Ohrdorf

Ohrdorf City of Wittingen Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	86  (80-94)  m
Area :	12.43 km²
Residents :	397  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1974
Postal code :	29378
Area code :	05839
Location of Ohrdorf in Wittingen

Laurentius Church of Ohrdorf

Windmill north of Ohrdorf

The village of Ohrdorf is located in Lower Saxony in the Gifhorn district and belongs to the city of Wittingen .

history

Ohrdorf was mentioned for the first time in 1112 as Adorp (document book of the Hochstift Halberstadt, I, 136), as Ordorpe after 1209 (in the Halberstadt bishops' chronicles , the Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium , created between 1208 and 1215 ). Other medieval place name forms were Orthorp , Wenedisches Ordorp , Ordorp apud Wittinge , Ordorppe and Ordorff.

The village owes its name to the river Ohre , which rises near the village and flows north of Magdeburg into the Elbe . During the GDR era, the inner-German border ran in the middle of the Ohre not far from the village. The closest place on the East German side was Haselhorst , it was no longer directly accessible from Ohrdorf from the beginning of the 1950s; the road connection was not restored until 1990.

On March 1, 1974, the communities Boitzenhagen , Plastau , Radenbeck , Schneflingen , Teschendorf and Zasenbeck were incorporated into the community of Ohrdorf. Just one month later, on April 1, 1974, this enlarged community was dissolved and integrated into the city of Wittingen.

politics

	CDU	total
2016	5	5 seats

The local mayor is Christian Dalibor ( CDU ).

Culture and sights

• The Laurentius Church, built in 1235, is a stone church and has a Gothic winged altar from 1470. According to legend, the altar was intended for a church in Wittingen. The car that transported the altar had a broken wheel in Ohrdorf, which the people of Ohrdorf took advantage of to get the driver drunk and to move the altar into their own church. The pulpit dates from 1700, the ceiling paintings from 1711.

• There is an inhabited windmill north of Ohrdorf , which was built in 1867 as a brick-built tower dutchman.

literature

• Jürgen Rund: Historical index of the Gifhorn district . Hahn, Hanover 1996 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. 30 - Geschichtliches Ortverzeichnis von Niedersachsen. 5), pp. 167-169.
• Albert Almstedt: The church in Ohrdorf ( large architectural monuments , booklet 357). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984.
• Marion Kothe: Inner-village integration. On the importance of marriage and club life in the country . Schmerse, Göttingen 1995. (Contributions to folklore in Lower Saxony. Vol. 9: Series of publications by the Volkskundliche Kommission für Niedersachsen. Vol. 10) ISBN 3-926920-17-3 [Study based on a survey of ten couples in Erpensen, Suderwittingen, Ohrdorf and Schneflingen]
• Adolf Meyer: On the history of the Ohrdorfer windmill or how Vollhöfner Krüger pursued his interests . In: Calendar for the district of Gifhorn , year 1988, pp. 121–126.
• OHRDORF City of Wittingen. Ev. St. Laurentius Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 1016

Web links

Commons : Ohrdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures and area from wittingen.de (PDF file, 34 kB, last accessed on December 15, 2013)
2. ↑ Population figures from wittingen.de (PDF file, 34 kB, last accessed on August 27, 2019)
3. ^ Document book of the Halberstadt Monastery and its bishops . Edited by Gustav Schmidt. Part 1: Until 1236. Reprint of the 1883 edition. Zeller, Osnabrück 1965 (publications from the K. Prussian State Archives. 17), p. 136.
4. ^ Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium . Edited by Ludwig Weiland. In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica [27] Scriptores . T. 23, Hanover: Hahn 1874, pp. 78–123, here p. 92.
5. ↑ Jürgen Rund: Historical place of the Gifhorn district . Hahn, Hannover 1996 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. 30 - Historical Directory of Lower Saxony. 5), p. 167.
6. ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991 .
7. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 227 and 228 .
8. ↑ Ohrdorfer Mühle ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.