Orsoy | |
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 Coat of arms | |
The borough of Orsoy within the town of Rheinberg.  | |
  Orsoy  Orsoy | |
| Coordinates: 51°31′28″N 6°41′12″E / 51.52444°N 6.68667°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| District | Wesel |
| Town | Rheinberg |
| Area | |
| • Total | 14.75 km2 (5.70 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Total | 4,192 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (740/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 47495 |
| Dialling codes | 02844 |
Orsoy [ˈɔʁzaʊ̯], from approximately 1273 to 1974 an independent town, most recently within the Kreis Moers district, is today a district (officially a residential area) and one of four boroughs of the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Rheinberg on the left bank of the Lower Rhine in the Kreis Wesel district.[2]
The word Orsoy, pronounced Oschau or Orsau means "horse pasture" (Rossaue). Orsoy itself was in the Middle Ages[3] a powerful fortified town with high walls and four gates. Although much of the fortifications were destroyed by Louis XIV in 1672 and some remains later in the Second World War, a tower, circa 50 percent of the walls and part of the moat remain today giving some indication of the scale of the fortifications.[4][5][6][7]
The borough of Orsoy includes the Orsoyerberg district, as well as the hamlets of Drießen, Plank, Hasenfeld and Milchplatz.
- ^ Statistiken, Stadt Rheinberg. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ "Start". Orsoy.net. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
- ^ "Verein zur Erhaltung historischer Gebäude und Örtlichkeiten in Orsoy e.V." Historisches-orsoy.de. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
- ^ Heinz van de Linde: Die unendlich lange Egerstraße. Erinnerungen an die kleine Stadt Orsoy, (Books on Demand, 2005).
- ^ Heinz Janssen: Orsoy in alten Ansichten, Verlag Europäische Bibliothek Zaltbommel (Niederlande) 1985,
- ^ Emil Stein: Geschichtliches über die evangelisch-reformierte Gemeinde Orsoy, Spaarmann, Moers 1893.
- ^ Johann Heinrich Schürmann: Altes und Neues aus Orsoy, Selbstverlag, Orsoy, 1849.