Wilsum is a community in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

, Germany

Germany

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 near the Dutch

Netherlands

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 border

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, and it belongs to the Joint Community (Samtgemeinde) of Uelsen

Uelsen (Samtgemeinde)

Uelsen is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Bentheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in the municipality Uelsen.The Samtgemeinde Uelsen consists of the following municipalities:# Getelo# Gölenkamp# Halle...

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History

Wilsum had its first documentary mention in 851. Since the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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 it has belonged to the County (now district) of Bentheim (Grafschaft Bentheim). In the Dutch Revolt

Dutch Revolt

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, the community was very adversely affected in the years from 1580 to 1605; many inhabitants fled to the Netherlands. In 1725 a church was built.

Religion

• Evangelical Reformed parish
• Evangelical Old Reformed parish (regionally also known as Koksch)

Sightseeing

• Schoneveld's Mill, a watermill
  Watermill
  A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour, lumber or textile production, or metal shaping .- History :...
  
  believed to have been built in the 13th century