Jümme

Jümme is a Samtgemeinde (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):

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. As the administrative center Filsum serves.

Due to the location of Jümme and Leda Jümme is also known as "Mesopotamia"; the East Frisian geographer Dodo Wildvang coined already in the 1920s, the term "East Frisian Mesopotamia". Are located on the rivers with the Puente Wilts Hausen the oldest by municipality details still in operation, hand drawn ferry in Central Europe and Germany's smallest car bridge in the district Amdorf.

Jümme (river)

The Jümme is a tributary of the Leda in northern Germany. Its headwaters are the Aper Tief, which flows from the Oldenburg geest, and the Soeste. The Jümme is 18 kilometres (11 mi) long from its headstream, the Aper Tief, to its confluence with the Leda near Wiltshausen and is tidal. Fishing rights rest with the local fishing club, Fischereiverein Altes Amt Stickhausen, which issues fishing permits to its members and to visiting anglers.

The Jümme gives its name to the collective municipality of Jümme.

Together with the Leda the Jümme forms the so-called Zweistromland or "Two Rivers Land", the Leda-Jümme region, one of the most charming areas in East Frisia, with its numerous lakes such as the Jümmesee which covers an area of 11 hectares (27 acres).

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