mulsum is located in the state of Wursten between the two cities of Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven .

Local division

  • Lewing
  • Mulsum (main town)
  • Wierde

Neighboring places

Padingbüttel Dorum
Misselwarden Neighboring communities Holßel
(City of Geestland )

Sievern
(City of Geestland)
Wremen

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history

In prehistoric times there was the Feddersen Wierde , a Wurtendorf in the sea march , near Mulsum . The Saxon settlement originally located on an island was from the 1st century BC. . BC to the 5th century inhabited. The mounds of individual farms grew together over time into a four hectare and four meters high Dorfwurt over. This was completely uncovered from 1954 to 1963 in a large-scale archaeological excavation by the Lower Saxony State Institute for Marsh and Wurten Research in Wilhelmshaven (today's Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research ).

In 1524 a battle of Wurster soldiers and troops of the Archbishop of Bremen took place in the Mulsum churchyard of St. Mary's Church , which ended with a devastating defeat of the Wurster and led to the subsequent plundering of the entire Wursten country.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, the localities Mulsum, Cappel , Midlum , 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.

Population development

year Residents source
1910 412
1925 416
1933 357
1939 352
1950 625
1956 501
1973 448
1975 0426 ¹
1980 0410 ¹
year Residents source
1985 410 ¹
1990 418 ¹
1995 441 ¹
2000 459 ¹
2005 509 ¹
2010 501 ¹
2014 543 ¹
2017 5430
0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

City council and mayor

At the municipal level, Mulsum is represented by the council of the Wurster Nordseeküste community.

Mayor

The mayor of Mulsum is Udo Skeraitis ( SPD ). His deputy is Bernd Icken. The term of office runs from 2016 to 2021.

coat of arms

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

Coat of arms of Mulsum
 Blazon : "In red a silver church with three golden bells in the sound windows (1: 2), golden gate and golden weathercock , accompanied on the right by an upright silver beard with a golden stem, top left with the year 1524. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms commemorates the battle between the soldiers of the Archbishop of Bremen and the Wurstern entrenched in the Mulsum churchyard in 1524.

Culture and sights

St. Mary's Church, Romano-Gothic in granite blocks and tuff, late Gothic in brick

Buildings

  • St. Marien Church: The nave and choir of the church in Mulsum were built shortly after 1250, the walls made of granite ashlars , the early Gothic pointed arches made of tuff . The church was dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Around 1500 the brick nave was extended to the west, on the south side with a large arched window with a Gothic stepped reveal, and at the same time the brick west tower was built. Special mention should be made of the Gothic Marien-wing altar from around 1430 and the Madonna on the crescent moon from around 1500. The cemetery surrounding the church was once a battlefield; In 1524 the Wurster were subject to the conquering army of Bremen Archbishop Christoph von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Associations and associations

  • Mulsum Hunting Association
  • Mulsum shooting club
  • Singing community Muslum
  • TSV Mulsum

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway runs through the village, but the stop has not been served since 1991.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Myths and legends

  • The curse of the evil deed
  • The clairvoyant of Barlingshausen
  • A scary house
  • A mother's love
  • Wollf from the Wollfsburg

literature

  • Willy Klenck: The village book of Mulsum in the land of Wursten, Wesermünde district in Lower Saxony . Publishing house of the German Working Group on Genealogical Associations, Frankfurt a. M. 1959.
  • Werner Haarnagel: The Feddersen Wierde excavation: method, house construction, settlement and economic forms as well as social structure . tape 2 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1979.
  • 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 .
  • Matthias Dichter: Familiar ringing for 500 years. In 1520 the Annenglocke was cast by St. Marien in Mulsum . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 847 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven July 2020, p. 1–2 ( digital version [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on July 31, 2020]).

Web links

Commons : Mulsum  - collection of images

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 25, 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 10, 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 25, 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. 63 ). (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 [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. 1927 . 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 25, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Mulsum Mayor. In: Website of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
  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. ↑ The sagas of the country Wursten - The Curse of Evil Deed on YouTube , accessed on August 13, 2020.
  14. ↑ The sagas of the country Wursten - Eine Mutter Liebe on YouTube , accessed on August 13, 2020.
  15. ↑ 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 .
  16. ↑ The sagas of the country of Wursten - Wollf von der Wollfsburg on YouTube , accessed on August 13, 2020.