Ottendorf an der Rittschein

Ottendorf an der Rittschein
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: FF)
Surface:	14.27 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 3 '  N , 15 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 2 '56 "  N , 15 ° 54' 2"  E
Height :	297  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,555 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8312, 8262
Area code :	03114
Community code :	6 22 32
Address of the municipal administration:	Ottendorf an der Rittschein 132 8312 Ottendorf an der Rittschein
Website:	www.ottendorf.com
politics
Mayor :	Josef Haberl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	13 1 1 13 1 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 1 GREEN : 1
Location of Ottendorf an der Rittschein in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Parish church in Ottendorf
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Local chapel in Walkersdorf

Ottendorf an der Rittschein is a municipality with 1555 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria .

geography

Ottendorf an der Rittschein is located in Styria.

Community structure

The community consists of four cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2018):

• Breitenbach (148.97  ha )
• Ottendorf (617.45 ha)
• Walkersdorf (360.51 ha)
• Ziegenberg (300.49 ha)

The municipality comprises four localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

• Breitenbach (91)
• Ottendorf an der Rittschein (875)
• Walkersdorf (351)
• Goat Mountain (238)

Incorporations

On January 1, 1969, the communities of Walkersdorf ( Feldbach district ) and Ottendorf bei Gleisdorf ( Weiz district ) were assigned to the Fürstenfeld district administration and merged to form the new community of Ottendorf an der Rittschein.

history

Ottendorf comes from "dorf des otto". The places in the municipality were founded by Bavarian settlers in the 10th century. Ottendorf is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1318 in the fief book of the Bishop of Seckau.

From 1850 Ziegenberg was an independent municipality in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld or Feldbach district, while Breitenbach belonged to the administrative municipality of Walkersdorf in the judicial district and Feldbach district from 1850. It was not until 1935 that Ottendorf was separated from Oed (today's municipality of Markt Hartmannsdorf ) and became its own municipality.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Ottendorf an der Rittschein

• Parish church hl. Helena

politics

mayor

Mayor of the community is Josef Haberl from the ÖVP.

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Ewald Deimel (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Alois Flechl (ÖVP).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 12 mandates ÖVP
• 02 mandates SPÖ
• 01 mandate FPÖ
• 01 mandate The Greens

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	732	72	12	726	70	12	595	59	9	554	61	10
SPÖ	097	10	01	172	17th	02	240	24	4th	171	19th	03
FPÖ	084	08th	01	056	05	00	039	04th	0	090	10	01
The Greens Ottendorf	097	10	01	080	08th	01	134	13	2	088	10	01
Eligible voters	1,320			1,269			1,216			1,097
voter turnout	77%			82%			83%			84%

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from June 1, 1990.

Blazon (coat of arms description):

"A shield made of red and gold, inside a crossed cross with a mix of colors, from each of whose arms a clover grows, in the first field to the right, in the second up, in the third down and in the fourth field to the left."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 2019: Josef Haberl, Mayor of Ottendorf an der Rittschein 2005–2019

Personalities associated with the community

• Heike Manhart (* 1993), soccer player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City council election 2020 - results Ottendorf an der Rittschein. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip  (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Municipality of Ottendorf an der Rittschein: Municipal Council , accessed on May 24, 2015.
5. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 41, 1991, p. 34
6. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/hartberg-fuerstenfeld/c-eople/josef-haberl-zum-ehrenbuerger-von-ottendorf-ernannt_a3540522 , accessed on September 13, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Ottendorf an der Rittschein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62232 - Ottendorf on the Rittschein. Community data, Statistics Austria .