Otterswang (Bad Schussenried)

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Otterswang
Otterswang coat of arms
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 564 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 88427
Area code : 07583
Otterswang (Photo at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives)

Otterswang is a district with around 800 inhabitants in the town of Bad Schussenried in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

The village is about two kilometers south of Bad Schussenried.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1083 as "Otolveswanc". Noble free from Otterswang are mentioned from 1083 to 1187. Some of the successors were the Counts of Aichelberg , who named a knight Heinrich von Otterswang as their ministerial in 1237 .

A part of the village had the lords of Gundelfingen held that the 1269 half of the castle and village Diocese of Konstanz in exchange for other rights to feudal auftrugen. Most of the village came to the taverns of Winterstetten-Schmalegg in the 13th century , which can be found here as early as 1243.

The lost castle (1269 castrum ) was on the same level as the hamlet of Burg . In 1380 Hermann Schenk sold the castle and village to Heinrich von Emerkingen . From this the place went to Sophie von Stubenberg in 1381 , whose heirs left the property to the Schussenried monastery in 1420 .

Through the secularization of the monastery in 1803 Otterswang came to the Counts of Sternberg-Manderscheid and, due to the mediatization , was under the rule of Württemberg from 1806 .

The municipality of Otterswang belonged to the Württemberg Oberamt Waldsee . During the district reform in 1938 , the community was incorporated into the Biberach district.

As part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg on January 1, 1972, the Otterswang community with Atzenberg , Burg, Fünfhäuser, Hopferbach, Laimbach and the Schwaigfurt homestead was incorporated into the city of Bad Schussenried.

Cultural monuments

Parish Church of St. Oswald

See also: List of cultural monuments in Otterswang

See also

Web links

Commons : Otterswang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 525 and 544 .