Oettersdorf

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Orla district
Management Community :	Lake district
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.34 km 2
Residents:	843 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07907
Area code :	03663
License plate :	SOK, LBS, PN, SCZ
Community key :	16 0 75 076
Address of the municipal administration:	Schleizer Str. 17 07907 Oettersdorf
Website :	www.oettersdorf.de
Mayor :	Henry Carl ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Oettersdorf in the Saale-Orla district

In the town

Oettersdorf is a municipality in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . It is the seat of the Lake District administrative community .

geography

The areas of the Oettersdorf district now border the north-western outskirts of Schleiz. They are located on a slight slope and on an elevated plateau of the southeast Thuringian slate mountains. These soils have a high proportion of fine earth and a high humus content. Under the climatic conditions they are a good prerequisite for high yields.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities are (clockwise) Löhma , the city of Schleiz , Görkwitz and Pörmitz .

history

The municipality took the mention of the place name Otthensdorph in a document dated June 24, 1302 on the occasion of the 700th anniversary celebration in 2002, but it is questionable whether the village mentioned was actually today's Oettersdorf. More recent sightings gave the first documentary evidence for September 24, 1291.

In 1525, in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and in 1806 there was great war-related destruction of the place. In 1882 there were 708 inhabitants. On July 2, 1945 Oettersdorf was occupied by the Soviet troops and some citizens were deported. The resettlers increased the population from around 750 to over 1,000 between 1945 and 1946.

In 1923 the leaseholder Paul Dönitz managed the domain with 171 hectares of business area from Reuss younger line. They were expropriated according to the laws of the victorious powers of World War II. Poor farmers and resettlers received the land and the inventory. Later a machine and tractor station was set up. After that, the agricultural institutions were subject to the successful development of agriculture in East Germany.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31st each) :

1994: 908 1995: 889 1996: 907 1997: 936 1998: 940 1999: 936

2000: 934 2001: 919 2002: 915 2003: 896 2004: 903 2005: 876

2006: 868 2007: 866 2008: 869 2009: 865 2010: 850 2011: 840

2012: 819 2013: 831 2014: 828 2015: 856 2016: 872 2017: 861

2018: 862

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest employer is HBS Elektrobau GmbH with around 500 employees. Other companies have settled both in the center of the village and in the industrial area north of the village.

As a result of the transformation of agriculture, the farmers found new ways after the fall of the Wall. Three resettlers and the Landwirtschaftliche AG cultivate the land. The Landwirtschaftliche AG keeps around 1,300 dairy cows , which together produce 12 million liters of milk per year. The AG also operates a biogas plant with an output of 570 kWh of electricity. The biogas is obtained from the cattle manure of the dairy cattle facility as well as manure and some corn spoil.

The agricultural community is close to the federal highway 9 .

Sights and culture

Churches

• Laurentiuskirche
• Martinskirche

Regular events

• The Oettersdorfer Open Air Festival has been held every July since 1992.

Memorial plaque to Paul Dietrich and Alfred Lichtenstein

Special

From May 1944 to May 1945, the master saddler Paul Dietrich housed his comrade in the war, the Jewish master tailor Alfred Lichtenstein from Apolda , when he was supposed to be deported to an extermination camp. He hid it at risk of death. In 2001 he was posthumously awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem .

Web links

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

• Oettersdorf (with a detailed timetable)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Manfred Graf: Organization of the cooperative plant production with a high proportion of grassland in the southeast Thuringian slate mountains. Shown at the KOG "Lobenstein". 1970, (Jena, University, dissertation, 1970; typed).
3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 215.
4. ↑ Jürgen Gruhle : Black Book of Land Reform Thuringia. Retrieved from the Internet on June 16, 2011.
5. ^ Paul Dietrich in the Yad Vashem database