Aurich

Aurich is the county seat of the district of Aurich in Ostfriesland within the northwest of Lower Saxony. Aurich is the second largest metropolis of East Frisian - both after population and after the region behind Wittmund. With 41,854 inhabitants Aurich is an independent municipality and is led within the spatial making plans of the use of a Lower Saxony as middle. Aurich became within the route of the centuries successively the house of the East Frisian princes, the seat of the Prussian, Hanoverian and once more Prussian administrations Ostfrieslands.

Even after the Second World War, the town becomes the seat of the same government district till its merger with the executive district of Oldenburg and the district of Osnabruck to the administrative district Weser Ems based totally in Oldenburg, which became dissolved in 2004. From this way of life feeds the self-identify Aurichs as the secret capital of East Frisia. The records of Aurich may be traced back to the thirteenth century. The unique settlement Archive is cited for the first time in a Frisian prison record from the yr 1276, the Brokmerbrief. The oldest settlement hint within the Aurich center town dates from the 9th century and became observed in 2009 during excavations.