Roringen
51.55869003472210.006098747222304Koordinaten: 51 ° 33 ' 31 " N, 10 ° 0' 22" E
Roringen in the city of Göttingen
Roringen is a village in southern Lower Saxony and northeast district of the Lower Saxon university town of Göttingen. It is located about 6 kilometers north-east of the main town directly on the main road 27
- 2.1 Church of St. Martin
- 2.2 Berwinkelswarte
History
The first documentary mention of the place was made in 1162 by a letter of Pope Alexander III. to the adjacent Augustinian Monastery in Nicholas Berg, in which he, inter alia, confirmed the monastery having four hooves country in Roringe. Additional written notices in the 12th century mention the place as Rariggen ( 1170 ) and Rorunghen ( 1189 ) .. From Roringen came the Junker dynasty of Roringen whose first representatives of Manfried Roringen, called in 1025. They had in neighbourhod various goods, were Lehnsinhaber the noble lords of Plesse and had even in Bovenden possessions. Several representative of the family went into the monastery Reinhausen and reached there sometimes leading positions as the brother of Hans Roringens, which was designated as Mr. Dionysius and held the title of prelates. He died in 1300, just one year later Günther is called by Roringen, which is called Prior. In the 14th century, the city of Göttingen acquired by the Duke of Brunswick, the town that exerted the administration of the village until the mid 19th century. She had at that time by the Duke grant permission to dig the city has a militia, and can hold a number waiting to be allowed to. A direct result is still found today in the Berwinkelswarte. In the course of Hildesheim beer feud from 1481 to 1486 as well as other villages in the area also Roringen was devastated. From 1848 up to the local government reform was Roringen an independent municipality. On January 1, 1973, the annexation took place in the district town of Göttingen.
The population of the town has grown considerably in recent decades, but in 2009 fell slightly below the 1000 population from brand. So lived in 2009 still 995 inhabitants in Roringen.
Coat of arms
The local arms of Roringen shows on a red background at the bottom edge of a green hill on which stands a watchtower in gold. Centered in front of the watchtower is located, the Berlin coat of arms modeled, a bear.
Culture and sights
Church of St. Martin
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin in Roringen was first documented in 1254. Patrons were then the Dukes of Brunswick, today it is the city of Göttingen. The original flat-roofed nave was constructed in the 19th century with a wooden barrel ceiling.
1999 August Organ of Werder from 1846 and a large part of the interior of the church was destroyed by fire. As a replacement built Gebr Hillebrand in 2003 a new instrument with 16 stops on two manuals and pedal.
The church consists of a medieval nearly square west tower with a pyramidal roof and a 1747/48 in the east -grown church hall with a gabled roof and hipped.
Berwinkelswarte
The ruins of Roringer waiting or Berwinkelswarte lies east of town on the B 27 at the height of 323 m above sea level. NN. It was built in 1408/ 09 as part of the Göttingen city walls and is still preserved as a tower of masonry. The roof is missing.