Roringen

High on a hill, it is separated from the city proper some 51⁄2 km to the south-west by farmlands and part of the Göttingen Forest.

During the often turbulent Late Middle Ages and the sixteenth century, the village suffered the depredations of war, being largely destroyed on three occasions (1466, 1485 and 1552).

[1] The village abuts a large mixed deciduous forest on Menzelberg (hill) while dropping off onto farm-land in the Luttertal (valley) below, in the direction of Göttingen proper.

[3] Roringen retains its character as an independent farming village while also being a bedroom community for commuters that work in the city.

[13] The Roringer Warte, an outlying defense/watch tower for Göttingen built in 1408 [14] at an elevation of about 325 m amsl, lies in the woods outside the village proper, in the direction of Waake.