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Location of Ohne within Grafschaft Bentheim district
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| Coordinates: 52°16′00″N 07°16′00″E / 52.26667°N 7.26667°ECoordinates: 52°16′00″N 07°16′00″E / 52.26667°N 7.26667°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Lower Saxony | |
| District | Grafschaft Bentheim | |
| Municipal assoc. | Schüttorf | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Johann Ruschulte | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 9 km2 (3 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 40 m (130 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 587 | |
| • Density | 65/km2 (170/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 48465 | |
| Dialling codes | 05923 | |
| Vehicle registration | NOH | |
Ohne is a community in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Ohne lies between Nordhorn and Steinfurt on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia. The community belongs to the Joint Community (Samtgemeinde) of Schüttorf, which has its seat in the like-named town.
The community of Ohne in the southernmost and southeasternmost parts of the Joint Community of Schüttorf, shows a distinct, very compact village site and lies right on a ford on the river Vechte. With a self-contained village centre above the Vechte Valley, Ohne’s settlement development, unlike any other rural community’s, is characterized not by scattered locations but rather by an accumulation of homesteads and buildings. Even the scattered homesteads lie quite near the village itself with its church, play group and various other institutions typical of a village.
Beyond the village site, the municipal area is marked by widespread agricultural land (also places without farms) and in the westernmost part by woods that stretch to Bad Bentheim.
Ohne’s neighbours are Samern, Suddendorf, Brechte and Wettringen, the last two of which lie in Westphalia.
The area was already settled by the Old Stone Age. The village is Grafschaft Bentheim’s oldest. It was Frankish immigrants who established the village of “Oen” in Carolingian times.
On the edge of the site where the village’s original centre was, settlement spread outwards. The shape that the village has today was brought about not least of all by the Vechte Valley with its broad floodplain and, in the more recent past, by farmlands abutting the village site. The village’s name was first mentioned in 1213 in the monosyllabic form “On” (in German, a final -e is usually pronounced, and given the “schwa” sound, making the name “Ohne” two syllables).
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