Ohrdorf

52.69777777777810.80833333333386Koordinaten: 52 ° 41 ' 52 "N, 10 ° 48' 30" E

Location of Ohrdorf in Lower Saxony

The village Ohrdorf located in Lower Saxony in Gifhorn and belongs to the city of Witt rings.

History

Ohrdorf was founded in 1112 as Adorp first mentioned ( deed book of the Bishopric of Halberstadt, I, 136), as Ordorpe after 1209 ( in the resulting 1208-1215 Halberstadt bishop chronicles, the Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium ). Other medieval place name forms were Orthorp, wenedisches Ordorp, Ordorp apud Witt rings, Ordorppe and Ordorff.

The name comes from the village to the river tubes, which rises near the village and north of Magdeburg flows into the Elbe. In GDR times, was the state border in the middle of the ear near the village. The nearest town on the East German side was Haselhorst, he was no longer directly accessible from the early 1950s of Ohrdorf; not until 1990 that the road link has been restored.

Built in 1235 Lawrence Church is a stone church and has a Gothic winged altar from 1470. According to legend, the altar for a church in Witt rings was determined. The car that transported the altar, had a Radbruch in Ohrdorf what the ear villages were exploited to make the drunk driver and to create the altar in their own church. The pulpit dates from 1700, the ceiling painting by 1711th

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Boitzenhagen, Plastau, Radenbeck, Schneflingen, Tesch village and Zasenbeck were integrated into the community Ohrdorf. Just one month later, on 1 April 1974, this enlarged community was dissolved and integrated into the city Witt rings.

North of Ohrdorf is an inhabited windmill.