Jümme is a collective municipality (Samtgemeinde) in the district of Leer in the German state of Lower Saxony.

On the rivers are the Pünte at Wiltshausen, the oldest, operational, hand-worked ferry in Central Europe, and Germany's smallest road bridge in the district of Amdorf.

The Samtgemeinde has historical significance because of the Battle of Detern where, in 1426, the East Frisian chieftain, Focko Ukena, defeated his adversary, Ocko II tom Brok and his allies.

For around 3 centuries, Stickhausen Castle in the eponymous village was also an important border fortification for the County of East Frisia.

The Samtgemeinde of Jümme is located in the eastern part of the county of Leer in East Frisia, in the northwest of the German state of Lower Saxony.

Its main settlement, Filsum, is situated about ten kilometres from the centre of the county town of Leer.

Thus the municipality is well below the East Frisian average of 148 inhabitants per square kilometre which, in turn, is well below Lower Saxony (168) and Germany as a whole (230).

The regional planning programme for the county of Leer has made Filsum the lower level administrative centre for Samtgemeinde.

Geologically, the surface of the Samtgemeinde of Jümme, like the whole of East Frisia, is formed from Pleistocene and Holocene beds.

The soils of the East Frisian Geest are largely made up of surface sands and boulder clay cover.

In the transition area between the rivers and the geest are peaty marshes that consist mostly of clay less than 40 centimetres thick on peat soils.

The central part of the area between the Leda and the Jümme now consists of fully cultivated fen (Niedermoor).

North and east of this area, in the municipalities of Nortmoor, Filsum, Detern and Stickhausen podsol soils predominate, usually in wet locations.

Because of the constant addition of fresh soil, the Esch, called Gaste in East Frisia, lies at a higher level than the village centres.

In places, the podsols of Anmoor have been intermingled or were turned into areas with very humus-rich topsoil as a result of peat extraction and subsequent cultivation.

If the Leda Sluice in Leer isn't closed - which occurs in severe storm surges - the tidal influence on the Ems can be felt far inland.

It is still 80 centimeters on the Drey Drain, a cross-connection between Leda and Jümme in the district Barge in southeastern Samtgemeinde territory.

[7] Flood control, dyke safety and drainage are the responsibility of the Leda-Jümme association, which is based in Leer.

Apart from the dikes and the sluices, the Association has five large controlled-discharge polders, essentially storm water overflow ponds.

The Samtgemeinde, characterised by grassy lowlands, has a very low proportion of forest, just 0.83 per cent (c.f 2.6% in East Frisia; 30.1% in Germany).

[12] The northwestern part of the integrated municipality region belonged to the Oldenburg-East Frisian Geest ridge, on which the previously "oldest archaeological discovery" was found: an approximately 35,000- to 40,000-year-old, twelve centimetres long and nine centimetres wide flint device as a tool for cutting and scraping from the Middle Palaeolithic .

During this time, the population steadily increased, and developed stable agricultural systems until it was absorbed into the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815.

In Prussia there was 1885 a territorial reform, in which the old offices were resolved in favor of newly created district, as well as in East Frisia.