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Bassum

town in the district of Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany
Place urban_municipality_in_germany Q501865

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
urban municipality in Germany, Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony[6]
Official website
www.bassum.de[33]

Location

Country
Germany[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.849°, 8.727°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Diepholz District[4]
Shares border with
Syke, Neuenkirchen, Twistringen[7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+169, +168.85[46][47]
Elevation above sea level
+42, +35[44][45]
Highest point
Bassumer Utkiek[32]
Population
17k (16k–17k, n=11)[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]

Codes

Local dialing code
04241, 04244[30][31]
Postal code
27211[28]
More facts +7
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Albringhausen, Apelstedt, Bramstedt, Eschenhausen, Groß Henstedt, Wedehorn, Stühren, Schorlingborstel, Osterbinde, Nordwohlde, Nienstedt (Bassum), Neubruchhausen, Hollwedel, Hallstedt, Groß Ringmar[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Deutschland/Niedersachsen/Diepholz/Bassum
Hashtag
Bassum[49]
Licence plate code
DH[29]
Member of
Niedersächsischer Städtetag, Kommunalverbund Niedersachsen/Bremen[2][3]
Position held by head of the organization
Wikidata item[48]
Twinned administrative body
Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, Spilsby, Gvardeysk, Telšiai[24][25][26][27]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bassum ar باسوم de Bassen he באסום ja バッスム ru Бассум zh 巴苏姆 zh-hant 巴蘇姆
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
139580232
Library of Congress authority ID
n82127329
GND ID
4004664-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bassum 20090501 056.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
49381
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--435951
FactGrid item ID
Alpirsbach
Freebase ID
/m/0c4rgb
GeoNames ID
6557410
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6557410 GND (DNB) 2952252 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
German municipality key
03251007
German regional key
032510007007
Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
BASSUMJO42IU
Show all 24 identifiers +12
Klimadashboard.de region ID
e301086e-27a3-4c6d-9976-35fb9d4bb2f7
Museum-digital place ID
7086
MusicBrainz area ID
30c74069-6e37-4a18-8282-d72b0c682b96
NL CR AUT ID
ge1208394
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559713305171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1461189
Topic's main category
Category:Bassum
UN/LOCODE
DEBSM
WOEID
637130
Who's on First ID
101807909, 1125382885
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmP3JtVwYkGhbrJgMvfv3
Yale LUX ID
place/b86ea301-018f-4e23-b1d8-0425f61121d4
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Berlin 2026-09-26 A/ADM4 · DE GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
People born here 5
Christian Schulz, Ulf Schirmer, Tessa Hofmann, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Holger Stark
Twinned administrative body 4
Telšiai, Gvardeysk, Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, Spilsby
← Twinned administrative body 4
Telšiai, Gvardeysk, Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, Spilsby
Contained subdivisions 3
Bassum station, Wildeshausen Geest Nature Park, Bramstedt bei Syke railway station
Shares border with 3
Syke, Twistringen, Neuenkirchen
← Shares border with 3
Syke, Twistringen, Neuenkirchen
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People who died here 2
Herbert Zimmermann, Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff
Country 1
Germany
FactGrid item ID 1
Alpirsbach
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Diepholz District
Topic's main category 1
Category:Bassum
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Bassum
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Diepholz District
← Headquarters location 1
Volksbank Bassum - Stuhr - Syke - Weyhe
← Terminus location 1
Bundesstraße 61
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Summary

Bassum is an urban municipality in Germany[1].

Related Entities

Germany Telšiai

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  27. [2] ↑ . nst.de. Retrieved . nst.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  34. [35] ↑ . www1.nls.niedersachsen.de. www1.nls.niedersachsen.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . destatis.de. Retrieved . destatis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . statistikportal.de. Retrieved . statistikportal.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . register of German municipalities (4th quarter 2022). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  40. [41] ↑ . register of German municipalities (2023). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  41. [42] ↑ . register of German municipalities (2024). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  42. [43] ↑ . Gemeindeverzeichnis 2025. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  46. [47] ↑ . destatis.de. Retrieved . destatis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21d ago · Nw520 · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 44
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'azb', 'ce', 'ceb', 'commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu',
    Member of → Niedersächsischer Städtetag, Kommunalverbund Niedersachsen/Bremen
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 9w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+15634'}, {'amount': '+15737'}, {'amount': '+15818'} +8
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  3. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+15634'}, {'amount': '+15737'}, {'amount': '+15818'} +8
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  4. 20w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held by head of the organization → Wikidata item
    Population → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 52.849444444444, 'lon': 8.7266666666667}
    Website → —
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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