Sustrum

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Lathen
Height :	7 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.59 km 2
Residents:	1373 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49762
Area code :	05939
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 052
LOCODE :	DE XZ3
Community structure:	3 districts
Mayor :	Heinz-Hermann Hoppe ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Sustrum in the district of Emsland

Sustrum is a member municipality of the Samtgemeinde Lathen in the Emsland in Lower Saxony . It was created on January 1, 1973 in the course of a regional reform from Sustrum, Neusustrum and Sustrum-Moor and is one of the oldest settlements in the Emsland .

The municipality has more than 1,300 inhabitants and covers an area of 35.59 square kilometers. The administrative seat is in the municipality of Lathen .

geography

Geographical location

Sustrum lies west of the Ems and extends to the border with the Netherlands . The A 31 motorway runs through the community with the Lathen junction .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the community Walchum in the combined community Dörpen , in the east the community Kluse (combined community Dörpen) and the community Fresenburg , in the south the community Niederlangen and with Rütenbrock the city Haren .

Community structure

The districts Sustrum, Neusustrum and Sustrum-Moor belong to the municipality.

Sustrum district

The village of Sustrum was first mentioned in the 11th century in the registers of the Corvey monastery and is one of the oldest communities in the Emsland and the surrounding area. In terms of the church, the settlement was affiliated to the parish of Steinbild , which meant the cumbersome and dangerous journey by ferry across the Ems when visiting the church. Although several ferry gaps have survived, it was only after the ferry crash on March 12, 1920 that concrete plans were made to build an own church. The St. Nicholas Church was consecrated on December 6, 1923, and its consecration took place in 1927.

District Neusustrum

Neusustrum was founded on August 17, 1788 as a bog colony . The moor area belonged to the Sustrum brand municipality. The first settlers suffered from existential problems because the meager soil produced hardly any yield and buckwheat was the main food . Improvements only began in 1829, when more productive areas could be bought east of the settlement and rye cultivation began.

Sustrum-Moor district

Sustrum moor stretches in the west to the Dutch border and was created in the 1930s as part of further moor cultivation. From 1950 the first houses and a school were built in the area. In 1959 the church was consecrated, and in 1969 the left-hemisphere center school was opened in Sustrum-Moor.

history

Sustrum was first mentioned in a document in the 11th century and has been known over the years under the names suhtram (12th century), zugerum or Zutzerem (1358). The current name seems to have been common since 1534.

In 1933, the third of the 15 Emsland camps in the area of Sustrum-Moor was opened , the Neusustrum concentration camp for 1000 so-called political prisoners , and from 1934 used as a prison camp for the Ministry of Justice . Among other things, the social democrat and democrat Ludwig Pappenheim from Eschwege died in this camp on January 4, 1934. Allegedly he was "shot while trying to escape". Even after the end of National Socialism , the perpetrators were never prosecuted.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the neighboring community of Neusustrum was incorporated as part of the regional reform.

politics

Municipal council

The Sustrumer municipal council consists of eleven council members.

CDU - 11 seats

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011 )

mayor

Heinz-Hermann Hoppe (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is divided horizontally in the middle. The yellow lower surface and the red upper surface overlap in a wave-like manner. An ear of wheat rises from the base of the shield and is flanked by two cattails . There is a red three- leaf clover in each of the lower right and left corners .

literature

Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (Ed.): Old German Name Book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place Names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )
Sustrum 2004: Contributions to History . Publishing house community Sustrum and Heimatverein Sustrum, Sustrum 2004
Bernd Faulenbach , Andrea Kaltofen (ed.): "Hell in the Moor". The Emsland camps 1933–1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2 .