Uhry a small village that is part of the city of
Königslutter
Königslutter am Elm is a town in the district of Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Geography
It is located on the northeastern slopes of the Elm hill range, within the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park, about east of Brunswick, west of the distric ...
,
Lower Saxony, Germany. It lies close to the mountain range of Dorm and is about 35 km east of
Braunschweig. The village is on
Bundesautobahn 2
is an autobahn in Germany that connects the Ruhr area in the west to Berlin in the east. The A 2 starts at the junction with the A3 near the western city of Oberhausen, passes through the north of the Ruhr valley, through the Münsterland ...
(motorway) between
Hanover and
Berlin. Uhry has 144 residents (2021).
Facilities
Uhry has a small chapel, the Evangelische Freikirche. There is also a sports club, which citizens share with the neighboring village of
Beienrode
Beienrode-im-Gartetal is a village in the municipality (''Gemeinde'') Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The nucleated village of 250 residents (as of December 31, 2005) is primarily agricultural. The village mayor is Marlene Hille. T ...
.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of Uhry was officially accepted by the district president of
Lüneburg in 1960. The background is green with a diagonal white stripe divided into two parts by a green line crossed by a diagonal wavy white stripe. In the angles of these are (top) an
acorn
The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera ''Quercus'' and '' Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains one seed (occasionally
two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne ...
, on each side are oak leaves, and (bottom) an ear of
wheat. The stripes represent the Uhrau stream and the Autobahn A2. The rest of the coat indicates that Uhry is surrounded by forests and arable land.
Sand extraction
A large
sand quarry lies in the northeast of Uhry. About 50 million years ago a
river delta existed there, and much grit and sand were deposited. The sands are almost 100 percent
quartz crystal and are used in the production of microchips.
Gallery
Image:Uhry Ortseingang.jpg, Place-name sign
Image:Uhry,LowerSaxony sand quarry.jpg, Sand quarry in Uhry, 1988
Image:Wappen Uhry.png, Coat of arms
References
External links
Official website of the city of Königslutter am Elm (in German)
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Villages in Lower Saxony