AURICH, a town of Hanover, Germany, chief town of the district of East Friesland, on the Ems-Jade canal, 18m. N.W. of Emden. Pop. It is built in the Dutch style and lies in a sandy but fertile plain, surrounded by promenades re placing the old fortifications. The palace of the counts of East Friesland is now government offices. Close by is the Upstalls boom, the hill of oath and liberty, where every year at Whitsuntide representatives of the seven Frisian coastlands used to assemble.