Bassum

Bassum

Bassum

Town in Lower Saxony, Germany

Bassum (German pronunciation: [ˈbasʊm] ⓘ; Northern Low Saxon: Bassen) is a town in the district of Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 35 km northeast of Diepholz, and 25 km south of Bremen.

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Geography

Subdivision

Subdivision of Bassum

Besides Bassum proper, the town consists of the following Ortschaften (villages):

  • Albringhausen
  • Apelstedt (with Pannstedt)
  • Bramstedt (with Bünte and Röllinghausen)
  • Eschenhausen
  • Groß Henstedt
  • Great Ringmar
  • Hallstedt
  • Hollwedel (with Dimhausen, Möhlenhof, Hilken, Katenkamp, Nüstedt, Klein and Groß Hollwedel)
  • Neubruchhausen (with Freidorf)
  • Nienstedt
  • Nordwohlde (with Stütelberg, Fesenfeld, Kastendiek, Steinforth, Högenhausen, Kätingen and Pestinghausen)
  • Osterbinde
  • Schorlingborstel (with Ebersheide, Lowe and Kolloge)
  • Stühren
  • Wedehorn
  • Bassum (with Loge, Freudenberg, Klenkenborstel, Hassel, Nienhaus and Nienhaus)

Neighbouring municipalities


Politics

Town council

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Mayor

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Coat of arms

Coat of arms of the City of Bassum
 "Party per fess Argent an upright branch vert with three tilia leaves and Or two armed gules bear claws outwards sable; above a ornamental pedestal Or, two horses rampant Argent as supporters, in the crest a three towered mural crown gules.”

The arms were granted on November 24, 1927. The lower part shows the bear claws derived from the arms of the Counts of Hoya. to which the city belonged to since 1582. The tilia leaves in the upper represent the three former municipalities Bassum, Freudenberg and Loge who built the new city of Bassum in 1896. The mural crown, symbolises the 13th century Freudenburg castle and the city rights as well and two horses as supporters stand for the belonging to Lower Saxony.



International relations

Bassum has twinning arrangements with


Notable residents

Born in Bassum

Associated with the town

  • The songwriter Konstantin Wecker (born 1947), married in 1996 Annik Wecker born Berlin; she grew up in Bassum
  • Herbert Zimmermann, (1917-1966), officer in World War II, radio reporter of the Football game Germany-Hungary FIFA World Cup 1954, died in 1966 in the district Wiebusch in a traffic accident

See also

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References

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    "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
  2. [2]
    "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
  3. [3]
    "Wahlergebnisse der Bürgermeisterwahl 2014". bassum.de (in German). City of Bassum. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
  4. [4]
    "Wahlergebnisse der Stichwahl 2014". bassum.de (in German). City of Bassum. Archived from the original on 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
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