Ottenhausen (Weissensee)

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Ottenhausen
City of Weißensee
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 151 m
Residents : 330  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Postal code : 99631
Primaries : 03636, 036374

Ottenhausen has been part of Weißensee in Thuringia since 1994 . It lies between Weißensee and Greussen on the Saxon Helbe in the Thuringian Basin .

history

The first documentary mention of the place took place in 874 as "Uoteneshusa" in the Fulda tithe directory. The Benedictine convent Ottenhausen was one of the oldest in Thuringia, grew through several donations and existed until the Reformation. The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Weißensee until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Weissensee in the administrative district of Erfurt the province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

Parts of today's village church, such as the Romanesque twin towers, are the former monastery church . There was a manor on the site of the former monastery . It was managed by the tenant Zeller until the end of the Second World War. The farmers and farm workers from Ottenhausen who were drafted for military service were replaced by Polish “foreign workers”.

East of the village, next to the road to Weißensee, a large American bomber plane exploded in 1944 after an attempted emergency landing . According to the notes of the later innkeeper Harry Neblung, who was a nine-year-old eyewitness, this happened on September 27, 1944. The crew members were burned.

Ottenhausen was occupied by US troops in April 1945 without a fight and handed over to the Red Army in July . This made it part of the Soviet Zone from 1949 until the reunification of the GDR in 1990 . The manor was expropriated without compensation in 1945 and has since belonged to the disposal of the VEG Wasserthaleben. In addition, an LPG was founded as part of the forced collectivization of farmers .

Attractions

Evangelical Church of St. Kilian, twin towers (2011)
St. Kilian from the south (2020)
  • The village church “St. Kilian ”with Romanesque twin towers from the 12th century is an architectural monument. The church stands on the site of a former Benedictine convent. Between the towers there is a room with two bells. The nave was renewed in the Baroque style in 1717 and has valuable interior fittings, most of which were made possible thanks to a testamentary 1000 thaler donation from the electoral chamber councilor Albrecht Christian von Kromsdorf (1626–1684). There are heavily weathered sandstone tombstones on the church wall. A particularly valuable, cross-shaped grave monument was saved by citizens. Most of the historical gravestones were disposed of in a gravel pit during the GDR era. The church was closed by the building authorities in 1970 and, after security and renovation work, was re-allowed for church services after the political change. A support association takes care of the preservation of the church. The roof was completely renovated by autumn 2013. The funding was shared by the regional church, the KiBa Foundation ( Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany ) and the State of Thuringia.
  • War memorial in front of the church for the 23 fallen and missing soldiers of the First World War and a memorial plaque with the names of the 40 soldiers who did not return home from the Second World War.
  • Former manor from the 18th century, with a clever and attractive grouping of the residential and farm buildings, the latter, however, partly in a state of dilapidation.

Residents

Ottenhausen had 599 inhabitants in 1939, after the Second World War over 1000 due to the influx of displaced persons, and in 2013 it still had 330 inhabitants.

societies

  • The Ottenhausen men's choir from 1670 is one of the oldest choirs in Thuringia. Every five years there is a large singers' meeting in town.
  • Friends of St. Kilian Ottenhausen eV
  • SV Ottenhausen 1921: football club
  • Kirmesburschenverein Ottenhausen eV
  • Ottenhäuser Blasmusikanten eV

Surroundings

  • To the south of the village, east of the Käferberg, there is the “Wasserschlösschen” within a group of trees. It is a multi- tower miniature castle from 1904, which was built next to an elevated tank . This used to be a storage facility with Helbe water for Weissensee, but has been supplying the town with Ohra dam water for a long time - and renewed as a network distribution station in 2004.
  • The attractive landscape in itself is dominated by the “Ottenhausen wind farm” southwest of the village on the Käferberg, with 8 large wind turbines that went into operation in 2007. A citizens' initiative had formed in the village against the project within the framework of the state funding for "renewable energies", but this was unsuccessful. From the Käferberg to the west you can see a number of over 30 wind turbines (2009).

Personalities

  • Albrecht Christian Rotth (* 1651 in Ottenhausen; † 1701 in Leipzig): Lutheran controversial theologian and preacher, teacher and poet
  • Hermann-Josef Kuhna (* 1944 in Ottenhausen): painter, lives in Düsseldorf, professor at the Münster Art Academy

Bike path

The ADFC bike tour Greußen-Weißensee-Leubingen leads through Ottenhausen.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900
  2. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Thuringia . tape 8 . VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 280 .
  3. ↑ Harry Neblung: The fate of the Saxon Helbe in the district of Ottenhausen . Handwritten memories. Accessed by Ursula Neblung, Ottenhausen. 2020