Walchum

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '  N , 7 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Dörpen
Height :	6 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.5 km 2
Residents:	1588 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26907
Area code :	04963
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 056
Address of the municipal administration:	Südfeld 22 26907 Walchum
Website :	www.walchum.de
Mayor :	Alois Milsch ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Walchum in the district of Emsland

Walchum is a municipality in the integrated municipality of Dörpen in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .

Heimathaus in the village center

geography

location

The municipality of Walchum is located between the Ems in the east and the border with the Netherlands in the west between Leer and Meppen .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are in the north the community Dersum , in the east the community Kluse and in the south the community Sustrum in the integrated community Lathen .

history

20th century

Between 1935 and 1945, the Walchum Emsland camp with over 1,000 prisoners existed in the municipality .

origin of the name

The origin of the name Walchum (old: Walkium, Walkiun , later Walinoon, Waleihem, Walchem, Walchum ) is unknown. Walchum / Hasselbrock, but a Chaukisch / Frisian origin is close. The names of Frisian foundations often end with "- um ". Examples are: Dornum, Critzum, Pewsum, Petkum, Büsum, Lesum. The endings ina , ini , ine , inun , enan , enun , um , un , ene , en appear in numerous place names instead of a terminated basic word, without it being possible to decide whether they go back to the same or several original, old words. There is a general basic word meaning "settlement". The um, which is common in Emsland, is a younger form that has partly replaced the older one, for example in Dersum instead of Dersinun , Baccum for Baccamun .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Walchum consists of 11 councilors. After the local elections on September 11, 2011, two parties still belong to it .

• CDU - 9 seats
• SPD - 2 seats

In the local elections on September 11, 2016, the CDU received eight seats, while the SPD now has three seats.

The next local elections will take place in 2021.

mayor

Hermann Schweers was elected honorary mayor on September 9, 2001. He did not run for the municipal council for the 2016 election period. Alois Milsch was elected as the new mayor.

Culture and sights

Bathing beach on the Herzogsee

Marinapark on the Ems

Buildings

• Marinapark Emstal

Regular events

• Schützenfest, on the 3rd Sunday in June
• Christmas market, the first weekend of December.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Walchum can be reached via federal highway 70 . There is still a motorway connection to the nearby federal motorway 31 .

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 (editor) - 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 )

Web links

Commons : Walchum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Walchum community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Municipal election Walchum 2011. Samtgemeinde Dörpen, accessed on November 20, 2018 . 
3. ^ Municipal election Walchum 2016. Samtgemeinde Dörpen, accessed on November 20, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Minutes of the municipal council meeting on November 8, 2016, available at Samtgemeinde Dörpen , unfortunately no deeplink possible