Niederotterbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '  N , 8 ° 3'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Bad Bergzabern
Height :	151 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.58 km 2
Residents:	348 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	97 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76889
Area code :	06340
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 056
Association administration address:	Königstrasse 61 76887 Bad Bergzabern
Website :	www.niederotterbach.de
Mayor :	Rudi Schwöbel
Location of the local community Niederotterbach in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

Niederotterbach is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Bergzabern community .

geography

Niederotterbach is located near the French border on the eponymous Otterbach in the Palatinate wine-growing region between the Palatinate Forest and the Bienwald . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Dierbach , Vollmersweiler , Steinfeld , Kapsweyer and Oberotterbach .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 992. Until the 18th century it belonged to the Guttenberg rule .

In the 1930s Niederotterbach was added to the Bergzabern district. With the territorial reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, which began in the second half of the 1960s, Niederotterbach was incorporated into the newly created "Landau-Bad Bergzabern" district on June 7, 1969, together with most of the communities in the Bergzabern district, which in turn became part of January 1, 1978 was renamed "District of Southern Wine Route".

religion

Catholic Church of St. Nicholas

Protestant church

At the end of 2013, 50.0 percent of the population were Catholic and 25.8 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Niederotterbach consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Rudi Schwöbel became mayor of Niederotterbach in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 87.43%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided and split above, above right in black a red armored, tongued and crowned lion, above left with silver and blue ruffles, below in silver over silver water on green ground a red otter , holding a blue fish in its mouth. "
	Crest Reason: It was founded in 1952 by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior approved and goes back to a court seal from the year 1599. The Palatine Lion and the Wittelsbach diamonds recall the former membership of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and the otter symbolizes speaking the place name.

Partnerships

A partnership has been maintained with Littenheim in Alsace since 1991. For this reason, the new street built in 2002 was named “Littenheimer Ring”.

traffic

Niederotterbach is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association . The Südwestbus lines 527 and 544, which offer connections to Schweighofen and the Bad Bergzabern and Kandel train stations, stop in town on weekdays . The nearest train station is Steinfeld (Palatinate) on the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn Neustadt an der Weinstrasse - Winden (Palatinate) - Wissembourg , about 2 km south.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Niederotterbach

House on the corner

Web links

Commons : Niederotterbach  - Collection of Images

• Niederotterbach
• Literature about Niederotterbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Gerhard Sommer: On Case II: Which local chiefs in the Bad Bergzabern community are running again. Die Rheinpfalz, October 1, 2018, accessed on April 22, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Bergzabern, Verbandsgemeinde, 14th line of results. Retrieved April 22, 2020 . 
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .