Ottenberg (Betzenstein)

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Ottenberg
City of Betzenstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 33 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 521  (509-534)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 31  (1987)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 91282
Area code : 09244
The Ottenberg district of Betzenstein
The Ottenberg district of Betzenstein

Ottenberg is a Franconian hamlet in the west of the natural landscape unit Veldensteiner Forst , which belongs to Betzenstein .

geography

The village is one of 23 officially named districts of the town of Betzenstein in the south of Upper Franconia . It is located about three kilometers north-northwest of Betzenstein and is at an altitude of 521  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The first written mention of Ottenberg took place in 1119 under the name Ortenberc . As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , Ottenberg became an independent rural community with the second municipal edict in 1818, which also included the two villages of Höchstädt and Mergners and the hamlet of Kröttenhof . In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , the entire municipality of Ottenberg was incorporated into the city of Betzenstein at the beginning of 1972. In 1987 Ottenberg had 31 residents.

traffic

A community road connects the place with the federal highway 2 , which runs about 300 meters south of the outskirts, another one runs past the northern outskirts. This unpaved road leads from the west of Weidenhüll near Leienfels in an easterly direction to federal highway 2. Access to federal highway 9 is possible at the Weidensee junction about five kilometers to the east.

Attractions

Border stone on the northern outskirts of Ottenberg

In the Ottenberg corridor there are four listed boundary stones that marked the border of the high-jurisdiction districts between the rural areas of the imperial city of Nuremberg and the bishopric of Bamberg during the era of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .

literature

  • Josef Pfanner: District of Pegnitz . In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1965, ISBN 3-7696-9864-9 .
  • Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 293 ( digitized version ). Retrieved July 26, 2019
  2. ^ Ottenberg in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Ottenberg in the BayernAtlas , accessed on July 26, 2019
  4. ↑ Description of the location of Ottenberg on the website of the city of Betzenstein (PDF; 646 kB), accessed on July 26, 2019
  5. ^ 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. 697 .