Ankum is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in

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. From the Parish Ankum many people had emigrated to the Netherlands until 1800 and later to the USA. The parish Ankum includes the municipalities Ankum village (=Dorf), Ahausen-Sitter, Aslage, Basum-Sussum since June 1972 municipal Eggermühlen; Besten with Krevinghausen and Striekel since 1972 municipality Eggermühlen, Brickwedde with Stockum and Westrup since 1972, Bokel since 1972 municipality

Bersenbrück Bersenbrück (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Bessenbrügge'') is a town in the Osnabrück (district), district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Hase, approx. 30 km north of Osnabrück. Bersenbrück is the seat of ...

, Bockraden and Doethen since 1972 municipality Eggermühlen, Kettenkamp,

Nortrup Nortrup is a municipality in the Osnabrück (district), district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Mayor Leonhard Renze was elected in April 1993. He was the successor of Reinhold Gieseke. Renze was in office till 2016. Since 2016 Karl-Hei ...

-Loxten, Rüssel, Talge since 1972 municipality

, Tütingen, Westerholte. Today the unless otherwise stated municipalities constitute the village Ankum.

People

* Georg Preuße (born 1950), actor * Heinrich Arminius Rattermann (1832-1923), writer, historian, entrepreneur

References

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