Latitude 52.2167 Longitude 8.4333 Altitude (feet) 255

Wehringdorf Lower Saxony Deutschland [Germany] At the time when the Aschermann brothers traveled, Wehringdorf was located in the Kingdom of Hanover. (figure 3)

If one is living today in Wehringdorf, where would the consumer go to purchase small good or visit a hospital?

Wehingdorf

Buer - North 3.41km 2.1 mile

Melle - South 7.3 km 4.5 mile, Population = 46,417

Osnabruck - West, Population = 162,403

 

Wehringdorf as "plain ring village." An interesting name for a German village.  

"You may wonder where the name come from. It is believed that a man called WIRO settled here in ancient times. Wiro was a common West Saxon name (people only had one name in those days).

His clan was called after him : "Wiringe". The old Saxon name for village is "thorpe" (you can still find ...thorpes in Anglosaxony = England).

So Wiringthorpe is the village if the Wiring clan. Also spelled Weringtorpe, today Wehringdorf."

As points of reference, let’s use the world map that shows the general location of Wehringdorf and Cincinnati, Ohio. A person traveling today will probably travel via an airplane from Cincinnati to Osnabruck-Munster, Germany or from Cincinnati to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a relatively short and inexpensive ride to Osnaburck. As the crow flies, the Aschermann emigrants traveled 4244 miles/6827 km. (figure 2)

Buer is the location of the church that the Aschermann’s attended. Buer is the village from which many sons and daughters emigrated from when they went to the Western Hemisphere, e.g. Cincinnati, Ohio. The Buer webpages are a wealth of information about the region. Considering that it is a mere two miles from Wehringdorf, it is safe to assume that many of the pictures or information given about Buer can be generalized to Wehringdorf. (figure 4) (figure 6)

The land is flat which made it a good site for early farmers. Nearby are trees and forest which gave the people the wood for fuel and lumber. A problem that came from the early distribution of the land is that each person received “good” farming land, “mediocre” farm land and forest land. While good in theory and maybe appropriate for early agriculture, the result was that a farmer had several small fields that might be separated from each other. Farming, as a result, was not very efficient. In recent years land has been consolidated to make larger fields that then use modern equipment. Seen near Wehringdorf was a John Deer dealership that had machines that would be used on farms in the American Midwest. (figure 7) (figure 8) (figure 9)