Ottenau

Ottenau City of Gaggenau
	Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 20 ′ 14 ″ E
Residents :	4881
Incorporation :	April 1, 1935
Postal code :	76571
Area code :	07225
Location of Ottenau in Baden-Württemberg
	Mercedes-Benz plant in Gaggenau with Ottenau in the foreground

Ottenau is a district of Gaggenau in the Baden-Württemberg district of Rastatt .

Location and transport links

Ottenau is located on both sides of the Murg in the northern Black Forest , directly south of the core city of Gaggenau and the Mercedes-Benz plant in Gaggenau , the largest industrial company in the Black Forest. The B 462 runs as a bypass road on the western and southern outskirts. The Murgtalbahn crosses the district to the right of the Murg and has a stop here.

history

Ottenau was first mentioned in 1243 and was the court of the Eberstein Counts in the Middle Ages . In 1894, Theodor Bergmann founded the Bergmann-Industriewerke , the forerunner of today's Mercedes-Benz plant, in the Ottenau district . The once independent town was incorporated into Gaggenau on April 1, 1935.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split of red and gold, in front a silver vine knife , behind two diagonally crossed, black raft hooks."

Cultural life

The cinema Merkur Film Center in Ottenau is the only remaining cinema Gaggenau. A sports club, a music club, various wooden mask groups and the OCC (Ottenauer Carnevals Club) contribute to social life in Ottenau. There is also a local group of the DRK and the DLRG, the Catholic and Protestant parishes offer a wide variety of offers.

Attractions

Catholic parish church of St. Jodocus, built 1904–1906 by Johannes Schroth .

St. Jodocus
St. Jodocus, interior

Son of the place

Theodor Hurrle (1919–1997), SPD member of the state parliament

Web links

Commons : Ottenau - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ottenau on the website of the city of Gaggenau

Individual evidence

^ City information for the city of Gaggenau . Edition 2017. p. 14 .
^ City of Gaggenau: Chronicle. ( Memento of February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 10, 2015.
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rastatt district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ Clemens Kieser, Karlfriedrich Ohr, Wolfgang Stopfel, Martin Walter: Art and cultural monuments in the Rastatt district and in Baden-Baden. Konrad-Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1599-5 , p. 192.

[1] City information for the city of Gaggenau . Edition 2017. p. 14 .

[2] City of Gaggenau: Chronicle. ( Memento of February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 10, 2015.

[3] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rastatt district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[kuk-4] Clemens Kieser, Karlfriedrich Ohr, Wolfgang Stopfel, Martin Walter: Art and cultural monuments in the Rastatt district and in Baden-Baden. Konrad-Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1599-5 , p. 192.