Osterode

Osterode, a town of Hanover, at the western base of the Harz Mountains, on the Söse, an affluent of the Leine, 30 miles by rail NW. of Nordhausen. Its church of St Giles (724; rebuilt 1578) contains the graves of the dukes of Grubenhagen, and there are also a fine town-hall, baths, large grain-stores, and cotton, woollen, and linen factories. Pop. 6435.—OSTERODE, in East Prussia, on the Drewenz, 77 miles NE. of Thorn, has a castle of the Teutonic knights (1270) and iron manufactures. Pop. 7123.