Jümme

Jümme is a group of municipalities in the Leer district of Lower Saxony in Germany, named after the river Jümme. It has an area of 82.34 km² and a population of 6,421.The districts are (area in km² / population): Detern, Flecken (43.30 / 2,621) Filsum (23.76 / 2,131) Nortmoor (15.28 / 1,669)The Samtgemeinde Jümme is an association of municipalities in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony region Ostfriesland. It is next to the Samtgemeinde Hesel one of the two joint communities in the district, and consists of the three towns: Detern, Filsum and Nortmoor who joined forces in the wake of local government reform in the year 1973. It is named after the river Jümme which flows through all three member communities. Filsum serves as the administrative center.Due to the location of Jümme and Leda, Jümme is also known as "Mesopotamia". The East Frisian geographer Dodo Wildvang coined the term "East Frisian Mesopotamia" in the 1920s. The cities re located on the rivers with the Puente Wilts Hausen the oldest, still in operation, hand drawn ferry in Central Europe and Germany's smallest car bridge in the district Amdorf.The integrated municipality has historical significance by the battle of Detern, where in 1426 the East Frisian chieftain focko ukena his adversary Ocko II. Tom defeated Brok and its allies. The Stickhausen castle in the town district was also over some three centuries an important border fortification of the County of East Frisia. For cultural heritage of Samtgemeinde count next to the remains of the castle and historic churches, of which the Filsumer St. Paul's church from the 13th century is the oldest.