Rohrsheim

Rohrsheim City of Osterwieck Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 7 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	97 m above sea level NN
Residents :	670 (2010)
Incorporation :	September 11, 2003
Incorporated into:	Aue Fallstein
Postal code :	38836
Area code :	039426

Rohrsheim, aerial photo (2015)

Rohrsheim is a district of the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . The village is located about 20 kilometers (as the crow flies) northwest of Halberstadt on the L 78 road between Dedeleben and Hesse . The place has around 670 inhabitants.

history

Rohrsheim was first mentioned on August 6, 941 in a deed of gift from King Otto to the Moritz monastery in Magdeburg . At that time the place was called Rareshein in Herdaja ( Harzgau ) in the County of Thietmars. Rohrsheim belonged to the castle district of the Westerburg .

On July 14th, 1596, two and on May 12th, 1597 three other women from Rohrsheim were burned at the Westerburg in witch trials at the instigation of the bailiff Peregrinus Hünerkopf. Katharina Bernburg from Rohrsheim fled to Wernigerode , but was burned there on June 6, 1597 for alleged witchcraft . Another victim was the young Anna Meyer from Rohrsheim on August 13, 1597.

On September 11, 2003, Rohrsheim became part of the community of Aue-Fallstein , which merged with the other communities of the Osterwieck-Fallstein administrative community on January 1, 2010 to form the new town of Osterwieck.

Others

The Evangelical Lutheran parish has around 130 members.
The community's clubs include the sports club SG Germania Rohrsheim von 1892 eV , the Schützengesellschaft 1885 zu Rohrsheim eV and the men's choir Concordia Rohrsheim.
In Rohrsheim is a wind turbine of the type Enercon E-112 with 125 m hub height and 114 meter rotor diameter, which was one of the highest wind turbines in Saxony-Starting at start-up.

literature

Ewald Seyffarth: family book . The old families of the village of Rohrsheim for the period from 1673 to 1777. Copy of the manuscript . Rhoden 1967. 900 families, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 460
Gerhard Reiche : Family book for the village of Rohrsheim for the period from 1673 onwards. Copy of the manuscript . Osterwieck 1982. 3540 families, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 460

Web links

Individual evidence

[1] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

[2] StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010