Walchum

Walchum is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony.

  • 2.1 Neighbouring communities
  • 2.2 history
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 parks
  • 4.3 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic

Geography

Geographical Location

The community Walchum lies between the Ems to the east and the border with the Netherlands in the west between empty and Meppen.

Origin of the name

The origin of the name Walchum (old: Walkium, Walkiun, later Walinoon, Waleihem, Walchem ​​, Walchum ) is unknown. But Walchum / Hasselbrock located near a chaukisch / Frisian origin. The names Frisian -ups often end in " -um ". Examples are: Dornum, Critzum, Pewsum, Petkum Büsum Lesum. The endings ina, ini, ine, inun enantiodifferentiating, enun to, un, ene, en come in numerous place names in front instead of a abgeschlissenen basic word, without that it can be decided whether to go back to einunddasselbe or more original, old words. Inside is a general basic word meaning "settlement ". The frequent in Emsland order is a more recent form, which is converted to parts to the place of older, such as Dersum instead Dersinun, Baccum for Baccamun.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are in the north, the municipality Dersum, in the east the municipality Kluse and to the south the municipality Sustrum in Samtgemeinde Lathen.

History

Emslandlager IV, Walchum The camp exzistierte 1933-1944 as a prison camp, with more than 1,000 prisoners.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Walchum is composed of 11 councilors and council women. Its members after local elections on 11 September 2011 to continue two parties.

  • CDU - 9 seats
  • SPD - 2 seats

The next local elections will take place in 2016.

Mayor

The honorary mayor Hermann Schweers was elected on 9 September 2001.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Marina Park Emstal

Parks

  • Duke Lake

Regular events

  • Marksmen, on the 3rd Sunday in June from Sunday and Monday.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Walchum can be reached via the main road 70. There is still a highway access to the nearby motorway 31

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