Immenrode

The place name belongs to the so-called Rodungsnamen and indicates that, as with many toponyms ending in -rode, was built on a plot of land, originally woods or heath, cleared to make room for cultivation or pasture. The suffix -rode stems from the Germanic verb ryddan, which means "to remove", "to clear" or "to rid". The prefix immen- is common in place names, field names and also in personal names. It likely recalls the name of the founder of the settlement, perhaps an Immo.^[1][2]

The village was first mentioned in 1086 in a document in which Emperor Henry IV transferred the Royal Palace of Werla to Bishop Udo of Hildesheim, along with villas Immenrothe et Jehthere (probably referring to Gitter near Salzgitter).^[1] In the Middle Ages, the Counts of Woldenberg, the Neuwerk monastery and Count Gerhard of Holstein-Itzehoe owned property here. Immenrode has been a church village since the Middle Ages; the Wöltingerode Abbey held the patronage for several centuries.

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