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Büsum (Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde)

former Amt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ453645 ↗
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Kirchspielslandgemeinde Büsum was an Amt ("collective municipality"), located in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. On 25 May 2008, it merged with the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde Wesselburen and the town Wesselburen to form the Amt Büsum-Wesselburen. It had its seat in Büsum and consisted of the following municipalities:

Büsum (4.880)

Büsumer Deichhausen (345)

Hedwigenkoog (271)

Oesterdeichstrich (273)

Warwerort (284)

Westerdeichstrich (908)

(Population on September 30, 2005)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms depicts Saint Clement, patron saint of sailors and fishermen and eponym of the Sankt Clemens church in Büsum.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Büsum (Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde)” is former Amt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Büsum, Kirchspielslandgemeinde and former, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Büsum, Kirchspielslandgemeinde and former is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q453645. VIAF identifies the subject as 245413884. Authority coordinates are 54.133, 8.850. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Büsum (Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.