Orsoy, Germany

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 <a href="/facts/Borough/3L4c8h7s">boroughs</a> of the <a href="/facts/North_Rhine-Westphalia/0QmCWxjo">North Rhine-Westphalian</a> town of <a href="/facts/Rheinberg/JD0Myt9S">Rheinberg</a> on the left bank of the <a href="/facts/Lower_Rhine/GjlXz7jq">Lower Rhine</a> in the <a href="/facts/Wesel_(district)/Ezz3G9l0">Kreis Wesel</a> district. 
The word Orsoy, pronounced Oschau or Orsau means "horse pasture" (Rossaue). Orsoy itself was in the <a href="/facts/Middle_Ages/RqzEKB9v">Middle Ages</a> a powerful fortified town with high walls and four gates. Although much of the fortifications were destroyed by <a href="/facts/Louis_XIV/2LseeIlj">Louis XIV</a> in 1672 and some remains later in the <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">Second World War</a>, a tower, circa 50 percent of the walls and part of the moat remain today giving some indication of the scale of the fortifications.
The borough of Orsoy includes the Orsoyerberg district, as well as the <a href="/facts/Hamlet_(place)/tmS0fHpM">hamlets</a> of Drießen, Plank, Hasenfeld and Milchplatz.

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Orsoy, Germany