Oldenbrok

Oldenbrok Ovelgönne municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 3 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 19 ″ E
Height :	0 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	26939
Primaries :	04480, 04483
Location of Oldenbrok in Lower Saxony

Oldenbrok is a place in the municipality of Ovelgönne in the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony . The place is located southwest of the core town Ovelgönne on the B 211 and on the former Oldenburg – Brake railway line .

The districts of Oldenbrok-Mittelort, Oldenbrok-Niederort, Oldenbrok-Altendorf and Oldenbrok-Bahnhof belong to Oldenbrok. The municipality of Oldenbrok existed until 1974 and was dissolved as part of the regional reform. Since then, Oldenbrok has been part of the municipality of Ovelgönne.

history

The oldest still existing building in Oldenbrok is likely to be the Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in Oldenbrok-Mittelort. It is a single-nave, subsequently plastered brick building and was built in 1619.

A bog eruption from the night of November 8th to 9th 1764 is documented for Oldenbrok . It caused severe damage to the surrounding grain fields and buried drainage ditches .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Heinrich Schütte (1863–1939), teacher and local history researcher, is considered a pioneer of marshland research on the North Sea
Johannes Georg Heinrich Volkers (1878–1944), Lutheran theologian and regional bishop

Connected to the place

Johann Friedrich Trentepohl (* 1748; † 1806 in Oldenbrok) was a German Lutheran clergyman and botanist

traffic

With the stations Ovelgönne, Strückhausen, Oldenbrok and Großenmeer, today's municipal area was connected to the Oldenburg – Brake railway line, which has now been closed, from 1896 to 1976 .

Oldenbrok is on the B 211 .

Web links

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