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4 unusual facts about Osterode


Friedrich August Wolf

During the period 1779 to 1783 Wolf taught, first at Ilfeld, then at Osterode.

Hahnemühle

On August 30, 1769, the Speiss family sold the mill to Peter Johann Jacob Heinrich Andrae from Osterode for 4500 Reichsthaler.

Osterode

Ostróda (Osterode in Ostpreußen) in Poland (part of Germany until 1945)

Rammelsberg

The analysis of unsmelted pieces of ore and slag found during archaeological excavations between 1981 and 1985 at Düna (near Osterode) in the South Harz indicates mining activity at the Rammelsberg in the 3rd century AD.


Bundesstraße 243

The metalled artificial road (Chaussee) between Seesen and Osterode was built between 1785 and 1795 as an extension of the Frankfurt Road and known as the Thuringian Road (Thüringer Straße).

Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Other branches that did not have full sovereignty existed in the Dannenberg, Harburg, Gifhorn, Bevern, Osterode, Herzberg, Salzderhelden and Einbeck.

Echte

In the Middle Ages, it served as a trade node on the east-west road between Einbeck and Osterode and the north-south road from Northeim to Seesen.

Liesgau

Its southern bound is near the town of Duderstadt and its northern bound is near Osterode, while its western bound is near the River Leine and its eastern bound corresponds to the present-day eastern border of Lower Saxony.

Ostróda

The knights named the new town Osterode after Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany (now a sister city with Ostróda).

Söse

It flows in that direction through Osterode-Dorste before entering the westward-flowing Rhume between the villages of Berka and Elvershausen, both part of the borough of Katlenburg-Lindau in the district of Northeim.


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