Barum, LÃ¼neburg

Barum is a municipality in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Lüneburg, Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

2.1 Amalgamations

3.1 municipal
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Coat of Arms

5.1 traffic

Geography

Geographical Location

Barum, a village surrounded by the Lüneburg Elbmarsch, is centrally located to the towns of Lüneburg ( about 13 miles), Winsen ( about 16 miles), Lauenburg ( about 18 km) and Geesthacht ( about 15 miles) as well as to Hamburg ( about 40 km). Until the same is about 6 km. The village is crossed by the river Neetze, the north of the village lake-like widening and therefore Barumer lake is called. From the Neetze the end of the 19th century branches built Neetzekanal.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Barum Barum, Horburg and St. Dionys.

History

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Horburg and St. Dionysius were incorporated at the local government reform in Lower Saxony.

Policy

The municipality is part of the Barum Parliament Constituency 49 Lüneburg and the Bundestag constituency 38 Lüchow -Dannenberg, Lüneburg.

Parish council

The Council of the Municipality Barum is made up of eleven members:

CDU: 4 seats
SPD: 4 seats
UWG: 2 seats
GREEN: 1 seat

Mayor

Coat of arms

Argent, a blue wave Göpel right, a blue Mühleisen, left the fed turned crook of a bishop blue bar and down a leafy, blue cattail. The wave Göpel has the many watercourses through which run through the municipality and simultaneously shows that the community is made up of three parts. The Mühleisen represents the district Barum, the crozier of St. Dionysius, the cattail for Horburg.

Place names

The old names were 1290 in Berne, 1304 in Barem, 1305 Barme, 1319 in villa Barme, 1344 uilla Barem, 1348 to / van Barum, 1354 Barem, 1366 van Barum, 1384 to Barem. The Low German dialect dictionaries recorded under barme, berm several interpretations, such as grave edge, river dike, embankment, step on the dike, the sole "of the foot of the dike ." Barum is located on a protruding from the Neetze, relatively narrow elevation. It therefore applies to Barum in the district of Lüneburg "settlement at " or " on a hill ".

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Barum is located on the county roads 12 ( Wittorf - Barum ) and 1 ( Tespe - Barum Brietlingen ). By bus 4400 ( Barum Tespe march eight- Ronne station Hamburg -Bergedorf ), 5402 (marching eight- Tespe - Horburg- Barum Wittorf -Lüneburg ) and 5904 ( Horburg- Barum Brietlingen - school center Scharnebeck ) HVV Barum is to the regional transportation system.

Education

The municipality has a single-compartment elementary school as a branch of elementary school Bardowick, a kindergarten, and since 2013 also a creche. Secondary schools are there in Bardowick and Lüneburg

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