Oetter

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Oetter
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Oettern highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 11 ° 21'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Weimar Country
Management Community : Mellingen
Height : 245 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.61 km 2
Residents: 119 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99438
Area code : 036453
License plate : AP, APD
Community key : 16 0 71 071
Association administration address: Karl-Alexander-Str. 134a
99441 Mellingen
Website : www.oettet.de
Mayoress : Colleen Michler
Location of the community of O possibly in the Weimarer Land district
Am Ettersberg Nauendorf Vollersroda Hetschburg Frankendorf Ilmtal-Weinstraße Ilmtal-Weinstraße Ettersburg Rannstedt Obertrebra Ballstedt Hammerstedt Oettern Eberstedt Kleinschwabhausen Wiegendorf Kiliansroda Bad Sulza Mechelroda Kapellendorf Grammetal Großheringen Lehnstedt Umpferstedt Buchfart Döbritschen Rittersdorf Hohenfelden Neumark Niedertrebra Tonndorf Schmiedehausen Großschwabhausen Mellingen Klettbach Magdala Kranichfeld Apolda Bad Berka Blankenhainmap
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Oetter is a municipality in the south of the Weimarer Land district and part of the Mellingen administrative community .

geography

The place lies in a meander of the Ilm on the federal highway 87 between Bad Berka and Weimar . The Kaitsch rises to the south . The Ilm valley has carved its way deep into the shell limestone in the vicinity of Oetter, creating a scenic valley.

history

Evangelical Church of Oettel
Stone arch bridge over the Ilm from 1856

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1376 in a document from the knight Rudolf von Kühnhausen for Berka Monastery. Oetter suffered badly from constant floods. From the beginning of the 19th century, the place was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and after 1945 with the state of Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR .

Attractions

  • Village church Oettern
  • Cemetery with gravesite for Soviet forced laborers
  • Monument ensemble of the town center
  • Watermill on the Ilm with a small mill museum
  • Ramparts of the Oetternburg
    It lies on a mountain spur to the right of the Ilm. A well-preserved rampart is still preserved to the west on the plateau that delimits the area. Finds point to the Neolithic and the Late Hallstatt or early La Tène period.

Personalities

  • Ernst Bauchspieß (also Severus Gastorius) (1646–1682), cantor and baroque composer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 200.

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