Groß Berßen

Great Berßen is a municipality in the Emsland district Soegel the integrated municipality in western Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

With about 660 inhabitants United Berßen one of the smaller municipalities in Emsland. It covers 20.76 km ². The place name is more likely to point to the area expansion by today's standards. The neighboring village of Klein Berßen has more inhabitants, but a smaller area.

• 3.1 municipal

• 4.1 Curiosities

Geography

Location

Great Berßen located in the Emsland region near the southern edge of the moraine hills of Hümmling. The community is located between Meppen in the southwest and Soegel in the northeast and between Nordradde in the north and in the south Mittelradde.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are in the north, the municipality Soegel, in the east the municipality Hüven, in the south the municipality Lähden in Samtgemeinde Heart Lake and the city Haselünne and in the west the village of Klein Berßen.

History

Little is known about the prehistoric development of the municipality Great Berßen. The large number of hills and barrows (see: Street of megalithic culture ) within the municipal area is, however, that here in the Neolithic period, around 3000 BC, people have lived here. Particularly interesting are the so-called King of Great Berßen grave and a reconstructed near megalithic grave. The " Mans mountains ", located on the municipal boundary between large and small Berßen, are well worth seeing again for the restoration of heathland. The village was first mentioned around 940 The name of today's 677 inhabitants municipality is the first time the time of Bishop Dodo I of Osnabrück ( term 919-952 ) mentioned as part of the parish Bokeloh.

The name Berßen found fragmentär on behalf Bersenbrücks or in the name " Bersa " or " Besula ". For the interpretation of the name, there are two interpretations.

In this first documentary mention, in the described 10th century, the name United Berßen is romanized ( bersinium ) listed. From this Latinized form of the name " Home of Bern " from the Old Saxon can be derived.

Another interpretation of the name stems from the long-ago founding of the settlements to large Berßen (around the middle of the century before Christ ). The resident then West Germans named their villages often after the encountered landscape conditions. Thus, terms such as mud, dirt, pool, springs, lake, swamp, marsh, reed, puddle, mud or dirt were woven with the name. When you consider in relation to major Berßen that there are still around 100 glacial lakes on the Hümmling was in 1900, among them the lake in front of the king 's grave and the so-called " Schmees sea ", so you can close on a water-rich and marshy area. So that may be responsible in and around Great Berßen for the current name, the water-rich landscape. The first part of word " Ber " thus has water back and the second part of the name " sen " to a settlement. Thus Berßen means, according to the second interpretation, " settlement on the water."

In 1382 the name was first mentioned in its present form ( Bersen ).

In his history of Great Berßen remained to this day a village embossed community amidst a pristine heathland and lowland landscape, its inhabitants little economic development opportunities offered.

The community is characterized up to the present time by agriculture; in Great Berßen currently go about 40 full- time farmers for their labor.

Policy

Parish council

• CDU - 9 seats

Mayor: Reinhard Kurlemann

Economy

In the United Berßen is the seat of the Hanoverian subsidiary of Lower Saxony.

Curiosities

Small Berßen has more inhabitants than the United Berßen, but which in turn has a larger area. Both communities are politically autonomous, ie each community has its own mayor and its own city council. Except for the political activities of all other runs together. There is a shared parish, a common sports club, a common Musikverein etc. Also, the annual celebrations, such as the shooting, the fair or the harvest festival to be organized and celebrated by the citizens of both communities. Despite everything, it is not yet been able to form from small and large Berßen a common Berßen.

Say

The Loher hole. In the town of Gross Berßen there is still a forest called a tan. In this forest once supposed to have been an inn. Now when a wedding was celebrated in this inn on a Good Friday, to be passed a priest. When he saw the wild goings on Good Friday, he uttered a curse, and the inn is to be sunk along with the wedding party in the ground. Even today, in a small pond Lohe, which is to highlight the alleged site of the incident.