Bassum

Bassum (; 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.

Geography

Subdivision

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

|-style="background:#E9E9E9;" !colspan="2" align="left"|Parties !Votes !% !+/- !Seats !+/- |- |bgcolor="#F59D07"| |align="left"|Christian Democratic Union of Germany |7237 |34.2 | -2.2 | | -1 |- |bgcolor="#ff0000"| |align="left"|Social Democratic Party of Germany |4331 |20.4 | -2.6 | | -1 |- |bgcolor="#0000ff"| |align="left"|Bürger-Block |4331 |20.4 | -0.2 | | ±0 |- |bgcolor="#00ff00"| |align="left"|Alliance 90/The Greens |2614 |12.3 | -3.3 | | -1 |- |bgcolor=""| |align="left"|The Left |753 |2.7 | +0.8 | | ±0 |- |bgcolor=""| |align="left"|Free Democratic Party |570 |2.7 | +2.7 | | +1 |- |bgcolor="white"| |align="left"|Helmut Zurmühlen |1418 |6.7 | +6.7 | | +1 |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" !colspan="2" align="left"|Total ! !align="center" colspan="2"|100% !align="center" colspan="2"|29

Mayor

|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align=center ! rowspan="2" align="left" | Candidates ! rowspan="2" align="left" | Party ! colspan="2" | Round 1 ! colspan="2" | Round 2 |- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align=center ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % ! width="75" | Votes ! width="30" | % |- | align="left" | Christian Porsch | align="left" | | align="right" | | align="right" | 33.45 % | align="right" | | align="right" | 56.31 % |- | align="left" | Claus Marx | align="left" | | align="right" | | align="right" | 29.38 % | align="right" | | align="right" | 43.69% |- | align="left" | Bernadette Nadermann | align="left" | | align="right" | | align="right" | 21.87% | colspan="2" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- | align="left" | Cathleen Schorling | align="left" | CDU | align="right" | | align="right" | 15.29% |- | colspan="6" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- ! colspan="2" align="left" | Total Votes ! align="right" | ! align="right" | 99.99% ! align="right" | ! align="right" | 100% |- | colspan="6" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- | colspan="2" align="left" | Eligible Voters | align="right" | | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | | align="right" | | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- | colspan="2" align="left" | Turnout | align="right" | | align="right" | 56,79 % | align="right" | | align="right" | 41,92 % |- | colspan="6" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- | colspan="6" align="left" | Source: City of Bassum

Coat of arms

International relations

Bassum has twinning arrangements with:

• Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, France (1972)
• TelÅ¡iai, Lithuania (2009)
• Spilsby, United Kingdom (2010)

Notable residents

Born in Bassum

• Elisabeth Wiedemann (1926-2015), German actress
• Tessa Hofmann (born 1949), scholar of Armenian studies and sociology
• Hans-Hermann Sprado (1956–2014), German journalist and author, editor and publisher of P.M. Magazine
• Ulf Schirmer (born 1959), German conductor, general music director of the Leipzig Opera
• Roman Fricke (born 1977), German high jumper, participant in the Olympics Athens 2004
• Christian Schulz (born 1983), German footballer

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

• Bassum station
• Bramstedt bei Syke railway station

References