Kirchohsen

Kirchohsen Municipality Emmerthal Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 52 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	71 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	3197
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	31860
Area code :	05155
Location of Kirchohsen in Lower Saxony
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Kirchohsen is a district of Emmerthal , a municipality in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony . The place is in the Weserbergland nature park . A road bridge for the L 424 and a railway bridge over the Weser lead from Kirchohsen to Hagenohsen . There is an access road to the Grohnde nuclear power plant, which is around 1 km southeast .

history

Ohsen, engraving by Matthäus Merian

Old names from Kirchohsen are around 1004 Osen, 1159 Osen, 1197 Oœen, 1226 Osen and circa 1237–47 Osen.

Under Ohsen, Merian wrote around 1650:

"This Princely Calenbergische Ampthauß / is half a mile away above Hameln / vff a weir or island / very funny and graceful / it has beautiful fields and Awen / and the Weser stream is very well and useful." a picture is attached.

Ohsen was the official seat until 1823.
Kirchohsen was one of 17 previously independent towns from which the Emmerthal community was formed on January 1, 1973 by the “Law on the Reorganization of the Communities in the Hameln Area”.

Place name

The historical documents in older times do not yet differentiate between Kirch-, Hagen- or Nordohsen. The basic form of Ohsen is “Usana”, in which one can see an old base “us-” and a word formation element “-n-”. "Us-" has the basic meaning "damp, wet, swampy".

education

• The elementary school in Kirchohsen is an open all-day school with special educational primary care.

societies

• Kirchohsen volunteer fire department

Religions

• Evangelical Petri Church
• Catholic Church of the Holy Family

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Hans-Otto Budde (* 1948), Lieutenant General ret. D. of the army and inspector of the army in the Bundeswehr

In the media

The town serves as a main venue for the US-American - British war film Heart of Steel in the year, 2014.

Web links

Wikisource: Ohsen in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)

• Hameln district and Hameln-Pyrmont district ; therein: 46. ​​Kirchohsen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographia and actual description of the Vornembsten Stäte, Schlösser also other places and places in which Hertzogthümer [n] Braunschweig and Lüneburg, and those belonging [n] Grafschafften Herrschafften und Landen , Franckfurt am Main 1654/1658, p. 164
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 194 .
3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Kirchohsen primary school
5. ↑ Voluntary Fire Brigade Kirchohsen ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Petri-Kirchengemeinde Ohsen
7. ^ Battle of Kirchohsen. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .