Nevertheless, it is known that people must have lived in the region of the Nordhümmling for about 4000 years because of archaeological discoveries dating to this time period.

The Romans, acting out of revenge after losing the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, enslaved this small tribe.

Nevertheless, it is reasonable to say that all four tribes (Saxons, Frisians, Amsivians and Chauken) are ancestors of modern-day residents of Börger.

The people of the region never truly accepted the authority of the nobility, because settlements were difficult to travel between and often subject to pillages.

Several revolts erupted due to the protest of imposed taxes and the lack of protection against pillaging neighbouring regions of the Dutch, Frisians and Stedinger.

In this document the farmers of the North Hümmling subordinated themselves to the bishop of Münster when he gained power over Cloppenburg.

During the Thirty Years' War, in 1647 Wahn, Lorup and six other villages at the Ems were burned down by pillaging soldiers.

It is being handed down that an inhabitant of Börger (Albert Dillen) was abducted and released after promising not to pillage the village by paying a ransom.

The region of Börger used to be 130 square kilometres in size before the daughter communities of Neubörger and Breddenberg formed.

(The biggest community in the Kingdom of Hanover) Most of the region is sand and swamp, which is unusable for farming without fertilizer.

Because of this, many residents moved to the Netherlands during the spring as peat diggers and mowers, until the crops were ready at home.

After ten years of free use the settlers had to pay high tributes to the nobility, the duchy of Arenberg, but also to the municipal of Börger.

With end of the feudal system in 1887 and the distribution of ownership of land to the small farmers, the economy began to improve.

Börgermoor acquired worldwide prominence as the location of one of the first Nazi concentration camps, where the famous song of the Peat Bog Soldiers originated.