Ohrum

Ohrum is a municipality of the velvet municipality Oderwald ( based in Börßum ) in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony.

Geography

Ohrum is located a few kilometers south of Wolfenbüttel on the eastern edge of the forest, Or. It is located on the western shore of the Oker ( southern tributary of the Aller) and is located approximately 5.5 kilometers north of Börßum.

History

Today's 580- soul village has a permanent place in history. One reason is the Okerfurt, who has been in the area of ​​present-day village and part of the all-important " Deitwegs " (also known as Hellweg ) was. The Deitweg was one of the oldest trade routes, from the Rhine to the Elbe. He ran from Cramme through the woods or over the Schmiedeweg and the Church Square, to Okerniederung. Here crossed the ancient peoples street from the Rhine to the Elbe, the Oker and there are important decisive battles took place. Since Ohrum was first documented in 747, together with Schoningen ( as " Orhaim " ), it is considered one of the oldest towns in Lower Saxony.

The importance Ohrums strengthened in 1022, was at a time when Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, local lord. Up to Hildesheimer pin feud in the 16th century it belonged to the Bishopric of Hildesheim, then temporarily to the Duchy of Brunswick and after the Thirty Years' War to 1803 back to the Bishopric of Hildesheim.

Policy

Parish council

The council, which was elected on 10 September 2006 is made up as follows:

• SPD 5 seats
• UWG 4 seats

(As at municipal election held on September 10, 2006 )

Coat of arms

With its straight longitudinal and transverse corrugated bar it shows the intersection of a country path with a waterway - at the same time the cross stands for the first documentary mentioned local lords and the already mentioned 1022 local Church. The sheet is testimony to the survival instincts of the community, on the other hand belonging to the municipality or forest. The red and yellow colors correspond to both the Hildesheimer pen colors as well as the Brunswick Ancestral Arms.

Blazon: In a red lined with a red leaf golden (yellow ) cross with scalloped transom.

Culture and sights

• A church of Ohrum first mentioned in 1022 in the founding charter of the Michaelis monastery of Hildesheim.
• At this place was with the Okerfurth a very important part of the commercial and military road from the Rhine to the Elbe, and between Braunschweig, Magdeburg and Berlin.

View of the place

Memorial stone to Sachsen baptism by Charlemagne 780 on Vadder hole